Until the change, IEC's expensive equipment sat idle most of the weekend.
The equipment is expensive and is inevitably idle most of the year because it has to process a crop quickly, since sorghum, whose stem juice is anywhere from 12% to 20% sugar, spoils quickly.
The way utilities now meet demand spikes is to attach an extra natural-gas-fired generator or two to the grid and let it sit idle for most of the year.
"Even if the perfect intuitive 3D modelling application were available for free then still most people would sit idle, staring at the ideal 3D printing app and the ideal 3D printer unable to come up with anything to make, " said Mr Peels.
Carver's disclosure highlighted the growing pressure and uncertainty the company faces as one of California's most important sources of electricity sits idle.
Idle Worship is the most ambitious game ever to hit Facebook.
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Most of the Cisco equipment you buy sits idle quite a bit of the time: by virtualizing it, you can improve performance and lower your equipment costs at the same time.
That system led to the discovery that most lead time was being dissipated as parts sat idle on a dock somewhere.
Mac mini retains its status as the world's most energy efficient desktop computer, using only 11W when idle.
Intel's most powerful chip, with 2 billion circuits, draws 130 watts even when idle.
Idle Worship represents two years of work, four patents and the most ambitious gaming project on the Facebook platform yet.
After all, this is a man who mortgaged his house so Monty Python could make "Life of Brian" because he wanted to see it -- "still the most anybody's ever paid for a cinema ticket, " jokes Python's Eric Idle.
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