By extending producer responsibility to the full life-cycle, there is no concept of waste.
That may not sound like much, but it is enough to drive natural selection towards a prime-numbered life-cycle.
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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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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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 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.
Agencies must incorporate security into the architecture of their information and systems to ensure that security supports agency business operations and that plans to fund and manage security are built into life-cycle budgets for information systems.
The latter item is especially costly, since most of the life-cycle costs of jet engines are incurred after production, as parts are repeatedly repaired and replaced to keep the engines in a state of high readiness.
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"What we're learning is how storms evolve in this part of the region... their dynamics, their life-cycle, their internal characteristics that are unique to this region, that have never really been observed before by radar, " he said.
According to US Treasury data, the vast majority of American households in the lowest 40% of the income distribution today will move up at least one quintile over the next decade as they go through the life-cycle of earnings.
According to a life-cycle analysis, the land-based crops all were found to sequester more carbon than that incurred in growing them, while the contrary was true for growing algae, meaning that replacing fossil fuels by algal fuels could cause an overall increase in carbon emissions.
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When life-cycle costs are compared, natural gas is currently a more economical decision than flex-fuel powered vehicles, although both are more expensive than gasoline at current figures (keep in mind that these dynamics could change due to oil shocks or increased demand for traditional fuels both real risks).
The argument could also be made that delaying construction of the new Ford class of carriers might actually increase the long-term cost of carriers, since the next-generation carrier is designed to reduce crewing requirements by hundreds of personnel, and manpower expenses are the biggest driver of life-cycle costs for aircraft carriers.
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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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