However, large-scale natural disasters--though rare and well spaced out in time--undoubtedly have that power.
Superstorm Sandy is the most recent large-scale natural disaster to hit the United States.
Even though it is a small company, it has a resourceful management team with a demonstrated record of building an important large-scale natural resources company.
Lacking large-scale natural resources, the government has boosted manufacturing and agriculture.
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Eli Noam, the director of Columbia University's Institute for Tele-Information, calls the consolidation a natural evolution to achieve scale and diversify risk.
This study was commissioned by the Obama Administration to look specifically at the economic impacts associated with potentially large-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.
In a developing country like Turkey, where stringent building regulations exist but are seldom applied, and where governments have more pressing tasks than the organisation of earthquake drills, a natural disaster on this scale will unfortunately almost always kill many people.
With this new wealth-creation model in mind, peak Apple suggests also a natural peak in how companies can scale.
To date no technology has been able to accurately measure and quantify the amount of methane emitted from fracking sites and other natural gas fields over a large scale.
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Its scale and sheer size as a natural feature is what makes it so awesome.
Even some large scale road transport fleets have switched to natural gas due to the cost effectiveness of the fuel.
Boone Pickens, once an ardent supporter of wind power, has announced plans to scale back wind investment, primarily because natural gas has made wind unattractive to investors.
The trial will replicate, on a larger scale, a study carried out by Natural Justice, a British charity, and published in the British Journal of Psychiatry in 2002.
Like natural gas, which is experiencing a full-scale US boom.
But this affair, besides its spectacular scale, coincides with slumps in tourism and natural resources, the mainstays of the region's poorer countries.
Boone Pickens, once an ardent supporter of wind power, has announced plans to scale back wind investment, primarily because cheap natural gas prices has made wind unattractive to investors.
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Natural climate variability, from seasonal to multi-year scale, has produced significant effects in the Latin American countries, which suggests that climatic change projections constitute an important element for national and regional planning.
There is no doubt that the Nigerian oil and natural gas industry can perform more efficiently and on a greater scale and that reform is required to achieve this.
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Beyond the touristy town of Punta Cana in the southeast, the country becomes a vast natural landscape of vibrant greens and blues, unmarred by large-scale tourism or commercial hotels.
As natural disasters and wars rip apart societies, and as large-scale modernization projects, urbanization, and transnational migration bring about sudden dislocations, the endurance of cultural beliefs, values, practices, and knowledge, and their transmission across generations have become significant concerns.
"Increasing the nation's use of natural gas for electricity generation could result in adverse economic consequences, " the report said, noting that natural gas prices are fickle and that fuel switching on a large scale would require regulators to approve more pipeline and storage capacity.
While large-scale desalination is not uncommon in those parts of the world where natural water resources are scarce -- such as Texas and Australia -- the UAE is by some margin, according to Iannelli, the industry's most active player.
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While a single wind-turbine does not affect the global atmosphere, the installation of a large number of such devices will interfere with the atmospheric circulation and diminish the extraction efficiency on the large scale, since any extraction of momentum will act in competition with natural wind-power energy dissipation by turbulence in the boundary layer.
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As the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has been examining the question, the debate in Israel has tended to juxtapose the energy security advantages of maintaining a large strategic natural gas reserve against the economic and other benefits of export, which requires scale to justify the considerable capital expenditures to build the required infrastructure.
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For a natural disaster to represent a global threat, it has to act on a global scale.
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From natural disasters and political unrest, to turbulent commodity prices, business on a global scale brings never-before-seen risk.
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Renewable energy remains too expensive, too land-hungry, too unreliable and too small-scale to take up much slack, so cheap coal and newly abundant natural gas will do the job.
Add to that our coal and comparable amounts of cheap natural gas, and America is sitting on a hydrocarbon gusher that is unprecedented in scale since the dawn of the oil age.
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These could be among the first full-scale power plants in the nation to turn powdered coal into a synthetic natural gas that is burned in a gas turbine whose exhaust gas powers a steam turbine.
Excessive attention has been directed to hypothetical radiation dangers relative to the enormous scale of broader havoc wrought by those incredible once-in-three-century natural disasters.
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