Sentences with phrase «less efficient technology»

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The automaker has the least fuel - efficient fleet in the U.S., and it's poured less investment into technology like autonomous driving than bigger rivals.

On one side is the argument that technology and innovation will help us be more productive and efficient, therefore requiring less time to get our jobs done.

The fog of frenzied cryptocurrency trading looks like it may soon dissipate, leaving markets and society with more of the good that's resulted from its foundational technology — frictionless, secure, and efficient virtualized transaction settlements — and less of the bad — highly speculative cryptocurrency trading.

In contrast to other prominent banking institutions, some of which are interested in exploring other use cases for the blockchain, Carstens did not appear impressed by technologies related to digital assets: «In practice, central bank experiments show that DLT - based systems are very expensive to run, and slower and much less efficient to operate on conventional payment and settlement systems.»

Therefore greater efforts are needed by government and industry to embrace less polluting and more efficient technologies to ensure that coal becomes a much cleaner source of energy in the decades to come.

The new technology of «reverse osmosis» offers a more efficient and less costly method of desalination than the old process of distillation.

Because producing food «intensively» (on a mass scale, in a location that enjoys advantages of climate and other environmental factors, with the addition of specialized technology, etc.) may, at least in some dimensions, be more environmentally - friendly than areas with less intensified production (because greater intensity often means more efficient).

For more than 50 years, Medela has developed technologically advanced breastpumps Throughout their history, Medela have been pushing the boundaries to create safe and efficient breastfeeding products including a technology that mimics a baby's natural sucking rhythm, resulting in getting mothers more milk in less time.

By replacing hundreds of older less efficient snow guns, the resort's entire fleet of snowmaking equipment will now be comprised of 100 % low energy technology.

ECO-FRIENDLY: Our latest technology washers and dryers are the most energy efficient available ensuring less water / energy use.

«The model is capturing the fact that you have a lot of low - cost opportunities to reduce coal, from heavy - industry direct use as well as the electric power sector, from facilities using less energy - efficient technology or processes.»

The innovation is especially significant for small devices, Hunter says, because other energy - storage technologies — such as fuel cells, batteries, and flywheels — tend to be less efficient, or simply too complex to be practical when reduced to very small sizes.

Yet increased energy efficiency and a focus on wind and solar power, which require less water, or the switch to more water efficient cooling technologies could help avoid this problem, the study shows.

In recent years, engineers have redesigned vehicles with more fuel - efficient technology, including gasoline direct injection engines paired with turbocharging, which results in smaller engines that burn less gas while retaining power.

Combining the advantage of zebrafish larvae being transparent with the latest developments in video analysis technologies, results in a much more efficient and less invasive method.

Companies like LeanPath, a scale - like technology that measures and tracks scraps and is helping IKEA cut down on its food waste by 50 percent by 2020, and consulting services like Foodprint Group, which is currently strategizing how food mecca Eataly can produce less waste while remaining cost efficient, are getting the word out that less food wasted means less money wasted, too.

Use QR codes, augmented reality, virtual tours, and other advances in classroom technology to change up the sometimes less - than - efficient rituals of Parent Open House.

«Indiana can spend more in the classroom, less on technology, and put in place an efficient system that leads to greater manpower savings in the future.

The buyer of a new long - haul truck in 2027 would recoup the investment in fuel - efficient technology in less than two years through fuel savings.

It seems that despite adopting: — a lithium - ion battery; — a «high - pressure direct fuel injection that replaced the less - efficient multi-port injection type»; — a new Hydra - Matic six - speed automatic transmission that replaces the conventional four speed used previously; — a «new BAS design [that is supposed to] ha [ve] noteworthy fuel economy gains compared to the earlier system»; — all those «talks» of «advancements gained from production of multiple generations of hybrid technology as well as development of the Chevy Volt»; — and significantly less horsepower and oomph than an Accord hybrid that was first debuted 7 years ago, there are actually little to show for any significant advancement in fuel economy from GM's latest hybrid.

GM officials said cutting back on less successful fuel - efficient systems will allow the company to focus on new technologies — including the plug - in series system hybrid underlying the Chevy Volt — which will require a significant investment.

This is possible because electronic paper technology is extremely energy efficient, using very little power, with additional power optimizations making the e-paper signs even less dependent on traditional power sources.

The lift technology incorporated into today's tables and tubs makes the grooming process more efficient and less grueling.

