Give them up and the cost in terms of power, weight and influence for Britain would be infinitely greater.
Goliath huffs and puffs and prepares to squash David.com as if it were a bug, planning to destroy it with reach and power and weight.
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The reason Boeing has stated for using these batteries in the first place was their promise of more power for less weight.
The Defense Department has consistently pursued solutions to lighten the load, from exoskeletons to unmanned vehicles that would serve as "pack mules, " to the elusive quest for higher power, lower weight batteries.
At 5 feet 8 and 141 pounds, Ye has better power-to-weight ratio than counterparts in other countries, he said.
But the court ruling showed that regulators' power may carry more weight now.
But by any reckoning, India's weight and power preclude taking up that question.
Newly designed Australian army vests will be equipped with paper-thin, flexible and lightweight solar-cells with very high power-to-weight ratios.
The key factor in terms of better handling and acceleration, meaning more immediate pleasure in driving, is the power-to-weight ratio.
The 700-horesepower V12 is cut like a body builder, with the highest power-to-weight ratio of any car in its class.
That can cut down on the cost of deployment, owing to the lower weight, power consumption and bulk of the equipment.
BMW, is stuffed with details about the carburettors and power-to-weight ratios of almost every model that the Bavarian manufacturer has ever produced.
At Smiley's, you get a 750hp dirt dragster with about the highest power-to-weight ratio of anything this side of a jet (see sidebar).
At Smiley's, you get a 750hp dirt dragster that has about the highest power-to-weight ratio of anything this side of a fighter jet (see box, p. 153).
But until recently they have suffered from a low power-to-weight ratio, unlike the other sort of room-temperature fuel cell, the temperamental and costly proton-exchange-membrane device, which several firms hope soon to use in motor cars.
The LED backlighting of the EA244WMi allows for a slimmer profile, lighter weight and increased power savings compared to previous generation models.
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It also means more efficient power usage and significantly less weight in future Haswell-equipped notebooks, and the ability to play modern games and drive a 4K display with upcoming ultrabooks.
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The new Lenovo IdeaPad S Series laptops give everyday consumers exactly what they need by matching small size and light weight with the power needed for everything from Web browsing to productivity tasks, all in an affordable package.
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To meet the need for low weight and high power output, the designers opted for the same lithium ion technology as used in the batteries of most modern smartphones and laptop computers, where the demands are rather similar, but on a much smaller scale.
The Zumwalt has the power, cooling, space and weight margin designed to meet the full spectrum of future threats, both known and unknown.
That's a weight-to-power ratio of 8.21 pounds per horsepower (a little better than the Porsche 911 Carrera's) in a footprint the size of a Porsche Boxster.
After all, both are what made her, just as Giselle Bundchen, a Forbes No. 72 Power Woman who reportedly lost her baby weight in all of six weeks.
Last week, IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people) decided not to use Transmeta's (nasdaq: TMTA - news - people) new low-power Crusoe chips in its lighter-weight ThinkPad notebook computers.
The result should be a cell that will, weight for weight, put out as much power as a diesel engine.
"That's going to add to the weight of the trees, to the power lines, " Heitkamp said.
But designers soon found that the size, weight, cost and torque needed to power the machine would be too great.
The real thrill of these little cars is the power--remember, they have the same weight but five times the horsepower of the slowpoke Skip Barber school's racing cars.
The real thrill of these little cars is the power--remember, they have the same weight but five times the horsepower of the Skip Barber school's slowpoke racing cars.
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