Given the sovereign debt turmoil in the Eurozone and the approaching debt problems for the US (as the US debt-to-GDP figures escalate over 100% by mid-2012 without accounting for state unfunded pension liability), debtor nations will find it difficult to finance large-scale consumption economies any longer.

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And so by comparing material-size to people-size, are we measuring primary material consumption on the right scale?

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Third, we should figure out how to use the scale of government energy consumption, especially through DOD, to provide test beds for important new technologies.

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But as China's economy continues to grow, so does the country's energy consumption, and with it the scale of the challenge that the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) faces.

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The rapid growth from data-creation to data-consumption devices is increasing the ICT market scale and opening up new prospects.

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For example, we could use an average of several years' income or, better yet, scale the AMaxT limit to consumption rather than income.

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"If we are to continue economic development and prosperity, we will need to greatly reduce our daily oil consumption, and high-speed rail is the only possible solution that can scale up to meet the growing demand of American mobility while greatly reducing our oil consumption, " said Kunz.

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But the sober message about wind and solar applies to all renewables: All renewables, much as I love them, deliver only a small power per unit area, so if we want renewable facilities to supply power on a scale at all comparable to our consumption, those facilities must be big.

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We clearly need a new model of production and consumption if economic development is to continue on a global scale.

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This makes it easier to scale up the number of disks in the drive while keeping drive power consumption and acoustic noise at acceptable levels (and even lower than the air filled drives).

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Almost 20% of global electricity consumption comes from lighting, so shifting lighting to LED technology is a cost-effective way to get change at scale.

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