As they do not now have global networks, economies of scale from using Allied's distribution system would be lower.

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The Internet as a whole is very diverse in technologies and software, which is why it is so robust, but we are going to keep seeing these large entities suffering large if not global outages as long as they value economy of scale in purchasing and maintenance over true system diversity.

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With this new system, schools will be able to see how they might perform when benchmarked against a global scale.

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While presently only 0.03 TW of energy was extracted from wind in 2008, and there is room for a considerable expansion of this technology with relatively insignificant effects on the climate, any future expansion on a global scale must take account that the potential for extraction of wind energy is finite according to the nature of the Earth system.

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