Ilex, the agency that is in charge of the installation, said a number of issues have arisen.

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While a single wind-turbine does not affect the global atmosphere, the installation of a large number of such devices will interfere with the atmospheric circulation and diminish the extraction efficiency on the large scale, since any extraction of momentum will act in competition with natural wind-power energy dissipation by turbulence in the boundary layer.

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Sure, a big hail storm or the like will do a number on your megabucks rooftop installation, but the sun itself, the very thing those cells are designed to capture, gradually damages their internals, reducing efficiency.

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In 1999, the City's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications entered into a number of franchise contracts for the installation, maintenance and operation of public payphones on City sidewalks.

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Thanks to some clever innovation by a variety of financial players, a growing number of companies are getting solar electricity without paying the big upfront installation cost.

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Over the years Home Depot has added so many product categories--as well as installation services and professional businesses--that it's effectively reduced the number of households needed to support a store from 154, 000 in 1990 to 30, 000 today.

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