It skillfully blends the best elements of soft brand affiliation with state of the art technology solutions to enhance a hotel's marketing reach and render distribution simpler, more efficient and less costly.»

For many years in Koei Tecmo, by concentrating on developing basic technologies like game engine, have done their best to make game development more efficient and less costly.

The system also consumes 1,000 times less power than energy - efficient platforms like Bluetooth Low Energy and Zigbee and has been lauded by the MIT Technology Review which has named it one of the 10 breakthrough technologies of 2016.

The second is to adopt more water - efficient irrigation technologies and shift to less water - intensive crops.

Here a more urban life is matched with efficient clean energy sources, less driving in more efficient cars, better building technology and green utilities.

The authors also examined a series of studies on how America's homes and buildings have become increasingly energy efficient thanks to state and local policies, improved technologies and a growing recognition among builders that using less energy can mean saving more money.

For hydrogen generation that is cheaper, more efficient, and less polluting Berkeley Lab researchers are pursuing several alternative technologies, leveraging their capabilities in fuel cells, materials, and other areas.

However, since linear fluorescents are long - lasting, many of those now in use rely on an earlier, less energy - efficient technology.

As such, governments, environmental policy makers, and investors worldwide; have to play their respective roles to ensure that renewable energy technologies become less costly and more efficient, to supplement heavy usage of fossils, and to meet the future worlds» energy demand that is estimated to grow by more than 50 percent in the year 2020 by competent energy researchers.

«CNG vehicles still rely on internal combustion engine technology, which is less efficient in fuel requirements than electric vehicles, whose engines gain energy from braking and have higher operational efficiency,» the executive summary states.

From the article: «CNG vehicles still rely on internal combustion engine technology, which is less efficient in fuel requirements than electric vehicles, whose engines gain energy from braking and have higher operational efficiency,» the executive summary states.

«The DLP will push for the retention of our cheap, clean and efficient coal fired power stations and look to a more transitional model of using coal gasification and other clean coal technologies that would be far less costly to the taxpayer, while producing a secure and solid baseline for our grid.»

However, these economies use technologies that are less efficient and have lower - skilled labor relative to OECD countries, which requires more energy and more electricity usage to generate goods and services.

In order to decrease carbon emissions, countries essentially only have four options: reducing their population, cutting back economic activity, taking positive steps to increase energy efficient technologies, or expanding the role of less carbon intensive energy sources.

The existence of this positive externality of firms» R&D — or put differently, the public - good nature of the information generated by R&D — means that the private sector will carry out less than the «efficient» amount of R&D of new climate - friendly technologies in response to given carbon prices.

In his view, a broad - based technology push would turn into a pork - barrel program and be far less efficient than the technology that would develop in response to a requirement to reduce emissions.

«The government does not want to continue with old technology — besides environmental cost, they are less energy efficient»

Like most industries, a major driver of change in mining will be from new technologies that disrupt traditional operations, making them more efficient and less wasteful and energy intensive.

Global emission growth patterns are already changing — reflecting the more widespread use of energy - efficient technologies and less carbon - intensive energy sources.

DOE office developing more energy efficient and environmentally friendly highway transportation technologies to help the U.S. use less petroleum

Since linear fluorescents are long - lasting, many of those now in use rely on an earlier, less energy - efficient technology.

This new nuclear technology, because it operates at higher temperatures, can increase thermal efficiency from the 34 % or so of current nuclear technology to closer to 50 %; it can have more inherent safety features from not being pressurized and have a core that can not melt down; it can use more efficient combined cycle turbine technologies that require less capital for the same amount of power generated.

If carbon is priced in the US, carbon intensive industries will simply move to countries were it is not priced and where technology is less efficient.

This may be less true in some of the solicitor's practices where technology has made document production more efficient and where process efficiencies can be adopted in routine aspects of legal work where there is sufficient volume.

«Lawyers are embracing technology that makes them more efficient and less trapped in 100 - hour work weeks but that also reduces the need for them in certain types of cases or turns their counsel into a commodity.»

Just how far technology progresses, and if there comes a point where it no longer serves legal processes remains to be seen, but for the moment technology is enabling a more efficient and less physically cumbersome way of working.

Technology will automate some processes, make some more efficient, reduce the cost, effort and risk around a matter, however ultimately, who banks the savings is less clear.