Predict and provide, the old policy under which roads were built to meet projected demand, may be dead.
"The supply chain is not in great shape, and people aren't sure projected demand reflects real demand, " Sue said.
That, however, is well in excess of even optimistically projected demand.
As its chairman, Sir Alastair Morton, has made clear, many billions of pounds need to be invested in the railways by the government, as well as private investors, over the next decade to meet projected demand for rail services by both passengers and freight.
"The assessment concludes that California will experience difficulties meeting its projected electricity demand this summer, and California electricity users will experience rotating blackouts, much more so than last summer or this past winter, " said Michehl R.
To meet projected food demand by 2050, when the world's population will have grown from 7 billion now to about 9 billion, it says global agricultural production will need to grow 60% above the level of 2007.
Wilson projected that global demand growth will average 7.6% annually from 2010 to 2105 compared to 5.5% over the last decade.
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At the projected rates of demand, energy related CO2 emissions will rise 45 percent from 28 gigatons now to 41 gigatons by 2030.
Demand is projected to grow faster than it has in the past, so consumption will eat through this new metal.
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Over the next 25 years, 90% of the projected growth in global energy demand comes from non-core economies.
Since 2000, oil prices have risen relentlessly under the strain of an equally relentless rise in demand that is projected to last for decades.
The statement from GFMS did not say whether the projected increase in gold jewelry demand will remain regionalized or whether the tough conditions in the US, EU and the Middle East will continue for 2011.
It might seem the perfect storm: the prospect of less reliable harvests, a growing world population and demand for food projected by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to rise 70% by mid-century.
In the NBP, the Commission projected that explosive increases in mobile demand would require 300 Mhz. of new spectrum by 2015, and 500 Mhz. by 2020.
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Considering the projected growth of the cloud storage market, the demand for speedy memory may be insatiable.
China's demand for iron ore and coal will underwrite projected growth of 3-4% in 2011-12.
Next year, even though vacancy rates will rise to 9.5%, rents are projected to increase by another 11% amid strong corporate demand in China's business capital.
But he said Syriza -- which was projected to win 71 seats -- would continue to demand "from the position of the opposition" that the bailouts be scrapped.
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Projected need is 30% more energy by 2030, not a demand that can be met through mere conservation.
Figure 2 shows unit demand growth and contraction trends for various HDD applications from 2008 projected through 2012.
Coal already supplies 50% of U.S. electricity--and watch for U.S. demand to exceed the government's modest 1.3% projected increase in 2006.
While other applications for HDDs (enterprise and consumer uses) seem to expand and contract with economic and supply trends, HDDs for personal computers, and in particular for notebook computers, experienced a steady decline in demand (from about 28% unit shipment growth in 2008 to a projected 5% decline in shipments in 2012).
In the fourth quarter, demand for PC memory will remain weak but DRAM for mobile devices and servers is projected to keep growing with the introduction of new products and a boom in the smartphone business.
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While this could be detrimental to the projected global PC growth this year, we feel there are a number of other factors that could fuel demand for Intel-inspired PCs in the future.
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