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- noun Plural form of
negawatt .
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But researchers now talk about 'smart grids' and 'negawatts' - expressions that were current at the Nov. 26-27 conference in the German capital of Berlin on the 'Smart Revolution of Electricity Management'.
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Here's how they're going about doing it -- it's all about selling "negawatts" instead of megawatts.
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Here's how they're going about doing it -- it's all about selling "negawatts" instead of megawatts.
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In the critical area of "negawatts," for instance, the president proposes a sweeping expansion in energy efficiency, with $500 million in credit subsidies to support $3 to $5 billion in loan guarantees for efficiency and renewable energy projects.
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In the critical area of "negawatts," for instance, the president proposes a sweeping expansion in energy efficiency, with $500 million in credit subsidies to support $3 to $5 billion in loan guarantees for efficiency and renewable energy projects.
Mike Signer: Let There Be Light! Obama's Budget Delivers on Energy Mike Signer 2010
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In the critical area of "negawatts," for instance, the president proposes a sweeping expansion in energy efficiency, with $500 million in credit subsidies to support $3 to $5 billion in loan guarantees for efficiency and renewable energy projects.
Mike Signer: Let There Be Light! Obama's Budget Delivers on Energy 2010
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Coastal Restoration's waterless urinals, on the other hand, could eliminate demand for 10 megawatts of power - what some call 10 'negawatts' of energy - and reduce the amount wastewater produced in the region by 50 MGD.
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A nationwide push to save "negawatts" instead of building more megawatts could help reverse our unsustainable increases in energy-hogging and carbon-spewing while creating a slew of jobs and saving a load of cash.
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In the critical area of "negawatts," for instance, the president proposes a sweeping expansion in energy efficiency, with $500 million in credit subsidies to support $3 to $5 billion in loan guarantees for efficiency and renewable energy projects.
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You seem to persist in missing my points, which are first, that a "healthy proportion" is not enough - we need to replace (including "negawatts") ALL fossil fueled generation, and second, that some ways of implementing renewables, such as covering over large areas of land with solar thermal generation, aren't healthy.
RealClimate 2009
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