Nowhere among the assembled nations (with the lonely exceptions of Bolivia and Ecuador) has there been national emphasis on "conservation" – that is, advocating less production and less consumption of energy and materials, less global export shipping, "powering down".
Recently, he told me, "If it is true that greater efficiency in using a resource means less consumption of it — as efficiency environmentalists say — then less efficiency would logically mean more consumption.
NEW YORK TIMES Rattner's Energy Proposal | Steven Rattner argues in a column in The Financial Times for "the most powerful and effective way of achieving the twin goals of greater efficiency and less consumption of oil: tax".
As computing power has spread to everything from the manufacture of microchips to the frothing of cappuccinos, California has defied eco-pundits and state officials who forecast that the Internet and the "new economy" would inevitably lead to less consumption of electricity.
It's called the Jevons paradox, where efficiency improvements lead to more, not less, consumption of certain goods or services.
Therefore, repeated media releases remind consumers of the interaction effect and lead to less consumption of grapefruit.
Sustainable machine tools are characterized by less consumption of energy as well as low costs during their life-cycle.
And let's go ahead an define "something right": faster boot times, less consumption of memory, etc. Sounds like what Vista should have been from the get-go, right?
However, the constant potential method demonstrated that this provides the synthetic advantages of faster deposition and less consumption of electric charge compared to the cyclic voltammetry route.
In several cases, after the cleaning process surfactants are disposed in the environment; in this situation, less consumption of surfactants may also minimize the environmental problems.
Low concentration of urinary fluoride in girls may be attributed to relatively less consumption of drinking water and food compared to boys.
