But zinc demand has exploded with the building and construction boom here and overseas, not to mention the fact that a typical automobile uses nearly 40 pounds of zinc in it.
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While a typical incandescent bulb uses 60 watts of power to generate light, the current state of LED technology can produce the same light for less than 10 watts.
The process is also capable of transforming virtually all plant matter into liquid fuel, whereas typical ethanol refining uses only the fatty acids that make up around 10 percent of the mass of dried plants.
The Aluminum Association, an industry group, mentioned in its report that a typical lightweight automobile uses around 330 pounds of aluminum and estimated that aluminum will contribute close to 500 pounds in lightweight autos going forward.
The left's candidate, ex-mayor of a town once known as Italy's Stalingrad, could scarcely be more typical of the ex-communisti Mr Berlusconi uses as bogeymen to scare the middle classes.
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Instead, it merely copies the encrypted file and uses the same player technology installed in a typical hardware DVD player to read it.
The TaxiBot, though, uses just 20-30 litres of fuel for a typical trip.
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To avoid the typical, ho-hum answers, one company, The New England Consulting Group, uses a methodology called Super Groups.
Unlike a typical shopping comparison site--which gets its content from merchants-- FatLens has another approach: it uses technology to crawl and spider the Web to index e-tailers.
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