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By 2050 though, it could become efficient, connected and distributed with elegantly frugal autos, factories and buildings all relying on a modern, secure and resilient electricity system.
We can eliminate our addiction to oil and coal by 2050 and use one-third less natural gas while switching to efficient use and renewable supply.
The sales can grow and the prices fall even faster with temporary feebates, that is rebates for efficient new autos paid for by fees on inefficient ones.
So to get mobility without oil, to phase out the oil, we can get efficient and then switch fuels.
But as efficiency in buildings and industry starts to grow faster than the economy, America's electricity use could actually shrink, even with the little extra use required for those efficient electrified autos.
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.
Together, efficient use and diverse dispersed renewable supply are starting to transform the whole electricity sector.
It's not an unreasonable thing to do; it's an economically efficient thing to do.
The only problem is if you introduce this economically efficient solution, people hate it ... because they think you're deliberately creating delays at the bridge in order to maximize your revenue, and, "Why on earth should I pay to subsidize your incompetence?"
You have a relatively economically efficient solution, but one that actually meets with public approval and even a small degree of affection, rather than being seen as bastardy.
But there's thing called Moore's law that makes the computers more and more efficient and cheaper.
And we also have the relationships with the governments so that we can make sure that our program is coordinated with other disease-control programs, so that we can be efficient.
They can actually stack together so we get extremely efficient transportation and storage out of them.
We can make vehicles that are 100 times more efficient."
We could persuade her to take a train, still a lot more efficient than a car, but that might be a lifestyle change.
It comfortably accommodates one teenager and it's shorter than a traffic cone, and it's almost as efficient as a bicycle, as long as you drive it at 15 miles per hour.
In between, perhaps some more realistic options on the transport lever are electric vehicles, so electric bikes and electric cars in the middle, perhaps four times as energy efficient as the standard petrol-powered tank.
And so it was expensive to do, but it was a much more efficient path than starting from scratch.
In fact, as you can see from this graph, from the time that the Texas execution apparatus got efficient in the mid- to late 1990s, there have only been a couple of years where the number of annual executions dipped below 20.
When we're turning, we have the feeling of surfing, and the way it's going up-wind, it's very efficient.
So we may have developed the technology which is very efficient for pulling something long and heavy, but the idea is, what is the purpose of technology if it doesn't reach the right hands?
All that you need to do, all that the elites need to do, is to move this operation into something that is enclosed so that the operation can be made more efficient.
It's about the fastest and the most efficient and the most dazzling gadget you can have, while about two-thirds of the world can hardly reach the most basic of this technology to even address fundamental needs in life, including health care, education and all these kinds of very fundamental issues.
And the other key thing that we did was make this box run off a USB key, because we realized that even though there was GPRS and all that on paper, at least, in theory, it was much more efficient to send the data on a little USB key by surface mail.
They heat up under the sun and become less efficient the hotter they are.
Blue light is very efficient, so we have these tunable 24-bit LED lighting fixtures.
The police, investigating officers, were amazingly efficient.
Well, I don't know if you know about this, but in California, there's a huge amount of plastic that's used in fields right now as plastic mulch, and this is plastic that's making these tiny little greenhouses right along the surface of the soil, and this provides warming the soil to increase the growing season, it allows us to control weeds, and, of course, it makes the watering much more efficient.
That is not a superlatively efficient use of global resources, especially when you think of the billion hungry people that exist already in the world.
Even worse, with our intention of trying to make buildings move towards a net-zero energy state, we can't do it just by making mechanical systems more and more efficient.
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