But Rackliffe said even 111-volt charging stations can strain the electrical infrastructure if electric cars become much more popular.
For instance, the law allows councils to oblige developers to pay towards local infrastructure if they build, say, a new office block.
"It will either ask to fund additional costs if the reef is more expensive than the current suggestions, or for funding on-shore tourism infrastructure if it is cheaper, " said Cllr Evans.
With data consumption predicted to reach 120 Exabytes by 2020 (eight times more than today ), the seamless mobile lifestyle will create a significant strain on network and data centre infrastructure if companies continue to deploy incumbent technologies.
Not only will Brazil need financial commitments from serious partners to develop its pre-salt oil reserves, but it will also have to significantly upgrade its national infrastructure if it seeks to enter the global market on competitive footing with advanced industrial economies.
Our history provides a clear lesson about infrastructure: If we build it, innovation will come.
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Niu Qingbao, China's consul in Mumbai, says Chinese firms are mustard-keen to invest in infrastructure, if also a little daunted.
He said Britain must have a "world class transport infrastructure" if it was to be "a world class economy in the 21st Century".
And as we flow more packets in more places we have to scale up our infrastructure and if we have more SKUs we have to scale up our supply chain.
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The U.S. government has for more than a decade claimed a national-security interest in privately owned critical infrastructure that, if attacked, could cause significant damage to the government or the economy.
The sting in the IMF tail appeared to be calls for the government and the bank to do more to protect the poor, get credit to business, invest more in infrastructure and, if growth continues to flatline, to consider a temporary cut in VAT in future.
The association estimates 1.8 million new jobs could be created if the infrastructure improvements are funded by Congress.
He thinks the region needs to invest twice as much if poor infrastructure is not to hold back growth.
Moreover, if superior infrastructure is supposed to be the surefire Keynesian route to economic growth, then the European example is certainly unconvincing.
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If the infrastructure build out required to get Brazil ready for the summer Olympics of 2016 ends up being a disaster, blame former Central Banker Henrique Meirelles.
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One year later, I am wondering if the infrastructure boom I am witnessing from our office windows can in any way be less spectacular than the one last year.
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Still, rising temperatures offer a lot of potential that Greenland is trying to tap into, hoping that farming will prevail here if the infrastructure, like watering systems, is in place.
Section 249 authorizes the President to declare a state of cyber emergency if critical infrastructure (CI) is deemed to be in serious jeopardy of a network-based attack and institute emergency measures to protect it.
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The lesson for China of Japan's policy change - the result of an unprecedented budget deficit - is that foreign investors may not give the benefit of the doubt to Chinese New Deal infrastructure plans next year if private consumption and investment fail to pick up.
Mr. CURT MAGLEBY (Public Policy Manager): Even today if you look at the five million ethanol-capable vehicles out there, if they were to be fueled on ethanol, if the infrastructure did exist for ethanol, that's equivalent to having more than 10 million hybrids on the road today.
If a bridge or airport or some other infrastructure is going to be built, and only if it makes sense to build it in the first place, it is far better to do it when unemployment is 10% than when it is 1%.
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The Shanghai one, in all probability, will not recoup its cost, even if the permanent infrastructure expenses are stripped out of the calculations.
But his point was that more firms needed to stay independent long enough to create a lasting infrastructure in Britain, even if they ended up in foreign ownership.
Companies make many copies of the same electronic data to analyze and share it and also to protect themselves if their computing infrastructure crashes, say, due to a blackout or to comply with record retention policies.
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"If the public infrastructure is out there, it makes people feel more comfortable, particularly the people who aren't very familiar with electric cars, " said Paul Scott, vice president of Plug In America, a coalition of electric car advocates and drivers.
For example, if your business infrastructure requires XML or JSON data formats, or an API to extract office data and transmit it to the field, then make sure you inquire with the mobile App vendor to see what they can offer.
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After the tsunami Hawaii still attracts thousands of visitors daily: the huge Waikiki hotel and downtown Honolulu office infrastructure remains intact, and if one wanders down the main tourist drag of Kalakaua Avenue, the tourist throngs at the omnipresent Starbucks, MacDonalds, and surfboard rental shops reflect a calm, business-as-usual atmosphere, as if there never was such a terrible tragedy across the Pacific Ocean.
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Thus there is indeed a role for government in providing some, even if not all, infrastructure.
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"If the money builds infrastructure they use to earn money, you can end up in a better place, " he said.
If China were building infrastructure projects in triplicate, it might portend that China was overbuilding at a faster pace than Dubai.
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