Other managers profited by sticking to markets, like electricity trading, that were impervious to the stock market moves.
But more ambitious government services, like electricity supply and running water, are limited.
Mr Cundall said a survey was being carried out at the site to locate any modern-day obstacles like electricity cables.
But he has to balance this against a political desire to promote black control of and access to services like electricity and telephones.
They will need cell towers and servers, large data centers, specialized software, legions of trained personnel and reliable supplies of basic resources like electricity and Internet connectivity.
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Hydrogen is a fuel that, like electricity, can be made from a variety of sources: fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas, renewables, even nuclear power.
Yes, think of computing power as being just like electricity.
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"I was sitting in the cafe when I felt a huge spark like electricity in my eyes, and a huge explosion, " Amjad Saad, a college student, told Reuters news agency.
Lopez-Obrador also set out a 20-point plan that will include addressing immigration that will heighten conflict, price gouging for services like electricity and cell phone use, and media monopolies among other issues in the ambitious agenda.
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Some of the conditions we have to work and operate in for long periods of time lack basic things like electricity and running water, before you get on to providing the security that we're there to do.
For example, NanoSonic in Blacksburg, Virginia, has created metallic rubber, which flexes and stretches like rubber but conducts electricity like a solid metal.
Cloud computing is more like selling electricity, while getting all the appliance-makers to like you more than other utilities.
The same is true when it comes to something like the electricity grid.
Facebook is increasingly becoming a utility that everyone uses, like water or electricity.
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Facebook acts as middleman when Zynga game players buy virtual goods like tractors and electricity when playing Farmville and Cityville on Facebook.
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Getting it to work, of course, will require aligning the interests of government, utilities and manufacturers of things like sensors for electricity meters.
At one point, you were a necessity, like water and electricity.
"If you get the rags of civilization back in place, like water and electricity, then people will realize it isn't okay to loot, " says Cliff G.
They're all on all utility services, like water and electricity, but they've been left to rot, because crofters couldn't pay the VAT to do them up.
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He is a cheerleader for the idea of delivering software as a subscription-based utility, like water or electricity an idea that many firms have tried, mostly without success.
So we decided to relocate the street hawkers - putting them in hawker centres, with proper sewers, and providing them with basic amenities, like water, electricity, fridges, lighting and so forth.
Utilities want those power plants to store solar energy so it can be used to balance a power grid increasingly supplied by intermittent sources of electricity like wind farms.
Yet Mr. Ueno at Mizuho Securities said prices nationwide will be on the rise by at least June on the back of a rise in energy prices like gasoline and electricity.
In the daytime, when the sun is at its strongest, solar panels like these and electricity stored in car batteries will be able to power the grid with affordable, emission-free energy.
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Instead of over-funding and over-regulating critical infrastructure, liberalize networks like transportation, electricity, and telecommunications, and get spectrum out of the oversight of regulators so secondary markets can price, allocate and optimize it.
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Sun Microsystems is betting big on utility computing, a new model that would make processing time available to businesses on demand, much in the same way they buy utilities like gas and electricity.
After pollutants like mercury and sulfur are filtered out, the clean syngas can be burned to create electricity, like at the 250-megawatt power plant Shell built in Buggenum, Holland.
Nonetheless, the evidence suggests that many western companies are wasting money in their lemming-like rush into global electricity.
At least, in the developed world having an internet connection is basically like having heat and electricity and running water.
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