Sentence examples for inefficient equipment from inspiring English sources

Amory Lovins once wrote that, if Jevons's argument is correct, "we should mandate inefficient equipment to save energy".

The higher carbon impact comes from the intensive energy use – caused by inefficient equipment – of data centers that store movies and pipe them into homes.

But steel industry experts say that some of the bigger integrated steel makers, like LTV, are also being hurt by higher labor costs associated with unions and older, inefficient equipment.

No one's going to "mandate inefficient equipment," but, unless we're willing to do the equivalent — say, by mandating costlier energy — increased efficiency, as Jevons predicted, can only make our predicament worse.

Most are reluctant to spend the money to replace inefficient equipment, like older air- conditioners or furnaces, with new designs until the old equipment breaks down, even when told that the new unit will pay for itself in savings within a few years.

Proliferation of inefficient equipment and desire to minimize initial cost.

There may not be a lot you can do about spending time at work, he added, "but you can do something about inefficient office equipment".

A ministry of finance report published last year said the institute was severely understaffed, and used old, inefficient medical equipment that could put patients' lives in danger.

The Orwellian adverts on the BBC are just rubbing salt into the wound by using "amnesty" to describe the trading in of old radios for a discount on energy inefficient new equipment.

A manufacturer of home furnaces and boilers, like Lennox, might see a pickup in demand, as homeowners accelerate the replacement of their old, inefficient heating equipment.

The transformation required to address this global problem will be huge replacing the inefficient capital equipment that powers the world will likely be the single largest economic opportunity of the 21st century.