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Energy Efficiency

Generating new findings for a brighter future. We’re exploring how to improve energy production, storage, distribution and consumption that leads to efficient and effective energy use. 

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Three pumpjacks silhouetted by the setting sun.
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The conflict with Iran provides the perfect circumstance to usher out the era of oil and gasoline now that renewable energy is cheap and ubiquitous.

The war in Iran is the perfect opportunity to kick fossil fuels, and we’re missing it

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Two workers in white coveralls and masks examine solar cells in a cleanroom.
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Alternatives to silicon-based solar cells could allow solar panel production to move out of cleanrooms like this.
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A large field of sunflowers near Sacramento.
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Tweaks to farming practices could preserve some of California’s declining water resources.
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A pumpjack nestled between trees and luxury homes.
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California currently has no setback restrictions, so oil production can occur in the middle of neighborhoods like Signal Hill, in Los Angeles.

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