This is irrespective of whether the amount used is proven to be harmless.
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SunPower says the system will generate enough electricity to offset the amount used by someone who drives about 1, 000 miles per month.
Once operational, it is expected to gobble approximately 9 megawatts of power per year -- about the amount used by 9, 000 single-family homes.
The seed treatment lowers the amount used 10 to 20 fold, decreasing the need for open spraying of the plant, a genuine sustainability benefit.
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Therefore, the amount used does not tell the whole story.
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The formula used in indexing showed 3.8% of inflation this year over last, well above the 1.4% amount used last year, and far greater than the 0.18% inflation factor used to set 2010 amounts, according to CCH.
We think many traditional euro area banks see the LTRO as a repo and partial covered bond replacement, but with limited scope for loan growth, with the backdrop of deleveraging the amount used for increasing balance sheets likely to be limited.
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The total volume of herbicides used with genetically engineered, herbicide-tolerant crops in the United States may have increased relative to usage levels 10 years ago, but because the herbicides used with genetically engineered, herbicide-tolerant technology are less harmful to the environment than the ones they have replaced, the increase in amount used is inconsequential.
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The amount of feed used for growing salmon is 44% of what it was in 1972.
About the same amount of horsepower used by 3-4 OTR 18 wheel diesel rigs.
Consumer credit is essentially the amount of credit used by consumers to purchase non-investment goods or services.
The amount of fertilizer used and fuel consumed and several other variables will differ for many of the bananas.
So now we have to establish a new tariff grid, where everybody pays for the amount of data used.
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Initial estimates of the amount of explosives used in the bomb varied from 50 kilograms (110 pounds) to 70 kg.
Further, the amount of aluminum used via substitution will likely rise to make cars lighter and meet fuel efficiency standards.
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One is to either make such silicon more efficient in use or to economise on the amount of silicon used.
For the iPad test, Vairmohan measured the amount of power used to charge up an iPad with a drained battery.
This year, Chinese officials hope to cut by 7% the amount of water used to produce each yuan of gross domestic product.
That's double the amount of data used streaming the same video over a 3G link, because the fatter pipe lets more data through.
In Dr Attari's study, for example, the survey provided a reference measure by stating the amount of energy used by a standard light bulb.
This dramatic shift in consumer behaviour has seen the average amount of data used by contract customers each month soar to 1.1 gigabytes (GB).
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The average amount of data used on a smartphone tripled from 2010 to 2011, according to Cisco's Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update.
Some worry about the amount of water used in the process.
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Utilities in some parts of the country also can get paid by grid operators for reducing the amount of power used during hours of high demand.
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The amount of gold used to make a medal shrunk after each of the two World Wars, according to Olympic medal collector and expert Jim Greensfelder.
The fall came even as the amount of land used to cultivate the crop rose by 18%, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said.
As reported by the Wireless Broadband Alliance, smartphone sales have overtaken PC sales in 2012 and in the future will dwarf the amount of data used by laptops.
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Those sessions, by and large, are consumed by the use of games and social media apps, which took 47% and 32% of the total amount of time used for such apps.
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Even as the company reduces the amount of hardware used to host its internal IT needs, it still plans to maintain the data centers necessary to host services for other companies.
Although the amount of gas used to generate electricity rose 82% between 1997 and 2010, increasing efficiency in appliances that use natural gas has led to declining consumption of gas per customer over time.
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