This means that batteries could be smaller with the resulting reduction in electric vehicle cost and weight.
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LEPs, inkjet-printed circuitry has advantages of cost, weight, robustness and flexibility, as well as the ability to cover large areas.
The Polaroid iM1836 even captures wide-angle panoramic shots for impressive landscape photography without the added cost and weight of high-end equipment.
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The Glide is capable of using smaller gauge line and has a simpler rigging assembly, which helps keep cost and weight down.
The news comes at an opportune time for Alcoa, which last summer launched new aluminum alloys that it says will lower the cost, weight and maintenance of aircraft compared with the composites currently used.
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"We have 300 metallurgists and engineers in the plant whose sole focus is to have that steel plant yield successful new steel alloys to help us make our cost, weight and safety targets, " Krafcik said.
A123 expects this to lower cost, reduce weight and improve reliability, providing automakers with a cost-effective solution that A123 believes will increases efficiency and minimize system complexity without sacrificing vehicle performance, battery life or driving range.
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Not only is healthy weight hard to achieve, but showing the cost-effectiveness of weight-loss programs in the workplace also proves evasive.
But the airlines have been cool to the idea because of the weight and cost.
The main drawbacks are cost and the added weight of the equipment needed for satellite transmission.
This reduces both weight and cost, and also means that the design can easily be scaled up.
Since capacitive touchscreens can't detect pressure on their own, a second film is needed that can add weight and cost.
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But designers soon found that the size, weight, cost and torque needed to power the machine would be too great.
Each of Iridium's 66 satellites has its own phone-switching system, boosting coverage and performance at a cost of complexity and weight.
Jogging is a terrific, simple and low-cost way to lose weight as it burns significantly more calories (up to 65% more) than walking or biking, but many people who are overweight or obese probably avoid it due to fear of joint injury.
Adding batteries would add cost, but more importantly, weight, which would crimp the driving range.
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Give them up and the cost in terms of power, weight and influence for Britain would be infinitely greater.
Electric cars like the coming Tesla sound intriguing as long as you don't think too long or hard about the weight, durability and cost of batteries.
It should ultimately be capable of making ultralight cars at automotive scale and cost, halving steel cars' weight and fuel use, improving safety, costing no more per car and saving oil equivalent to finding a Saudi Arabia under Detroit.
It is certainly a significant figure, but it means little unless it is compared with the cost of care for people of normal weight and for those who are underweight.
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These are the impediments to the movement of people and goods brought on by Sept. 11: the wasted hours of employees showing IDs to get into their building, the delays at the airport, the backlog of trucks at the border, the increased cost of air freight, the dead weight of higher insurance premiums.
These are the impediments to the movement of people and goods brought on by Sept. 11: the wasted hours of employees showing proof of identification to get in their building, the delays at the airport, the backlog of trucks at the border, the increased cost of air freight, the dead weight of higher insurance premiums.
That can cut down on the cost of deployment, owing to the lower weight, power consumption and bulk of the equipment.
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People often cite the presumed high cost of healthy food as an impediment to maintaining a healthy weight.
Airfreight is a big added cost for races outside Europe, so halving the footprint and weight, versus the previous solution significantly reduced costs.
The proposal was advanced last year, but stalled when Ms Banerjee threw her weight behind objections, claiming that foreign retailers would cost local jobs.
Older workers have traditionally earned more, reflecting the weight of seniority in pay scales, so the cost of providing final-salary pension benefits for them has been higher.
It is feared any potential benefits from the extra boost of 80bhp for up to six seconds each lap will initially be negated by the system's weight (on average 35kg) and its knock-on effect on balance, weight distribution and reliability, not to mention the cost and anxiety over its safety.
Young Verghese reckoned this was a waste of money: The weight of the shells made up 70% of the shipping cost.
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