Western countries continue to rely heavily on coal-fired power plants built decades ago with outdated, inefficient technology that burn a lot of coal and emit considerable amounts of carbon dioxide.

西方依然对几十年前建成的低效燃煤电站很是依赖，但是这种技术耗煤量大、排放温室气体多。

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And instead of grafting technology onto existing, inefficient processes, as often happens in America, Indian providers build their model around it.

与美国移植到现有的技术，效率低下的流程不同，印度医保提供者在它的周围建立模型。

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Smart grid technology is a moniker for an effort to update the nation's antiquated electrical grid, which experts say is inefficient, prone to failure and vulnerable to cyber sabotage.

专家说，智能网技术名字的意思是为了更新国家电网的陈旧，名字的意思效率低下，容易失败，容易受到网络的破坏。

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All that providing subsidy now does is lock people into expensive and inefficient technology.

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Because of inefficient technology (like various, point solutions), many HR professionals are forced to spend much of their time on administrative tasks, rather than strategic HR initiatives.

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Put another way, it is the difference between supporting an inexpensive researcher who will discover more efficient, future solar panels and supporting a Solyndra at great expense to produce lots of inefficient, present-technology solar panels.

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