Department of Energy
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Can a Small Nudge Make a Big Impact on Household Energy Efficiency?
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As America’s policymakers grapple with ways to reduce the nation’s carbon footprint, one often-overlooked area is ripe for improvement: household energy consumption. According to the Department of Energy, about 22 percent of energy consumed in the United States in 2016 was used by residential households. Yet, while residential energy consumption…
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Reinventing the Internal Combustion Engine
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Engineers can squeeze more efficiency gains from the old standby, if only policy would inspire them to.
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A SunShot In the Arm: How the Energy Department Is Banking On Renewables
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A chief engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy wants a “world without subsidies.”