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And we may have invented excess, but the problem of waste is worldwide.
So this shows ... (Laughter) (Applause) When the wind is blowing, any excess energy coming from the windmill is diverted into the battery.
This is a macro-algae that loves excess nutrients.
And those services can cost in excess of 60,000 to 80,000 dollars a year.
Now, that's really good compared to the mid-1980s, when it was in excess of 80 percent, but we can't explain the decline in death sentences and the affinity for life without the possibility of parole by an erosion of support for the death penalty, because people still support the death penalty.
And we do this because we actually believe that silicon technology today is mostly about a culture of excess.
Anybody that's selling their excess eggs at the garden gate, perfectly legally, to their neighbors, we've stuck on there.
Or to take an even more striking example, when the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations did a survey of Americans, asking them to guess what percentage of the federal budget went to foreign aid, the guess was 30 percent, which is slightly in excess of the actual level — ("actually about ... 1%") (Laughter) — of U.S. governmental commitments to federal aid.
This is all happening with excess capacity.
Nowhere on the planet have all the creditors been bailed out in excess of what their statutory entitlements were.
Well, congratulations, because if you look at this particular slide of U.S. life expectancy, you are now in excess of the average life span of somebody who was born in 1900.
Now I don't know why, but it might be because, in their case, their cells haven't actually figured out the right thing to do with that excess energy.
I dream of a day when our patients can shed their excess pounds and cure themselves of insulin resistance, because as medical professionals, we've shed our excess mental baggage and cured ourselves of new idea resistance sufficiently to go back to our original ideals: open minds, the courage to throw out yesterday's ideas when they don't appear to be working, and the understanding that scientific truth isn't final, but constantly evolving.
So we have, possibly, liquid water, organic materials and excess heat.
Australians, we don't mind a bit of a drink, sometimes to excess, leading to embarrassing social situations.
And so by doing this, they offset excess pollution and they reduce costs.
Climeworks uses heat from the earth, or geothermal, or even excess steam from other industrial processes to cut down on pollution and costs.
They can save the money that they were going to spend on charcoal and they can produce excess and sell it in the market to people who aren't making their own.
They'd rather live off of the excess of what they view as a wasteful consumer society than slave away at an unrealistic chance at the traditional American dream.
As in the upper airways of our lungs, the air in the Amazon gets cleaned up from the excess of dust.
This keeps the excess of dust from affecting the rainfall.
We have this incredible excess capacity.
Whale carcasses are also known to transport about 190,000 tons of carbon, which is the equivalent of that produced by 80,000 cars per year from the atmosphere to the deep oceans, and the deep oceans are what we call "carbon sinks," because they trap and hold excess carbon from the atmosphere, and therefore help to delay global warming.
As she was going to her destination, she noticed the driver opening the window to clean off the excess snow so he could drive safely.
Besides, creature of extremes and excess, I've always thought Apollo beautiful but boring, and a bit of a dumb blonde.
Now, most unsaturated fats are good for you, while saturated fats are bad for you in excess.
And in the future, a big disease outbreak could actually cost the world in excess of three trillion dollars.
The ocean covers roughly 71% of our planet's surface, some 360 million square kilometers, an area in excess of the size of 36 U.S.A.'s.
Fructose, on the other hand, is metabolized primarily in the liver, and when your liver gets overloaded with sweet, sweet fructose, the excess is metabolized to fat.
In solar towers, huge tanks of molten salt or oil can be used to store any excess heat and use it when needed, so that's how they manage the problem of fluctuating solar irradiance to smooth out electricity production.
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