Even as steel companies in Europe, Asia and Latin America have joined up, American firms have remained stubbornly apart, resulting in excess capacity and scale inefficiencies.
In this context, we hope this Innovation Challenge will serve as a call to action for technology and data innovators to team with care innovators to propose solutions that can be implemented with speed and have the capacity to scale.
Equally, it would have retained capacity for small-scale missions and important interventions in areas of crisis.
By enabling applications to both scale in capacity and provide non-stop availability, server-farms have played a major role in the rapid expansion of Web-based computing.
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Due to this, it makes sense for firms to acquire pipelines in order to quickly scale up their capacity.
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The question is whether we have the capacity to solve large-scale problems.
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Thus far, only China has the capacity to produce at the scale, timing and quality levels required by large multinationals across a broad range of product categories.
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Pernick and Wilder chart this migration over the past half decade or so by tracking several trends, including public and private sector investment, installed solar and wind capacity and similar signs of scale.
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With global demand recovering and increasing chemical demand from emerging markets such as China, we expect that additional capacity expansions and economies of scale advantages should lead to market share and EBITDA margin growth for this division.
"It appears the Government is significantly underestimating the scale of the capacity crunch facing the UK in the next three years and there is a very real risk of the lights going out as a result, " he said.
On Thursday, the boss of the energy firm SSE, Ian Marchant, warned that there was "a very real risk of the lights going out" in Britain, because the government was significantly underestimating the scale of the capacity crunch facing the country.
Distributed DVR allows for any hard drive on the home's network to act as the storage device for your DVR, theoretically eliminating the need to even include an HDD in the set-top-box and giving customers the unadulterated ability to scale their storage capacity to fit their needs.
This makes it easier to scale check-in capacity to meet demand, and enables even small airlines to offer self-service check-in.
Borrowing on this scale could eclipse the capacity of global capital markets and bankrupt not only the programs themselves but the entire federal government.
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On the one side, they can get a guarantee demand for their products, getting rid of excess capacity, and attaining economies of scale.
We envisage a typical large-scale plant having an average capacity of 10, 000 tonnes of plastic waste per year.
"There are two big players in Asia outside Japan -- POSCO and China Steel of Taiwan -- that enjoy economies of scale because they have huge capacity, " he says.
Overall, utility scale plants with a total capacity of 3, 000 MW are presently under construction in the country and other projects totaling 6, 000 MW in capacity are in the early phases of development.
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Over time, by providing a market for these assets that does not now exist, this program will help improve asset values, increase lending capacity by banks, and reduce uncertainty about the scale of losses on bank balance sheets.
To put the scale in perspective, the average nameplate capacity of wind turbines installed in the United States in 2010 was about 1.79 MW, up from 1.74 MW in 2009 and 1.66 MW in 2008, according to the 2010 Wind Technologies Market Report.
"Over time, by providing a market for these assets that does not now exist, this programme will help improve assets values, increase lending capacity by banks, and reduce uncertainty about the scale of losses on bank balance sheets, " US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wrote in the Wall Street Journal before the programme was officially announced.
The EC2 provides re-sizable computing capacity in the cloud, thus enabling easier web-scale computing for the developers.
Acquiring Clearwire would be the next step as Sprint looks to increase scale and bolster its competitive standing with additional capacity for 4G LTE.
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California Rep. Mike Thompson told CNN on Tuesday that a ban on high-capacity magazines could garner Republican support, but a full-scale assault weapon ban would be hard to get passed in the GOP-controlled House.
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"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.
Intended to support both the enterprise and rugged markets, these products are expected to deliver more than 400, 000 random write transactions per second, scale up to more than 5TB of pure solid state storage capacity, ensure enterprise-class drive life endurance, and offered in SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel, and PCIe interfaces.
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Corporate philanthropy is typically played out on a grander scale than individual philanthropy, simply because companies can provide assets beyond the capacity of most individuals, including in-kind donations.
This is a step in the right direction, but we'll need governments to build not just the capacity but also the resolve to apply the technology and enforcement at a much greater scale.
With a combined production capacity of more than 4m vehicles a year, Fiat will also get some vital scale economies for its platforms, powertrains and the electrical components made by its Magneti Marelli subsidiary.
As if to underscore the point, yesterday the Iranian government ordered up 10 additional uranium enrichment plants on the scale of its already operational facility in Natanz, which has a planned capacity of 54, 000 centrifuges.
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