Restrictions on land use keep Greek ventures from quickly reaching an efficient scale.
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Small firms continue to operate below their efficient scale, because if they were bigger, they would attract the tax authorities.
Ohio-based American Electric Power, the largest consumer of coal in the U.S., is trying to build the country's first super-efficient commercial-scale coal gasification plant.
On October 28th Fortescue reversed its long-standing public optimism and announced it would curtail expansion, a huge blow given the importance of scale in efficient mining of iron ore.
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Handweavers received access to new and extensive networks of middlemen, and moved toward new and efficient means of larger-scale organization.
It also said the units would create businesses which were "of sufficient scale to be efficient, but which are easier to manage as they will be operating in the same time zone".
This struck us as being the quickest, the fastest, and the most efficient way of getting large-scale additions to our collections online for free use.
The efficient frontier measures all investments on a scale of risk and return.
An efficient and effective economy does not necessarily require large-scale factory and office developments.
Strong regional tastes and lack of national scale stymie the development of national brands and efficient supply chains.
Since gas-fired generation is about the most scalable, efficient, flexible, clean and (on a large scale) lowish-carbon form of electricity available, it is going to prove economically and politically attractive.
At massive scale, the key is to deliver the most efficient service for a specific workload.
However, there is no efficient way to target and serve locally relevant ads to consumers at scale.
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Highview believes that, produced at scale, their kits could be up to 70% efficient, and IMechE agrees this figure is realistic.
Bernd Kosch, green IT advisor, Fujitsu Technology Solutions: Among the various green benefits of the cloud computing paradigm, there is one which is exceptionally striking: cloud computing enables small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to take full advantage of very large scale data centre technology, including the latest, most energy-efficient hardware provided in the shortest refresh cycles and leading facility-related infrastructure with advanced power utilisation effectiveness.
Right now, the critical barriers to entry for an entrepreneur with a disruptive idea (read: technology which may scale exponentially and unpredictably) are gaining access to low-cost, efficient infrastructure, implementing extremely complex software to maximize compute power and storage, and minimizing maintenance concerns.
In late 2007, France launched the first large-scale "feebate" (fees on inefficient cars, offsetting rebates to efficient models in the same size class).
The White House report notes that the Recovery Act is accelerating solar energy innovation by providing funding for greater solar energy deployment, manufacturing and scale-up, and catalyzing needed technological breakthroughs to create novel and more efficient technologies.
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Tours grew to corporate scale: private jets, five-star hotels, elaborate catering, massage therapists, efficient management.
The very biggest tend not to be the most efficient, becoming unwieldy in their massiveness, while banks in the next tier down tend to simply reap economies of scale.
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