But for the UNHCR and other agencies that care for the displaced, this was only the latest of many cases where the high ideals of international law run up against the realities of power politics.
That creates business for renewable energy companies as well as economies of scale that in the long run can lower the cost of green power.
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Maybe the new crop of female Senators and the record number of female committee heads will spark an uptick in political aspirations among college-age women, or maybe the next generation of female leaders has cannily surmised that the path to power is more apt to run through the C-suite than the halls of Congress.
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In contrast to the depletion economics that drive up the cost of fossil fuels over the long run, solar power is a Silicon Valley-style energy resource: the more we make, the more we learn, innovate and lower the cost of the technology.
The use of human muscle generates mere fractions of the power required to run these facilities.
"The dam is being built in the middle of the river so you can't carry out construction work while the river flowed, " Mihret Debebe, chief executive officer of the state-run Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation, told the Reuters news agency.
But I believe with every fiber of my being that in the long run we also cannot keep this country safe unless we enlist the power of our most fundamental values.
But there comes a point when the market will run out of shrugging power.
One big problem is the amount of energy that needs to be sucked out of a power plant to run the equipment that grabs carbon.
To find the best possible combination for the seven options they identified, one should run 128 experiments (or 2 to the power of 7).
After all, their fuel is free, whereas the bills of power stations that run on coal and natural gas are high and rising.
In the long run Japan will also replace its shortfall of nuclear power with larger imports of gas, boosting the fortunes of countries like Brunei and Qatar.
The government of Thailand has run up against similar limits to its power to control the international Web.
Pennsylvania officials recommend that counties have enough paper ballots for 20% to 25% of expected voters, Mr. Ruman said, who added that many of the touch-screen voting machines could run on battery power for at least part of Election Day.
Not solar and wind, but a relatively obscure type of hydroelectric power that is quickly becoming all the rage: run of river.
Intel is pushing its mobile processor line, dubbed Atom, as a way to cram the ability to run a bite-sized, power-sipping version of the chips that power desktop computers into ever smaller devices.
It later submitted another analysis showing the reactor could run at 100 percent power, but the research found the risk of a tube break could reach unacceptable levels after 11 months.
It's a tricky balancing act to pull off, and lots could go wrong -- for instance, it's not exactly clear how smooth it will be to switch between the two types of Windows, or if you'll even be able to get the old Windows on certain types of tablets (that is, tablets that run the power-efficient ARM processors used by the iPad and most other tablets today).
Frankly, I believe that solid oxide fuel cells are the better technology in the long run, but Fuel Cell Energy owns 43% of the shares of VERSA Power that also makes solid oxide fuel cells.
Much work is left to get the proteins producing the kind of silicon or titanium dioxides that could run a computer or power your house, but the dream is to have synthetic creations that organically produce what would normally need a mining expedition -- imagine something akin to the glass-like Venus' Flower Basket sponge (pictured above) sitting in an Intel factory.
It is certainly possible under heavy use to run out of power during the course of a day.
It is hard to see how Mr Erdogan's lot can be kept out of power in the longer run (a general election is due by April 2004 at the latest) unless parliament passed a bill to lower the threshold to let other parties in.
At Apple's annual Macworld event on January 10th, Steve Jobs, the company's chief executive, unveiled what many fans had been expecting: the first Macintosh computers based on chips made by Intel, which also power the vast majority of personal computers that run Microsoft's Windows operating system.
The two principal reasons were that generators used for backup power cannot run when underwater, and many of the wired lines carrying signals from the towers to the networks were knocked out by wind and trees.
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The newspapers were full of articles on solar power, fusion and converting the economy to run on fuel cells and hydrogen.
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In addition to repairs, workers will increase the number of systems and services that the Triumph and other Carnival ships can run on backup power.
Red Bull will accept that they are likely to get passed by a McLaren or Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari, who have the benefit of the kinetic energy recovery system (Kers) power boost on the run down to the first corner.
The media also covered this development: Palin also just hired a lawyer to represent her during investigations of whether there was an abuse of power when her aides pressured the head of the state police to run her former brother-in-law off the force.
Yet Intel and Sun face a potential threat from the upstart Transmeta, whose chips run only 75% as fast but suck only 20% of the power.
As he nears retirement, Chambers, 63, is trying to establish Cisco as the go-to place for a wide range of technology products and services that help power the Internet, run data centers, deliver video and connect wireless devices.
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