Energy Efficiency

Energy efficiency may refer to:

  • Efficient energy use, sometimes simply called energy efficiency.
    • Energy efficiency in transportation.
  • Energy conversion efficiency, the ratio between the output and input of an energy conversion machine.
  • Energy conservation, efforts made to reduce energy consumption.

Famous quotes containing the words energy and/or efficiency:

    “The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    ““Never hug and kiss your children! Mother love may make your children’s infancy unhappy and prevent them from pursuing a career or getting married!” That’s total hogwash, of course. But it shows on extreme example of what state-of-the-art “scientific” parenting was supposed to be in early twentieth-century America. After all, that was the heyday of efficiency experts, time-and-motion studies, and the like.”
    —Lawrence Kutner (20th century)