Sentences with phrase «inefficient technologies»

Europe squandered its resources on government specified inefficient technologies.

It is particularly important to avoid lock - in of inefficient technologies for decades to come.

If we prepare for climate extremes by employing high cost / inefficient technologies immediately and lower cost / more efficient technologies emerge in the near future, we risk a significant economic setback — which will appear more pronounced if climate extremes do not materialize.

Unfortunately, if these countries continue with comparatively inefficient technologies, the production costs remain high and it becomes very difficult for entrepreneurs and industries from the developing world to compete in the international market.

Phononic is a semiconductor manufacturer that has developed new solid - state cooling and refrigeration technology that displaces compressors, heat sinks and fans — ancient, energy - inefficient technology that's been around for decades.

That's why country after country has banned or is phasing out the inefficient technology.

The availability of technologies that allow «industrial - scale» agriculture can spur rapid forest clearing, while inefficient technology in the logging industry increases collateral damage in surrounding forests, making subsequent deforestation more likely.

Similar shifts from older, inefficient technology to modern high efficiency technologies can also significantly reduce emissions in other regions where coal has a significant share of the power mix, such as Southeast Asia.

«Remarkably, one solution proposed has been to switch off the turbines when the bats are most at risk, a proposal that would make a grossly inefficient technology even more inefficient.»

Why keep a wind farm with out - of - date and (by modern standards) inefficient technology going when there are more efficient options?

Has your firm hit its tolerance level with inefficient technology and processes?

Not exact matches

This is a process — a continuous search for low - hanging fruit, easy targets and ways to apply tiny bits of existing and proven technology, or a better approach, to inefficient procedures that have «always been done a certain way,» even though no one can remember why.

«The current practice of assigning fixed frequencies for various uses irrespective of actual, moment - to - moment demand is simply too inefficient to keep up with actual demand and threatens to undermine wireless reliability,» said William Chappell, director of DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office, in a DARPA press release.

And desalination is just one niche of the water industry — but like others, it offers limitless opportunities for innovation, since many current technologies are outdated and inefficient.

Brown and other companies in the field, including Hampton Creek and Beyond Meat, believe that raising animals for food is an inefficient, destructive and unnecessary technology.

As connectivity spans the globe, new users will improve inefficient markets, systems and behavior, and affluent markets will tap advanced technology, says Google's executive chairman.

He's noticed «wildly inefficient» processes in the health care system that could be improved upon using technology.

When employees don't understand technology, the process of creating good work can be inefficient and sometimes impossible.

On the supply side, IEA said governments need to develop policies that encourage the spread of offshore wind power, nuclear energy and natural gas, while discouraging the continued use of the most inefficient coal - fired technology.

An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development report a few years ago concluded that «a key cause of the underlying fall in manufacturing employment everywhere is rapid productivity growth, whether by restructuring inefficient plants or deploying skills, knowledge, technology and new processes to boost efficiency.»

That technology is no longer appropriate for the US, which now makes much of its steel from scrap, and it would be an inefficient use of resources.

As inefficient as cold calling can be, an underrated, sorely missed benefit of the tactic in technology - reliant sales teams is the practice it gave reps in facing adversity, honing their messaging and developing creative, on - the - spot responses to overcome prospect objections.

There are private blockchains, which is a 20 - year - old technology that somehow causes idiots to throw money at it, and then you have public blockchains, which is supposed to be a decentralized record - keeping structure but, in reality, is both centralized and horribly inefficient.

Regardless of this, Bruce Fenton proceeded to point out that these organizations are not only inefficient when dealing with bitcoin, but that they also do not have a proper understanding of it, due to the ignorance towards the technology that they have reportedly showcased.

Unfortunately, around half of the new coal - fired generation capacity under development in the region still uses inefficient subcritical technologies.

And it did not say that mass screening is ineffective at catching deadly cancers, merely grossly inefficient, which is as much a commentary on the inadequacies of current screening technologies as on the ineffectiveness of blanket prescriptions.

Countries developing their economies now have access to a range of technologies that can allow them to leapfrog inefficient processes used in developed nations.

An optimistic Dickman, for one, sees no limit to what can be achieved if NASA develops new technologies to replace old and inefficient chemical rockets.

The existing process for manufacturing lithium - ion batteries, he says, has hardly changed in the two decades since the technology was invented, and is inefficient, with more steps and components than are really needed.

They urged him to cut subsidies for the onshore wind industry, describing wind technology as «inefficient and intermittent».

«Technology hype is a highly inefficient, but natural, phenomenon,» said co-author and professor Dan Sperling, founding director of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.

This promises a huge improvement compared to current technology, in which the absorbed light energy is dissipated as heat to the crystal lattice, making the conventional excitation schemes extremely inefficient.

And the industrial nations commit to helping the developing ones «leapfrog» past the inefficient and dirty - energy technologies that fueled the industrialization of the former but mortgaged the environ - ment in the process.

No - one can have failed to notice that inefficient light sources have been phased out over recent years paving the way for new, more efficient technologies.

This discussion appeared to help the LSG develop another important TPACK aspect — knowing how to foster students» judicious use of technology by giving students situations where it would be inefficient to use the technology.

He said, «The legacy of the factory model of schooling is that tens of billions of dollars are tied up in unproductive use of time and technology, in underused school buildings, in antiquated compensation systems, and in inefficient school - finance systems.»

School district looks to technology to transform inefficient processes and improve teacher effectiveness

«We want to transfer our [electric vehicle] technology into a segment [SUVs] that is presently horribly inefficient,» he said.

hybid < > fuel economic in global; I simply dun understand why Prius, Honda Civic Hybrid use fuel inefficient petrol engines — BMW has similar fuel economies these hybrid have without hybrid technology in their comparable size 116i, 118d models and even for comparable price!!!

The fuel efficiency is not great for drives of 5 miles or less (which is the distance I usually drive)-- the engine can be relatively inefficient while warming up, and the hybrid technology doesn't kick in right away.

So, faced with disruptive eBook technology that threatened their inefficient and antiquated business model, several major book publishers, working with Apple Inc. («Apple»), decided free market competition should not be allowed to work — together they coordinated their activities to fight back in an effort to restrain trade and retard innovation.

Nintendo continues to support reform efforts to reduce the unnecessary and inefficient burden patent cases like this one place on technology companies in the United States.»

In economic terms our U.S. economy is well inside the Production Possibilities Frontier (it's very inefficient, given the cost - effective, off - the - shelf technology available).

It would also allow the sale of vehicles of any size and place the primary burden of adopting new technology on those who buy large, inefficient vehicles.

«Consumerism, inefficient resource use and inappropriate technologies are the primary drivers of humanity's growing impact...»

There is only one source of demand for green energy technologies — first world governments — and inefficient, statist markets are never the subject of global great games.

«Converting set - asides to corn - ethanol production is an inefficient and expensive greenhouse gas mitigation policy that should not be encouraged until ethanol - production technologies improve,» the study's authors report in the journal Ecological Applications.

It could be massively inefficient and we would still be far better off in actually developing the long — lead - time technologies that we would want if faced with a currently unanticipated emergency.

China is taking important steps to close down smaller, inefficient power stations but it is also building large, modern and more efficient (HELE) coal - fired power plants — new regulations effectively ban subcritical (non-HELE) coal technology.

Instead of pouring money into subsidies for existing, inefficient wind and solar energy, we'd be far better off supporting research and development of green energy technologies to make them cheaper, faster.