Sentences with phrase «use efficiency over»

But the good news is that we've seen improvements in agricultural water - use efficiency over the past 40 years.

And coupling that finding with the 32 percent increase in water use efficiency over the same time period, Urrutia - Jalabert et al. conclude the trees «are actually responding to environmental change.»

Not exact matches

By using the pay - as - you - go model, companies could save dramatically — up to 50 percent over five years, Forrester predicts — by increasing efficiency, postponing additional purchases, reducing staffing costs, and improving how they monitor and account for computer usage.

The reason efficiency is declining is due to decline in oil reservoir quality the world over as the best reserves of this finite resource were produced first and more recent production is more energy - intensive using enhanced oil recovery techniques.

Because individuals often provide services for others while maintaining independent control over the means and methods of their own work, the use of independent contractors fosters an entrepreneurial spirit while giving firms that contract with such individuals an increased flexibility that promotes efficiency and innovation.

Having processed over 700 transactions in the past 6 months, their use case is an example of a growing trend of crypto companies using proprietary technology in combination with B2B partnerships to create greater efficiencies internally and for end users at scale.

The Transportation Department regulates the nation's vehicles, airplanes, railroads, pipelines, ports and highways - including whether to allow the use of small unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, over people and whether U.S. fuel efficiency standards should be revised.

I definitely used to think AI was one of the most over rated chuckers of all time coming into this year, but Mitchell's performance this year has really opened my eyes to the problems of just looking at efficiency in a vacuum.

Since the first home - use electric pump was introduced over 20 years ago huge progress has been made in terms of efficiency and safety.

Some of the same arguments — efficiency and cost - savings — were used in 1968 to wrest control of Monroe Harbor from private management and turn it over to the pols.

Forcing Leaders to Lead Although corporations need to shoot all their efficiency and renewable energy bullets trying to reduce their own carbon footprint, it's most important that they use their own business as a club to batter legislators with advocacy, use their influence over customers to create a grassroots movement and allocate advertising dollars to a climate campaign aimed at a broad audience.

These semiconductors can be used as an optical absorber material in solar cells, but so far have only achieved a maximum efficiency of 12.6 per cent, while solar cells made of copper - indium - gallium - selenide (CIGS) already attain efficiencies of over 20 percent.

«The overall sun - to - electricity efficiency of the hydricity process, averaged over a 24 - hour cycle, is shown to approach 35 percent, which is nearly the efficiency attained by using the best photovoltaic cells along with batteries,» Gençer said.

With this technique, the Empa team has again been able to significantly increase the energy conversion efficiency from sunlight into electricity using CIGS thin film solar cells on flexible plastic foils — to a new record level of 20.4 %, representing a marked improvement over the previous record of 18.7 % established by the same team in May 2011.

Dry powder inhalers exhibit several advantages over traditional drug delivery methods, including improved formulation stability, enhanced delivery efficiency, excellent portability and ease of use.

By dramatically improving the speed and efficiency of conversion over conventional approaches, these enzymes could stimulate efforts to grow crops for fuel, with implications for biodiversity in the form of increased land use for this purpose, potential shifts away from fossil fuel use and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

While some transportation researchers have suggested autonomous cars could cut emissions by boosting driver efficiency, others, including Fulton and his colleagues, project that energy use and carbon emissions would increase over a business - as - usual scenario because more people will travel farther.

The new model uses a dielectric material rather than a metal for the nanoantennas, a change which greatly improves its efficiency and, combined with a new design approach, enables operation over a broad range of wavelengths.

The energy department and members of the Green Grid — which also includes Hewlett - Packard, IBM and Microsoft — signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to develop over the next three years a common set of metrics and tools for measuring data - center energy consumption, to encourage data centers to obtain energy savings assessments, and to train personnel to conduct energy savings assessments and use tools to identify energy efficiency enhancements.

(The decoy effect works on humans, too: When buying a used car, for example, consumers who value a lower price over fuel efficiency may choose car B over car A, which costs more but has superior efficiency.

«Harvesting the sun for power and produce: Agrophotovoltaics increases the land use efficiency by over 60 percent.»

The use of viral vectors in research is beneficial for a number of reasons, including but not limited to: helping to get difficult - to - deliver DNA into mammalian cells, increasing the efficiency of gene transduction, allowing for control over which cells are infected through viral pseudotyping, and ease of vector cloning and modification.

The aim of this work was to determine the efficiency of a straw / compost / soil biomixture for pesticide depuration during its aging and continuous use, for a period of over a year, based on its capacity to remove carbofuran (CFN), while simultaneously monitoring the variations in microbial community structure.

Compare that to using the same twenty cloth diapers over and over, cleaning them with safe detergent in a high efficiency washer.

Through her writings, she guides people on how to use technology for improving their productivity and efficiency over work and how they stand to gain from the use of project management solutions.

Use of these instruments over the past 25 years has continued to demonstrate effectiveness and efficiency in discerning able students» range of functioning in critical domains (Benbow & Stanley, 1996).

