Sentences with phrase «large gains in efficiency»

American manufacturing output is at the highest level in history and employment has fallen because of large gains in efficiency, a trend that is unlikely to reverse.

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Lots of grocery stores have embraced self - checkout, where you scan your own items and place them in a bag, but I can't easily imagine a real grocery store investing in Amazon's «Just Walk Out» technology any time soon — the investment in cameras and sensors over a large space would be too huge, and the efficiency gain for a real grocery shopping trip wouldn't warrant it.

That said, I actually think this is less likely; insurance operates best at more scale, not less: first and foremost, the larger the pool, the more risk can be spread, as well as obvious efficiency gains in administration.

When (not if, but when) complexity no longer results in a loss of efficiency on the human side, tax administrations could see large gains from re-regulation in some cases.

Since 1980, reverse osmosis has doubled its production capacity, in large part because of gains in membrane efficiency and life span.

The authors argue that vehicle fuel economy may be improved through three primary methods: reducing vehicle weight and size; increased market share of alternative powertrains that show more efficiency than conventional gasoline engines; and, rather than continuing the historical trend of emphasis on vehicles that are heavier, larger, and more powerful, ensuring that improvements in vehicle technology's efficiency gains are directed toward increasing fuel economy.

Plus, as alluded to in the previous sentence, the Lexus GS hybrid is a very expensive vehicle, so — as nice as the efficiency gains are — you'll need to have a large annual mileage if you're to recoup the extra money you spent on the list price.

While gains in efficiency have been made, the all - around larger car has made just as much if not greater gains in the road - handling department.

However it does not look that way, we need efficiency gains in every area to go with new energy sources and it seems to be expensive and Governments seem loathe to reallocate GDP towards these large scale revisions in their political systm.

While a large portion of our past efficiency gains came from improvements in individual products, appliances, and equipment, and these device - level technology improvements will continue to play an important role, looking ahead we must...

But it is an inescapable fact that even with extraordinary measures to adopt low - carbon energy supply technologies on a large scale it will be mathematically impossible for the country to enjoy even moderate economic growth in the absence of much stronger energy efficiency gains than in the past.

The good news is that there is a large potential for energy efficiency gains in Ukraine.

Building on the available economic data and the larger historical record, the ACEEE diagnostic review indicates a large opportunity for climate change legislation to open up an even greater potential for efficiency improvements that can power a small but net positive gain in the nation's economy while substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The hotter collector that results from the large temperature rise no doubt causes increased heat losses and somewhat lower efficiency, but it still does the job, and the system is so simple that it seems that the gain in simplicity is worth the drop in efficiency.

So, dramatic improvement in building efficiency is an important part of a much larger transition that must include equivalent gains in transportation, agriculture, urban design, and manufacturing.

There is also possible greater efficiency of investments of tomorrow so that we should now put our money in the bank and gain the interest and then invest the larger sum later.

If gains in efficiency arise from large commercial litigants parking their protracted disputes outside of the public arena of the courts, then so much the better.