For a concrete example, imagine you have two computers that use 100W idling and 200W at full load.
Travelers are being stranded and flights are delayed, sometimes with a full load of passengers sitting on the runway for hours.
As a result, a system using wind and solar has to be built with sufficient system capacity from conventional sources to be handle the system full load without the wind and solar systems.
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It's not hard to imagine why people would want a motherboard as small as VIA's PX10000: its low power requirements (the guys at Mini-ITX.com couldn't get it to draw more than 16 Watts under full load) and miniscule size (less than 4 inches long) make it perfect for really small enclosures.
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Ernestine Fu may be the first Stanford sophomore to work as a venture capitalist while carrying a full course load.
The extra weight could also rob the car of its full fuel load, forcing it to make extra pits stops during a race.
Fu juggles the intense responsibility of working at a VC firm with a more than full course load in the civil and environmental engineering department.
Concorde was an engineer's delight: it took the jet-bomber technologies that had evolved at the end of the second world war and pushed them to the frontiers of the possible, or indeed beyond the frontiers, given that the aircraft's initial prototype could not have crossed the Atlantic with a full passenger load.
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Rangeland built a rail terminal and storage facility in North Dakota to load tanker cars full of crude and send them anywhere the price was highest, often the Gulf Coast but also the East and West Coasts, bypassing the limitations of regional pipelines.
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In the full version the device will adjust based on CPU load, so when nothing is going on it slows down, but when you're playing a game it goes fast.
The budget airlines allow only 25 minutes between flights to offload one set of passengers and load another, less than half the time of its scheduled full-fare rivals.
Because of the severely clogged WiFi network at the venue, the Chrome browser (now a standard app) took just about 15-plus seconds to load a simple Google search and even more to render the full Engadget desktop site.
Watching his two children come home every night with overstuffed backpacks full of books, he decided his next venture would be to lighten their load.
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By contrast, consumers who would damage their bottom line by curtailing load are still allowed to participate via self-generation, ensuring the programs achieve their full potential.
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It was surprising quick to load pages on the 2G connection, and the benefits of that compression were apparent when pointing to full desktop sites.
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