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Dow's billion-dollar
efficiency
investment has already returned nine billion dollars.
And those can all be made more efficient, and the motors that turn them can have their system
efficiency
roughly doubled by integrating 35 improvements, paying back in about a year.
Well
efficiency
and gas can displace them all at just below their operating cost and, combined with renewables, can displace them more than 23 times at less than their replacement cost.
Traditionally utilities build a lot of giant coal and nuclear plants and a bunch of big gas plants and maybe a little bit of
efficiency
renewables.
However, especially where regulators are now instead rewarding cutting your bills, the investments are shifting radically toward efficiency, demand response, cogeneration, renewables and ways to knit them all together reliably with less transmission and little or no bulk electricity storage.
Now combine the electricity and oil revolutions, both driven by modern efficiency, and you get the really big story: reinventing fire, where business enabled and sped by smart policies in mindful markets can lead the United States completely off oil and coal by 2050, saving 5 trillion dollars, growing the economy 2.6-fold, strengthening out national security, oh, and by the way, by getting rid of the oil and coal, reducing the fossil carbon emissions by 82 to 86 percent.
Again, I don't want to say that this kind of haphazard pattern of interactions produces a factory that works with the precision and
efficiency
of clockwork.
A 10 or 20 percent improvement in the
efficiency
of every cooling system could actually have an enormous impact on our greenhouse gas emissions, both today and later this century.
Well, we believe the most direct way to save energy with this technology is as an
efficiency
boost for today's air-conditioning and refrigeration systems.
These panels can then be integrated with a component almost every cooling system has, called a condenser, to improve the system's underlying
efficiency.
In that demonstration, we showed that we could actually improve the
efficiency
of that cooling system as much as 12 percent in the field.
In the future, we might be able to integrate these kinds of panels with higher
efficiency
building cooling systems to reduce their energy usage by two-thirds.
We can use the cold darkness of space to improve the
efficiency
of every energy-related process here on earth.
It would produce, at 2,000 gallons per acre per year, it would produce over 2 million gallons of fuel, which is about 20 percent of the biodiesel, or of the diesel that would be required in San Francisco, and that's without doing anything about
efficiency.
But the key reason why it's taking off now so fast is because every new advancement of technology increases the
efficiency
and the social glue of trust to make sharing easier and easier.
Now, I've looked at thousands of these marketplaces, and trust and
efficiency
are always the critical ingredients.
But what if it's not about
efficiency
this time?
These are the kinds of stories that convinced me that letter-writing will never again need to flip back her hair and talk about efficiency, because she is an art form now, all the parts of her, the signing, the scripting, the mailing, the doodles in the margins.
And as technology and economic
efficiency
make life longer and more pleasant, one puts a higher value on life in general.
In the upper northeast, we're going to lead the nation in energy
efficiency
solutions.
So if you take, say, natural gas, which is the most prevalent hydrocarbon source fuel, if you burn that in a modern General Electric natural gas turbine, you'll get about 60 percent
efficiency.
If you put that same fuel in an internal combustion engine car, you get about 20 percent
efficiency.
CA: That scale delivers
efficiency.
If you think about Adam Smith versus Karl Marx, Adam Smith had a very important notion of
efficiency.
And indeed, this is a great example, and the reason for the Industrial Revolution and
efficiency.
Is
efficiency
still more important than meaning?
This photo illustrates the scavenging
efficiency
of vultures.
This is the thermodynamic cycle that produces electricity, and this makes this almost 50 percent efficient, between 45 and 50 percent
efficiency.
Unbelievable improvements in
efficiency.
And the possibility of making a web server for a dollar grew into what became known as the Internet of Things, which is literally an industry now with tremendous implications for health care, energy
efficiency.
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