As you can imagine, the deeper the earthquake goes, the more of the energy is attenuated or spread out as it goes toward the surface.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

So I've sort of just spread out what we have as the second row here, graphed against the ionization energy.

所以我将第二行的情况,在这里展了，纵坐标是电离能。

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They are diffuse,dispersed,spread out instead of concentrated the way that fossil energy was.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Fresh, youthful energy spread throughout the area.

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Certainly, Asia's emphasis on work and economic development leaves little excess energy and capital to spread artistic achievement.

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Put another way, residential heating and air conditioning constitute 11.88 percent of the U.S. energy budget: cars only account for 8.9 percent. (see spread sheets 2.2 and 2.6) Worse, a good portion of that energy is wasted: lights get left on, air conditioners churn when you are on vacation, sleeping notebooks suck vampire power.

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