Word: efficiencyã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been charged with an even greater calling. As the nation’s 12th secretary of energy, Chu has committed himself to battling climate change by reducing the nation's dependence on fossil fuels, lowering carbon emissions, and finding immediate savings in energy efficiency??not merely “low-hanging fruit,” but “fruit lying on the ground,” whose simple implementation could radically conserve resources, he said...
...thousand Google searches.”Hölzle also claimed that Google has “designed and built the most energy efficient data centers in the world.”In October, Google reported that its Power Usage Effectiveness—a measure of power efficiency??had a quarterly average rating of 1.13, well below the Environmental Protection Agency’s reported average of 2.0 for data centers.Wissner-Gross speculated as to why the Sunday Times targeted Google. “It’s a really easy way to sell papers. Google...
...problem with this approach to centralization is that extensive collaborative efforts can rarely match the decisive speed—or perhaps even the efficiency??of a simple order from...
Last Monday, members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) came to Boston to hold hearings on an important subject: whether broadband providers like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast should be allowed to manage Internet traffic for efficiency??s sake. It’s a useful question, and one that abuts the controversial debate on network neutrality: the idea that broadband networks should blindly treat each bit of information on the Internet equally...
...Amtrak is privatized, the current, rather pathetic, state of train service in the U.S. soon will be a thing of the past. With private investment—and private sector standards of efficiency??Amtrak will finally be able to compete with planes on prices, reliability, service, and, over shorter distances, time...