Sentences with phrase «thing about energy efficiency»

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«It's a good thing to worry about server energy efficiency,» remarks Google's green energy czar Bill Weihl.

So in other words, you know, P is going to be about 1.2, S is going to be about 2, and E, say we do super-well in efficiency, it's a 0.5, because there's a mix of things like lighting that you can do super-well, and things like making fertilizer, where you're literally, unless there's something we're not seeing, we're close to the, you know, taking atmospheric N2 and making fertilizer's got an energy cost that — actually, those processes are so amazing, they're within like 20 percent of what we think that minimum looks like.

You seem to be backtracking on what you said earlier about (not) washing your hands of the matter if things don't come out almost perfectly as you would like in terms of energy transition and efficiency.

Things like building energy efficiency and better fuel economy are another story, and can be justified with or without concern about GW.

The interesting thing about that analogy of a resistor is that what matters, is both the total volume of energy being put through the resistor (the electric current / flow of solar energy) AND the efficiency of the resistor in slowing down the passage of energy.

But in a lot of cases when you think about reducing emissions through things like renewable energy or energy efficiency methods, there's certainly a role for technology in that context also.

(There's a lot more in the paper to support this, including a whole big thing about how IAMs unduly constrain energy - efficiency investments, but I sense patience exhausted.)

This is the kind of thing we talk about when we say go for efficiency and go for the low - hanging fruit - we are just throwing energy away when we could be making it into electricity for next to nothing.

When people talk about the Passivhaus, or Passive House system of design, the first thing anyone mentions is energy efficiency: the fact that they use hardly any energy at all.

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The HD display resolution is far from remarkable too, and the only good thing about the octa - core Snapdragon 435 processor under the Y1's hood is its energy efficiency.