Moreover, the government is getting serious about pollution and is shutting down or pressuring high-polluting and high-water-usage industries.
Simple to use, and with a low-fuss factor, it has consistently high rates of usage - securing its place among the 10 most effective purchases.
To ensure stability and reliability for individual drives, all drives undergo rigorous high-temperature burn-in tests and accelerated usage simulation testing.
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Rice believes that the training system is a great change-up for college and high-school programs and will put forth a strong effort to increase usage at the pre-professional level.
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LEPs, which are the size of tic-tacs, are designed specifically for high intensity usage, for things like street lights, parking lots and sports stadiums.
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The 787, whose first commercial flights occurred in the fall of 2011, employs lightweight materials to reduce fuel usage, but also requires the high-power lithium batteries, which have caused fires aboard aircraft in the past.
Compared to uses on the slower 3G network, data usage on 4G is expected to be high - potentially leading to increased costs for users who wish to download a lot of data-intensive content such as audio or video.
That helps explain why Motorola's venerable RAZR series remains staggeringly high on Nielsen's latest US phone usage report -- third place, to be exact, at 2.3 percent of all subscribers behind the iPhone 3G at 4 percent and RIM's BlackBerry Curve line at 3.7 percent.
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T-Mobile has said its high-end Android phones average 1.3 gigabytes a month of data usage.
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The story points out that Coca-Cola did something similar when it was criticized for its high water usage.
Mobil will pay on a per-usage basis that gives it the coverage it needs in high-demand summer months, while costing little when business drops in February.
Despite falling prices for high-speed bandwidth and wireless service, telecom budgets keep growing because of increased usage and new services such as virtual private networks, voice-mail storage and Web hosting.
It also sells usage guidelines from Harvard hospital parent Partners that help hospitals prevent overuse of high-cost medications.
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The system uses real-time and historical data to cut the distance pallets must travel and anticipate times of high usage.
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