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How Electric Companies Are Supporting Energy Conservation Efforts

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Distribution transformers, which adjust voltage and current for customers, are another opportunity for large reductions. Increasing their efficiency can save 60 terawatt-hours by 2040, equal to the current consumption of the Czech Republic.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

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So one of my long running rants has been about how we should gather all the evidence we have to try and make a best guess as to the distribution of possible outcomes based on possible upsides and possible risks and costs and make an overall assessment of that totality of evidence and impacts. Everybody in the Czech Republic is wearing masks."