Debt becomes more of a problem when it is used to fund current consumption.
Pantech applied Qualcomm's quad-core SnapDragon S4 Pro to minimize current consumption and improve power efficiency.
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Domestic supplies of technically recoverable oil could fuel 200 years of usage at current consumption rates.
By investing (and saving), a country sacrifices current consumption but future output and consumption will be higher.
Inventories for coal, copper and iron ore as well as oil are too high based on current consumption.
In addition, LNG exports (for which permits exceeding 60% of current consumption have been sought) may be enormous.
U.S. gas reserves are estimated to last 100 years at current consumption rates.
This argument is generally applied to the prices of goods and services for current consumption by households or businesses.
Given current consumption of the metal, this is sufficient for only 13 years and less than that if CIGS technology takes-off.
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Right now the nation has 760 gigawatts of power plants to meet current consumption, with another 154 in reserve capacity to maintain grid reliability.
On the demand side, LNG exports are set to boom in coming years (requested permits are equivalent to more than 60% of current consumption).
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Squeezing down current consumption and encouraging maximum saving and investment produces a higher growth rate and higher standard of living some time in the future.
BP's annual review of the world's energy resources showed that proven oil reserves were big enough to meet current consumption rates for another 40 years.
They argue by process of elimination, since their dataset lacks household spending data, that households must spend the vast majority of their extracted funds on current consumption.
You can think of it as the interest rate that will induce you to put off a dollar of current consumption for a dollar plus interest next year.
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Using the EIA numbers, President Barack Obama, in his state-of-the-union speech in January, said that America now has nearly 100 years of gas supplies at current consumption rates.
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It has been estimated that about 25 tons of helium-3, equal to just one payload of a space shuttle, would provide enough energy for the U.S. for a year at current consumption levels.
This will affect oil prices, with Business Week estimating that Japan will have to add at least 300, 000 barrels per day to its current consumption of 4.4 million barrels a day to compensate.
For one thing, if governments try to force people to save more than they want, the savers may try to offset this either by reducing non-mandatory saving or by borrowing to maintain their current consumption.
As noted in previous posts, current consumption figures do not reflect the expected growth in areas such as chemical industry feedstocks, or power generation (where most new fossil-based supply will come from highly efficient gas-fired generators).
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The bottom line is that in the early 2000s households reported spending very little of the money they borrowed against their homes on current consumption and instead used the money to repay debt and make residential and other household investments.
Rosen cautioned that consumption may slip in the second quarter because so many of the gains in the first quarter came from motor vehicle purchases, but he said that the trend should remain up as long as consumers perceive that future income growth can subsidize current consumption.
Even if the recovery rate is doubled or quadrupled, it would take care of perhaps two years of current US consumption.
Judging by the number of liquid natural gas (LNG) export permits being sought in the last two years (equal to over 60% of current domestic consumption), this export role is entirely feasible.
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Federal acreage onshore and offshore holds more than 2, 000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas (about 75 years worth of current domestic consumption) and 229 billion barrels of oil (about 50 years worth).
This would be enough to meet domestic demand for 170 years at the current level of consumption.
Yosano has advocated an increase in the current 5 percent consumption tax.
Experts think suddenly accessible formations like the Barnett Shale will provide more than a 100-year supply at current rates of consumption in North America.
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