Sentences with phrase «efficient than building»

But such remedies are considered less efficient than building modern coal gasification plants with carbon burial.

District heating and cooling systems are an example of neighborhood - scale infrastructure that can improve energy efficiency because large plants are typically more efficient than building - based equipment.

For example you could just floor the accelerator and rapidly produce the energy required but there is no way for you to know whether that path is more efficient than building that energy over a longer period of time.

Wind - power engineers are developing new turbines that are far more efficient than those built just a decade ago.

ENERGY STAR certified homes are designed and constructed to be significantly more energy efficient than those built to code while lowering homeowner utility bills and providing superior comfort, quality, and durability.

New homes can also earn the ENERGY STAR, meaning they are at least 15 % more efficient than those built to code and include additional energy - saving features to deliver a performance advantage of up to 30 % compared to typical new homes.

Not exact matches

«Women can now make potentially life - defining decisions about how to proactively plan for the family they want to build and be more efficient in overcoming fertility difficulties they are experiencing using better, more personal, information than age,» founder Piraye Beim shared earlier this year in TechCrunch.

The settlers are hard at work, enthusiastically building DLs that are more energy efficient, more tailored to specific transaction types, and easier to use than Satoshi's blockchain.

Traditional marketing approaches are too - often based on intrusive push marketing and expensive advertising, rather than the cheaper, more efficient, and easier Guerrilla approaches of building relationships with influencers who will open new markets, being there and findable when customers look for what you offer, and letting customers nonintrusively pull themselves to you.

Economies of scale are significant: It's much more efficient, Levie said, for 500 engineers to build technology for 100,000 customers than for 10,000 customers.

Nevertheless, making such neighborhoods today is very hard, not only because we have largely lost the requisite cultural and social habits, but also because in most places zoning laws (which mandate segregated uses) and street design regulations (which are crafted exclusively to make streets efficient for cars rather than also safe for pedestrians) make it literally illegal to build such environments.

Bennett's understanding of the department and the more than 12,000 students it serves daily have helped him build the campus» dining services into a diverse, efficient and successful program.

Not only are Crane Drop Humidifiers stylish, but they are easy to use, whisper quiet, more efficient than a household light bulb, and include a built - in auto - shut - off feature that engages when the water tank is empty to ensure safety.

Governments and echelons of the public administration built almost exclusively on loyalty are of course far less efficient, more tolerant with incompetence, and more prone to corruption than meritocratic ones.

Non-stick and non-staining, the cooktop is easy to clean and more energy efficient than a traditional stovetop and a built - in turbo fan provides a quick cooldown.

H.R. 2454, sponsored by Democratic Reps. Henry Waxman of California and Edward Markey of Massachusetts, would require residential and commercial buildings to be 30 percent more efficient than the 2006 International Energy Conservation Code.

Engineers wanted blue and true green because with those colors, along with the red they already had, they could build fabulous things, such as a a white - light - emitting device as much as 12 times more efficient and 12 times longer - lasting than an ordinary lightbulb.

By using solar panels and energy - efficient materials, the buildings in the Holy Cross Project use at least 75 percent less energy than typical buildings.

Modha is confident that his chips can be used to build a cognitive computing system on the scale of a human brain for only 100 times more power, making it 10 million times more energy efficient than the computers of today.

To build those machines, which are 100 times more powerful than today's top performers, researchers need to come up with a host of breakthroughs in everything from making energy efficient chips to new algorithms for programming them.

The researchers separate six key strategy areas for reducing water stress into «hard path» measures, involving building more reservoirs and increasing desalination efforts of sea water, and «soft path» measures that focus on reducing water demand rather than increasing water supply thanks to community - scale efforts and decision - making, combining efficient technology and environmental protection.

The turnaround started in 2007, when low - flow toilets and showerheads were installed nationwide and the national water authority built innovative water treatment systems that recapture 86 percent of the water that goes down the drain and use it for irrigation — vastly more than the second - most - efficient country in the world, Spain, which recycles 19 percent.

A federal agency had just given Ford a $ 250 million loan guarantee with which the automaker would build 200,000 Ford Explorers — specifically, a model 30 percent more fuel efficient than its predecessor.

Enter the institute's Living Building Challenge (LBC), a certification program for buildings that aren't just energy efficient but also regenerative — they produce more power than they use and promote well - being.

«In many cases, energy management is actually more rewarding than decorating buildings with energy - efficient products,» says Tan Hongwei, head of green building and the new energy research center at Tongji University, whose words have been put into test at his own campus.

As a result, in 2010, more than 95 percent of newly constructed buildings in cities are energy - efficient, according to the Chinese standards, up from nearly 25 percent five years ago, Beijing reported happily in its annual statement.

