The kinds of analysis that report massive, sustained, falling costs for renewable plants often assume that capital costs are recovered in steady-state fashion over the full, rated, life-cycle of the machinery, when in fact investors in these systems always strive to recover their costs much sooner to beat the diminishing returns that set in once two-thirds of the life-cycle is spent.
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The batteries are 100 percent recyclable, and currently have 5, 000-cycle life (the company wants 20, 000 cycles, plus 20-year calendar life).
Gem of the Ocean is the latest in Wilson's 10-part cycle about African-American life in the 20th century.
That may not sound like much, but it is enough to drive natural selection towards a prime-numbered life-cycle.
For example if a car manufacturer spots a rise in interest in cabriolets tied to the growing adoption of Spotify, then creating a cabriolet model with superior surround sound with the lid dropped, is a potentially valuable micro-market, one among many they might encounter in a six year product life-cycle.
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The cicada is also tasty to fellow animals which is precisely the point of its extraordinary life-cycle.
There are some important caveats to the chart and the 10-year life cycle theory in general.
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By extending producer responsibility to the full life-cycle, there is no concept of waste.
These conclusions are from a life-cycle analysis of 14 different source-fuels made by a team at M.
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This reduces the number of different types of aircraft operated by the Defense Department and their associated life-cycle costs.
The need or desire to replace products quickly and a shorter product life-cycle are a consistent drain on wealth.
The price-tag looks even heftier when the limited versatility and survivability of unmanned aircraft are factored into the life-cycle cost equation.
Thus, the life-cycle analysis shows that for every mile driven, the average electric car indirectly emits about six ounces of carbon-dioxide.
The other thing that we have going for us is the perspective that we're looking at a 10 year product life-cycle.
CO2 life-cycle emissions for natural gas are higher than coal after taking into account leakage during transport through old Russian pipelines.
Some can argue that Relativity Media tried and failed, but perhaps they focused on the wrong part of the movie life-cycle?
Moreover, although controversial, life-cycle analysis indicates that fugitive methane emissions make shale gas obtained by hydraulic fracturing as carbon-intensive as coal.
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By the logic of the 10-year life cycle, iOS and Android are nearing their apex in terms of market share, after which they will decline.
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The new carrier is also designed to significantly reduce maintenance costs from those of the current Nimitz class of carriers, another major driver of life-cycle costs.
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Although the competing engines have to be functionally interchangeable, each will incorporate proprietary technologies and processes that preclude some aspects of life-cycle support from being competed at all.
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So in the last year of their 17-year life cycle, when the soil temperature reaches about 64 degrees Fahrenheit, they crawl out of the ground by the billions.
However, beyond the smokestack, looking at the full life-cycle accounting for carbon of various biomass feedstocks, other reports have found that the source of the feedstock matters.
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Birds use temperature as a cue for many life-cycle decisions.
This dual life-cycle means that, besides disrupting normal cellular activities in the ways that other viruses do, a retrovirus may also disrupt the normal function of its host's chromosomes.
In the process, though, it fractures the product life-cycle for systems built by those private companies, raises overhead costs on remaining work, and in general make the companies less competitive.
Offshore wind projects are evaluated in terms of their initial installed capital cost (ICC) as well as their life-cycle costs, which are often described as the levelized cost of energy (LCOE).
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The evidence of this can be seen almost everywhere life-cycle of products, number of patents filed in the US Patent Office, amount of cell phone activity across national boundaries on and on and on.
The 10 year life-cycle because that's what did so well for us in PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2, and if you have a strategy that's worked, you tend to stick with it.
Sharman Apt Russell has done a wonderful job of gathering bits of exotic butterfly lore to brighten up her account of the insect's life-cycle, its acrobatic sexual practices and its amazing gift for mimicry.
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