For more, visit The Great Energy Challenge.

要获得更多信息，请登录伟大的能源挑战主页。

Consumption-led demand is China's future energy challenge.

由消费主导的需求是中国未来面临的能源挑战。

Learn more about The Great Energy Challenge Panel of Advisors here.

可以更多的了解能源大挑战的顾问团成员。

Just as we are rising to meet our education challenge, we must rise to meet our energy challenge.

象积极应对教育挑战一样，我们也必须积极应对能源挑战。

By joining The Great energy Challenge, we can all make a positive difference in this crucial decade and change how we think about and consume energy.

通过加入巨大的能源挑战，我们都会对这关键十年有完全不同的了解并且改变我们对于消耗能源的认识。

But addressing the energy challenge, which would go a long way toward addressing the climate change, is ultimately about global moral and economic standing.

不过解决能源挑战问题最终关系到各国在全球的道德和经济地位问题，而通过解决能源问题来解决气候变化问题，还有很长的路要走。

"Today's challenge is energy," says Palacios, "and we believe that gallium nitride can be just as important in addressing the energy challenge as silicon was in addressing the information challenge."

在托马斯教授看来，今天又出现了新的问题，那就是能源。他说：“我们认为氮化镓能够像硅材料解决计算机信息储存量问题一样，解决现在的设备的耗能问题。”

Using alternative fuels and improving energy efficiency is thus both an ecological necessity and a technological challenge.

因此，使用替代燃料和提高能源效率既是生态需要，也是技术挑战。

The challenge is to move beyond the present chemistry to produce batteries that are safer, cheaper and have greater energy density. This will not be easy.

我们面临的挑战是超越现在化学技术从而生产更安全、更便宜、更大能量密度的电池，这将是困难的。

Already, we've seen countries like Germany, Spain, and Brazil reap the benefits of economic growth from clean energy. But we are decades behind in confronting this challenge.

我们看到德国、西班牙和巴西等国已经从清洁能源带动的经济增长中获益，但是在应对这一挑战方面我们落伍了几十年。

An additional challenge is to adapt institutional and regulatory frameworks in the energy sector to meet these new challenges.

另一大挑战是对能源行业的制度和法规框架进行调整，以应对上述新挑战。

Bringing about a wholesale change in America's energy supply will be a challenge, to say the least. And the sort of measures that are currently finding favour in Washington will make it harder still.

至少说，要全面转变美国的能源供应是一项挑战，而寻找一种目前华盛顿支持的解决办法也使这种转变更为艰难。

While such moves help extend local energy supplies, they can't help in another challenge.

尽管这些措施有助于当地能源供应的增加，但他们却应付不了另外的挑战。

Daniel Kammen, a professor in energy and resources at the University of California, Berkeley, agreed: the most daunting challenge to Spirnak is cost.

美国加州大学伯克利分校能源和资源教授丹尼尔·卡门对此表示赞同：斯皮纳克面临的最严峻挑战是该计划实施的成本。

Ultimately, the computer programs developed for the GREAT challenge will be used to help unmask dark matter and dark energy, the mysterious stuff that makes up 95 percent of the universe.

最终，为GREAT奖所开发的电脑程序将被用于揭开暗物质和黑暗能量的面纱，帮助科学家明白构成宇宙95%以上物质的真实面目。

A limitation of green power generation is that wind farms and large-scale solar panels are easier to site in remote areas, leaving a challenge in taking energy to centres of population.

绿色发电的制约是风力发电场和大规模的太阳能电池板更方便设置于偏远地区，而将能源传输到人口密集地区比较困难。

When it comes to addressing urgent items, break them down into Action Steps and challenge yourself to reallocate your energy as soon as the Action Steps are completed.

一旦要处理紧急事项的时候，将它们分解为行动步骤，处理完成后马上带动自己重新分配好精力。

Very soon now, unless we marshal an effort worthy of the challenge, we will understand the inescapable links between civilization and the energy source on which it depends.

我们理解社会文明和支撑其生存的能源之间不可分割的紧密关系。

Since June, Cape Wind has faced a legal challenge from a group that includes Californians who normally lobby in favour of renewable energy.

自六月起，Cape Wind就已遭到一个团体的法律挑战，该团体包括那些常常游说支持可再生能源的加利福尼亚人。

Physics Nobel laureate and U.S. energy secretary, Steven Chu, offers his thoughts on the paired challenge of climate change and clean energy in Cancun. David Biello reports

诺贝尔物理学奖得主，美国能源部长Steven Chu，在坎昆提出了他应对气候变化挑战和清洁能源的看法。

It remains to be seen whether those with the energy to game the admissions system are up for the bigger challenge of running a school of their own.

这仍要看这些有能力玩弄录取系统的人是否准备好迎接建立一个自己的学校这个更大的挑战。

Not all present the same level of challenge - which is good, in a way, as it helps us sharpen priorities and decide where we need to invest our energy.

不是所有这些问题都处于同一挑战水平—这在某种程度上是有利的，它能帮助我们精选重点并决定我们必须将精力用在何处。

Dark energy is even more of a challenge: it comes neither from known particles nor from the empty space between them.

暗能量的研究则更加富有挑战性：它既不来自于已知的任何粒子，也不来自于粒子之间的真空区域。