«Combining exhaustive computational modeling with synthetic biology is more efficient and powerful than building networks one - by - one» says the corresponding author Mark Isalan.

Low - income housing residents who live in «green» buildings that are built with eco-friendly materials and energy - efficient features appear to have fewer «sick building» symptoms (SBS) than residents of traditionally constructed low - income housing, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

«When it's more important than ever to cut energy costs and reduce pollution in our communities, organizations across America are making their buildings more efficient, raising the bar in energy efficiency and lowering the amount of carbon pollution and other emissions in the air we breathe,» said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson in a statement.

China is building more nuclear plants (zero - emissions) and ultrasupercritical coal plants, which are much more efficient than conventional plants and thus less polluting, than the rest of the world combined.

In fact, my longtime collaborator, David Smith, is involved with a company called Kymeta that is using metamaterials to build a satellite communications dish that is cheaper, lighter, and more energy efficient than the current generation of dishes.

It's pretty safe to assume that a healthier, more efficient body will build MORE MUSCLE and lose MORE FAT than one which is struggling to deal with bad foods and toxins 24/7.

But building our own amino acids is much less efficient than consuming them from foods, and scientists believe that we probably can't make proline or glycine efficiently enough to keep up with our body's demand in the absence of dietary sources.

This allows more of a «continuous build» mindset, which is intrinsically more efficient than a reactive approach that occurs in fits and starts when pressures become too much to bear.

Carbon fiber is durable enough to be used for the entire structure of the car — not just the body panels — and it is lighter than steel and aluminum, allowing automakers to build more efficient and better - performing vehicles.

Although built on the VW Group's ubiquitous MQB platform, it retains the Audi Space Frame aluminium and steel hybrid construction of the previous models and, as you would expect, is lighter, more efficient and faster than before.

Not only is the boosted inline - six more powerful, more torque - rich, and more efficient than the V - 8 it replaces, it maintains that beautiful smoothness that still makes BMW the last word in engine building.

So here's one prognostication for a 2018, 2019 or more likely, a 2020 Mazda RX - 7 / 9: build it on a Miata backbone platform, longer than the MX - 5, but with the concept's front deck reduced almost by half; a new, more efficient conventional Wankel rotary, perhaps turbocharged, but with no electrification.

As competition heats up in the compact car segment, Honda is hoping to lure customers with more than just the promise of a well - built, efficient and reliable sporty car.

Thanks to a particularly innovative overall technological system, improved aerodynamics (cw = 0,281) and perfected rolling resistance, the new, all - electric Volkswagen is over 15 per cent more energy - efficient than the best steel - built direct competitor.

Built on the company's latest vehicle architecture, the new 2019 Subaru Forester is claimed to be more efficient, more dynamic, and safer than ever before.

Taking into account the theme of this year's LA Design Challenge of emphasizing the need for minimizing the use of the planet's resources while building a car that's efficient, lightweight — no more than 1,000 lbs — comfortable, and safe without sacrificing the design elements that would make it attractive to consumers, Mazda is basing the MX - 0 on the ideology of the MX - 5, albeit using parts that are lighter and simpler than the ones found in the Miata, all while not compromising the car's overall performance.

«The efficient combustion that occurs within a clean diesel engine makes it more durable than a comparable gasoline engine,» says the group of engines that must be robustly built to handle high combustion pressures.

The 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee is a lot more than first appearances might suggest: a true luxury vehicle, a capable off - roader, and a fuel - efficient diesel highway hauler — potentially all in the same build.

Its engine has again become more powerful yet fuel efficient; the 520 horsepower, 4.0 - litre, turbocharged and direct - injected TFSI V8 gasoline engine — paired with Audi's quattro all - wheel drive system — will shoot the S8 from 0 - 100 km / h in just 4.1 seconds, faster than some purpose - built sports cars.

However, the cabin is fabulously built and crammed with technology, while a wide range of efficient TFSI petrol and TDI diesel engines and a wealth of standard kit makes the A5 a competent all - round coupe that offers a bit more style than the A4 saloon on which it's based.

But with its efficient engines, superb build quality and comfortable, roomy cabin, the 5 Series has always offered much more than just an enjoyable drive.

Chrysler could have built a more efficient engine than this one.

We use only the most advanced components put together with a level of care and craftsmanship that the competition simply can't match to build a faster, more efficient workstation PC that takes you from concept to a completed AutoCAD design quicker than ever before.

It features a built - in 16 GB SSD, giving faster boot - up and read / write times than standard HDDs, as well as an energy - efficient Intel Atom N455 1.66 Ghz processor with 1 GB DDR3 RAM, providing users with longer battery life.