Fundamental advances in LED semiconductor technology, optics, and lighting system design now enable LED lights to break century old cost and performance barriers that have prevented consumers from realizing the savings businesses and municipalities already enjoy.
What will hurt the housing market is not the alleged excess in prices we've been hearing so much about but the plain old higher cost of money.
Simple, old-fashioned cost-cutting certainly played some part in many of the recent problems.
"I've had people cry on me, " he says, when he's delivered the news that saving an old car will cost more than it's worth.
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In the case of Delphi, GM spun off its parts business but made the new company take the old, high cost union contracts--a recipe for disaster.
Look what happened to Nokia, the old leader in low cost cell phone production and sales.
But the disruptors eventually gain a foothold, progressively displacing the old, high-cost approach.
And often, to be successful, a new solution needs to cut through the old, high-cost distribution system directly to customers if it is to succeed.
The Solar Electric Light Fund is demonstrating that you can provide poor families with solar power for roughly the same cost as old standbys such as kerosene and candles.
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The cost overrun is partly their fault, for demanding more office space than was originally planned, and partly due to other factors, such as the refurbishment of an old building which has cost more than was expected.
He argues that his opera is reaching a far wider audience at much lower cost using good old television.
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Moreover, traffic on the Internet dodges the fees, taxes and tariffs that inflate the cost of plain old phone service.
For the Jets, the 2013 off-season will be about whether they recognize the old economics idiom that sunk cost are sunk.
He said that by not offering new salaried posts, the cost of the PCC would be less than the cost of the old Suffolk Police Authority's members.
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The assumption is that if African purchasing power remains relatively constant over the next few years and the cost of imported replacement weapons remains significantly higher than the cost of the old stuff, total numbers will decline over time.
New federal safety regulations kicking in later this year will load expensive recordkeeping tasks on companies like Penske--at the same time as tougher pollution regs require them to replace retiring four- to six-year-old trucks with units that cost 10% to 15% more.
For example cathode ray tubes those monstrous glass blobs found behind the housings of all of our old TVs and monitors, cost far more to process properly and safely than the value they can produce from the lead, copper and glass in them.
Single-sourcing space transportation capability will just result in a new monopoly and will evolve the same cost structure as the old.
This rapid turnover creates rapid replacement costs and raises questions about how to decommission and dispose of old hardware, which can also cost money.
Would this outweigh the cost of digitizing the old books?
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The top right illustration from the January 20 Yomiuri Shimbun presents the three big old age social programs by the cost of each in the FY 2011 budget proposal.
The Telegram reported that, because of the cost of maintaining the old tracks, the Southwest Chief may, within the next several years, be switched to an entirely different BNSF route, farther south.
Cartwright did not say how much the new plan would cost compared with the old one, but pointed out that Patriot and SM-3 missiles were significantly cheaper than the interceptors the Bush proposal relied on.
For example, rather than purchase expensive ultra-efficient motors, low cost opportunistic additions to old fans and pumps such as variable frequency drives and demand controls can deliver equal energy savings at a fraction of the cost.
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The Old Republic, created at huge cost, launched to considerable fanfare in late 2011, but could not sustain its subscription-only model and, although profitable, is now largely free-to-play, as is the EA-published FunCom MMO The Secret World.
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"We didn't know beforehand that next year's race was going to cost more, " said 29-year-old Wei Jen Lim, a Midtown West resident who competed Saturday, of the 34% cost increase.
Their spread--paid for in cash--cost a quarter of their old San Jose bungalow.
Though Theresa May, the home secretary, gamely insists that the new system should cost no more than the old one, others are less sanguine.
On Cerro Concepcion, an old mansion in need of renovation can cost around 250 million Chilean pesos, while a house on Cerro Bellavista can cost around 100 million pesos.
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