Clearly, though, the Bloom Box is still not a zero emissions tech and would only cut emissions by roughly 50% relative to the national average, unless it runs on landfill gas or biogas or hydrogen from electrolysis fueled by zero-carbon electricity (which would be much more expensive as you have to add cost of electrolysis unit, higher cost electricity, and about 30% conversion losses in electrolysis).
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Those gains take two forms: less electricity consumption and a lower cost per unit of processing power.
What used to be a high-touch (and high cost) unit in many organizations has now become automated, outsourced, and oriented towards self-service.
At the same time, my one person plan had the highest per unit cost.
Our objective ought to be to achieve the environmental goal at the lowest unit cost.
That means that unit cost may go down, which makes it cheaper for businesses and consumers.
SITA's network at incremental cost, its unit costs are far lower than its actual volumes would imply.
The program was halted due to high unit cost of F-22 and delays in Russian and Chinese fifth-generation fighter jet programs.
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Alternatively, if your space and budget permit, you could investigate buying in bulk from vendors in order to lower your per unit cost.
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"So, the permeability of reverse osmosis membrane is key to improving capacity per unit cost--or on a capex basis, " said Jeff Green, CEO of NanoH2O.
And one of the things that a company like ARC Energy is doing is trying to bring down the unit cost for each of those light bulbs.
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"Also, light levels are currently increasing year on year and so it would be reasonable that the unit cost of PV generation will decrease in the future, " he said.
Alvarez is banking that fewer, more robust partnerships will yield economies of scale: As each distributor carries more product into stores, the overall per-unit cost of distribution will drop.
The more orders received, the more widely the huge development costs can be spread, bringing down the unit cost of an aeroplane with each one that comes off the line.
But they could look at the, for instance, three cents that a given patent would cost them per unit and decide if it was really worth inventing their own work around.
After all, the creation unit cost for DBJP is less than half of that for DXJ (0.04% vs. 0.10%) despite the fact that DBJP has nearly 100 more holdings in its portfolio.
So, if you live in Europe, can afford the extra cost of the unit, and are in the mood for some rewritable Blu-ray, then this may be the media center PC for you.
The unit cost of the U-2 is classified.
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Common sense would dictate this kind of increased volume of sq inches purchased from their display supply chain should yield some substantial discounting on the per unit cost of the display for an iPhone and an iPad!
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With the company committed to cutting down on its Average Unit Cost and marketing, general and administrative expenses, we expect that the EBITDA margin for this division will gradually increase to around 25% by the end of our forecast period.
The solar mission in its first phase focused on areas already connected to the grid and had a pricing system that bundled four units of thermal electricity with one unit of solar-based power, which reduced the average per-unit cost of solar electricity.
For example, when the B-1A program was restarted to produce the B-1B, the per unit cost of the B-1B was three-times higher than the B-1A. Importantly, the B-1B was a modification (albeit a significant one) of the A-model and a gap of just 18 months occurred in the production line.
And, by the way, usually there are not cost benefits with multiple unit ownership.
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Or if you prefer, the marginal cost of one more unit of production is near zero.
Even if the U.S. unit labor cost trend flattens out, a continued 10 percent rate of appreciation appears likely.
Chrysler has also put a significant amount of unit-cost into soundproofing, with acoustic windshield and front-window glass and other noise abatements.
Airlines would face an even higher cost on a per unit basis.
And as Ron says, the more we make, the less each individual unit will cost, and therefore, the less each automobile will cost.
Economies of scale are the cost savings associated with a larger production size of certain product, the larger the production scale, the lower the per unit product cost.
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