Those gains take two forms: less electricity consumption and a lower cost per unit of processing power.
But they could look at the, for instance, three cents that a given patent would cost them per unit and decide if it was really worth inventing their own work around.
Airlines would face an even higher cost on a per unit basis.
The solar mission in its first phase focused on areas already connected to the grid and had a pricing system that bundled four units of thermal electricity with one unit of solar-based power, which reduced the average per-unit cost of solar electricity.
At the same time, my one person plan had the highest per unit cost.
Alternatively, if your space and budget permit, you could investigate buying in bulk from vendors in order to lower your per unit cost.
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"So, the permeability of reverse osmosis membrane is key to improving capacity per unit cost--or on a capex basis, " said Jeff Green, CEO of NanoH2O.
Common sense would dictate this kind of increased volume of sq inches purchased from their display supply chain should yield some substantial discounting on the per unit cost of the display for an iPhone and an iPad!
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For example, when the B-1A program was restarted to produce the B-1B, the per unit cost of the B-1B was three-times higher than the B-1A. Importantly, the B-1B was a modification (albeit a significant one) of the A-model and a gap of just 18 months occurred in the production line.
Economies of scale are the cost savings associated with a larger production size of certain product, the larger the production scale, the lower the per unit product cost.
Alvarez is banking that fewer, more robust partnerships will yield economies of scale: As each distributor carries more product into stores, the overall per-unit cost of distribution will drop.
Economies of scale are the cost savings associated with a larger production scale (size) of certain product, the larger the production scale, the lower the per unit product cost.
These indie authors are earning 60, 70, 80 percent of the retail prices as their royalty, so they are able to sell lower cost ebooks, but still earn a higher per unit royalty per ebook than they would if they were working with a traditional publisher.
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But though retail prices are higher at physical retailers, the margins per unit may be smaller when factoring in the cost of packaging and shipping for a physical game.
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Cost per average seat mile (CASM), a key measure of unit costs, rose 10.5% to 12.26 cents.
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This extreme density reduces, per a given unit of work, the datacenter size, energy consumption, complexity and cost.
However, a spokesperson for Enron told the BBC that the average price of power per unit sold to the state government in the last year came to five Rupees and the cost will come down further once the Dabhol Power Co becomes a fully gas-based plant.
In the report, National Bank projected that fourth-quarter unit labor cost (ULC) inflation in the U.S. would come in at 4 per cent on a quarter-over-quarter basis or 2.1 per cent year-over-year.
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