Power comes from AMG's now widely used 5.5 - litre V8 engine, direct injection and twin - turbocharging not only increasing performance over the old SL63's 6.2 - litre naturally aspirated unit (518bhp and 464 lb ft maximums rise to 530bhp and 590 lb ft), but improving its efficiency too (20mpg and 328g / km morph into 28.5 mpg and 231 g / km).

To increase efficiency 25 percent over the V - 10, which was rated at a mere 11/17 mpg, the 2012 model will use an automatic start - stop function in combination with a seven - speed dual - clutch transmission to help save fuel.

Using a technology called spark controlled compression ignition, or SPCCI, Mazda claims it will offer significant real - world gains in terms of efficiency, cleanliness and performance over the company's existing Skyactiv petrol and diesel powerplants.

The environmental theme of the Ioniq's «green» efficiency carries over here too, with plenty of eco-friendly materials used throughout the cabin.

Terrific fuel efficiency for an SUV!Your quest for a gently used SUV is over.

The use of aluminum and super high - tensile steel throughout the vehicle reduce the weight by almost 20 percent over last year's model, thereby enhancing fuel efficiency and performance even further.

* Horsepower and torque expected to top previous model (testing is ongoing — check media.gm.com for updates) * NOx emissions reduced at least 63 percent over 2010 models * Quieter operation * High - pressure (30,000 psi / 2, 000 bar) Piezo - actuated fuel system for greater fuel efficiency, improved performance and reduced emissions * Exhaust brake system that enables controlled vehicle slowdown on downhill grades without actuating the brakes * Selective catalytic reduction after - treatment system using diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) injection to provide the best overall diesel characteristics and performance — with a range of about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) between DEF refills * Combustion and after - treatment have been optimized to provide about 700 miles (1,125 km) between diesel particulate filter regenerations — a 75 - percent improvement over the previous system and significant contributor to improved fuel efficiency, as the regeneration process requires additional fuel * B20 biodiesel capability for an alternative fueling option * Internal revisions that improve durability

«Its advanced hybrid drivetrain, impressive aerodynamics, use of lightweight materials, and significantly improved city fuel efficiency over the previous generation are all positive testaments to its distinction as the 2017 Luxury Green Car of the Year ™.»

Those who use the bed regularly will be met by bed rails that are 1.5 - inches taller than before, which help fuel efficiency but also make it more difficult to fling cargo over the truck's side and into the bed.

For drivers seeking speed over efficiency, the XE is also available with the exhilarating supercharged V6 used in the F - Type sports car.

The Mercedes - AMG Project One PHEV is amazing in it's use of F1 technology achieving over 40 % efficiency using spray - guided direct injection (DI) combustion which allows stratified lean combustion.

Still using pushrods (although under another name) rather than overhead camshafts and relying on displacement over efficiency, the 6.2 - liter engine in the Escalade is a step behind the V - 8 engines in full - size Japanese SUVs such as the Infiniti QX56 in terms of modern design.

It also has an all new rim design that is both elegant and efficient, Mazda tested over 20 different rim designed and found the model they used as the best design and efficiency.

The additional use of a turbocharger helps support relatively high engine loads with the short valve opening contour and the lower valve lifts, enabling the good efficiency of the EIVC - based process over a wider load range.

Ford says it used a font called «bold leadership» and — we cracked up over this — removed the hyphen between F and 150, which «adds to the message of efficiency.»

The Honda Accord's emphasis on power over efficiency and its use of a V6 engine, were cited as the reason for poor sales.

Using a CVTC on the outlet port increases thermal efficiency, decreases inhalation resistance and offers an approximate four percent improvement in fuel efficiency (over the previous engine design).

The government has also recently announced that $ 200 million from cap - and - trade proceeds will be used to establish a fund for schools to improve energy efficiency, such as installing new windows, lights and furnaces, as well, up to $ 657 million over five years will be used for social housing repairs and retrofits.

So long as battery efficiency over full life of a battery in normal use is around 90 % then no issue though that data isnt easy to come by either.

The potential for efficiency remains enormous, and given the likely improvements in technology and changes in societal norms over the next century which it will take us to do the right thing, we are likely to be able to cut fossil fuel use further than most people imagine possible, even if renewables don't become commercially competitive (which wind is already, and solar is in certain situations).

The researchers have focused on white solar panels, not just because of the versatility of the color, but because white solar panels would stay cooler, which boosts their efficiency, and using them over large sections like the roof would keep the buildings themselves cooler, which would reduce the energy demand of cooling buildings.

This Twitter item leads to a Grist / Climate Desk piece on «Political ideology affects energy - efficiency attitudes and choices,» a fascinating new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that, in part using light bulb choices, shows how polarization over the merits of cutting greenhouse gas emissions appears to torque the behavior of conservatives away from commonsense energy choices.

Rolling back efficiency efforts is also at odds with the findings of a September 2017 energy efficiency potential study completed for the Iowa Utilities Association, which determined that 17 % of electricity use and 15 % of gas use in the state could be saved cost - effectively through efficiency programs over the next decade.

The success of standards and other energy efficiency efforts is a significant factor in California's per capita electricity use remaining flat over the last 40 years while the rest of the country's use continues to rise.