Sentences with phrase «innovation than energy»

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More than 350 leading college entrepreneurs and 150 world leaders gathered at the Kairos Global Summit in New York City earlier this year to collaborate and create innovations and business models that address key global issues, including clean water, the global financial crisis, energy consumption, natural disasters, healthcare and more.

With a global value chain that includes more than 460 crop procurement locations, 300 ingredient manufacturing facilities, 40 innovation centers and the world's premier crop transportation network, we connect the harvest to the home, making products for food, animal feed, chemical and energy uses.

Incentives and policy instruments to encourage entrepreneurs and start - up companies, and promote projects like community energy initiatives, as evidence suggests that fresh thinking and innovation often comes from small organisations rather than the «big players».

The Administration was also able to secure some funding, albeit more slowly than they would have liked, for an array of new innovation models: the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), the Energy Frontier Research Centers, and the Energy Innovation Hubs.

More than 1000 experts (including Scientific American editor - in - chief Mariette DiChristina) have gathered in Dubai to discuss big world problems such as climate change, poverty, water shortages, energy and innovation.

More than 1,000 experts (including Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina) have gathered to discuss big world problems such as climate change, poverty, water shortages, energy and innovation.

It will take clever science to do it, but according to the director of CSIRO's onshore gas research, Dr Damian Barrett, the multidisciplinary and multidimensional nature of the work suits an organisation like CSIRO rather than the traditional service suppliers of innovation to the energy industry.

«For more than 50 years GE has been at the forefront of energy innovation and nuclear technology and GE Hitachi's PRISM reactor offers an attractive solution to tackling the UK's plutonium management challenges while generating clean electricity,» said Mark Elborne, President and CEO of GE UK & Ireland.

Rather than depending on more funding for low - carbon and energy efficient measures, the architects and engineers used a high degree of innovation to suit the brief and budget.

I agree Patrick should definitely receive the Govenor Generals award for his ability to continually deliver  in a  field that demands nothing less than innovation, insight and energy day in and day out.

Nowhere is the promise of innovation greater than in American - made energy.

No one has better articulated the many merits of pursuing a grand energy quest than Richard Smalley, the Nobel laureate in chemistry who spent the last years of his life, even as he fought leukemia, pressing the case for a sustained push on innovation in relevant fields of science.

Direct public investment in innovation is a faster means to this end than gradually making dirty energy sources expensive so that clean energy sources gradually become cost - competitive.

As with other important long - term issues, including boosting America's investment in basic research and incentives for energy innovation, it is trajectories that matter far more than specific targets.

He would have to push for far more engagement and investment by the United States in developing countries — the main source of such emissions in coming decades — even though many lawmakers and citizens perceive these countries more as economic foes than potential allies on energy innovation.

The worldwide growth in the renewable energy sector is manufactured, much less by spontaneous innovation opening up new opportunities than, as with Britain, new environmental laws and massive subsidies.

In Issues, a longtime energy analyst has also called for more energy innovation, but rather than simply increasing funding, the United States should restructure its energy technology program to capitalize on the strengths of both the government and the marketplace.

In its place, the work of innovation to decrease energy consumption is taken up by researchers and startups with many promising solutions like biofuel paved future roads that are cheaper than petroleum, sustainable and environmental friendly, or the creation of high speed system of transportation that runs on air and electricity, made by a company called HyperLoop.

Bill Gates is leading a more than $ 1 billion fund focused on fighting climate change by investing in clean energy innovation.

While he's philosophical about his June primary defeat, he's aware his constituents were less than enthused about energy innovation when the economy was tanking.

When a CEO declares that his or her company will improve the water quality of an entire community or build a workplace that will generate more renewable energy than it requires, this statement alone can unleash enthusiasm, creativity and innovation.

So when I say «energy innovation» policies, I'm not talking about a silver bullet, I'm talking about a suite of policies from R&D, demonstration, financing, deployment, and market - based that not only develop the clean tech we need, but creates a competitive market for them, and get those technologies to market quicker than if left alone.My concerns shared in the post are those that ignore the innovation piece and assume, to a point a you do, that price or regs or taxes will have not just an immediate impact but a LARGE impact.

Deep retrofits are one area of innovation and promise in driving greater building efficiency in order to enable a sometimes better - than - new building — and even more important, foster a vibrant clean - energy economy.

The head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Energy Institute recently wrote, «Technology and innovation, rather than sweeping federal mandates, offer the best approach for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating the impacts of climate change.»

This democratizes energy choices, promotes competition, speeds learning and innovation, and can further accelerate deployment — because «vernacular» technologies accessible to many diverse market actors, even if individually small, tend to deploy faster in sum than a few big units requiring specialized institutions, complex approvals, intricate logistics, and hence long lead times.

In addition, innovations and new tools are allowing us to use more solar in our energy systems than ever before.

In the meantime, innovations in clean energy in India and China, in forestry in Brazil and Indonesia, and in carbon markets in the EU, China and Japan, will show how progress can be made in transitioning to a low carbon economy while enhancing rather than undermining economic competitiveness.

Competitive forces and industry innovation continue to drive technological advances and produce clean - burning natural gas, which has led to reducing carbon emissions from power generation to their lowest level in more than 20 years, making it clear that environmental progress and energy production are not mutually exclusive.

According to WRI, if further innovation achieves the cost targets set by the US Department of Energy's SunShot initiative, the cost of solar scale - up would be fall again by more than a factor of five.

In fact, it easy to see how a well functioning innovation system can yield far more progress towards rapid clean energy deployment than communications efforts, as important as the latter is.

«Wind energy costs two - thirds less than it did six years ago thanks to technology innovation and those savings are being passed onto American consumers.

Advanced Technology A9, Apple's third - generation 64 - bit chip powers these innovations with 70 percent faster CPU and 90 percent faster GPU performance than the A8, all with gains in energy efficiency for great battery life.

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