Sentences with phrase «uses vast amounts of energy»

The U.S. healthcare system, the most expensive in the world, uses vast amounts of energy in the form of heating, electricity, and energy - intensive goods and services.

Steve: So we're using these vast amounts of energy to then accomplish something that gives us a fraction of an erg to look at.

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The problem is, these «fast» sugars don't all get used up for energy (unless you're about to run a marathon or do something that involves vast amounts of energy) and so they are stored as fat.

City residents are thrifty users of energy, but cities still use vast amounts, as can be seen in this image of the United States at night.

What exactly is the technology that will allow us to use renewable energy sources that all seem to require a vast amount of space without putting up transmission lines?

All these things are made using mammoth amounts of energy: far from achieving massive energy savings, which most plans for a renewables future rely on implicitly, we would wind up needing far more energy, which would mean even more vast renewables farms — and even more materials and energy to make and maintain them, and so on.

Then the fresh meat has to be kept cool till it's used, requiring vast amounts of energy.

It is also the poor who are most desperately in need of more energy — a situation completely unlike the USA which is a profligate waster of unbelievably vast amounts of energy, and where I would argue our quality of life could actually be improved by dramatically reducing our energy use.