Unlike other metals where production has been taken offline, there's no idle capacity in the nickel industry.
With a jobless rate of 10.2% and oodles of idle capacity, America still faces a bigger threat from deflation than from inflation.
Mr Eyzaguirre reckons that, once the world is growing again, Chile's idle capacity will allow it two years of rapid growth before structural reforms need to kick in.
Firms may be less likely to increase investment when they have idle capacity and when they are less confident about the future demand for their products and services.
Much of the idle capacity could be brought back online quickly if oil companies chose to meet Renewable Fuels Standard obligations with E85 and midlevel blends rather than stockpiled RINs.
Secondly, Saudi Arabia has said repeatedly that it is ready to bring to life its idle capacity, which far exceeds the Iraqi shortfall, to ensure that the oil markets are not pushed to crisis by Iraq.
Even so, the Saudis not only sit atop the cheapest and largest reserves of oil in the world, but remain the only country willing to maintain large amounts of idle capacity something profit-minded Russian oilmen such as Yukos's Mr Kukes would never do.
Unfortunately for their hypothesis, not only are we are at the end of a thirty-year period of deregulation and falling taxes, but the private sector already has plenty of idle workers and capacity.
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Unemployment is still rising and much manufacturing capacity remains idle.
Its galloping GDP growth, 8.8% in both 2003 and 2004, owes a lot to high soyabean prices and the use of capacity left idle by the economic collapse in 2001-02.
For example, one-quarter of existing industrial capacity is currently idle.
According to our customers and most analysts, private data centres are using as little as 20 per cent of their server capacity, but even at idle these servers consume 60-70 per cent of their power.
During the day, the New York server runs at capacity while the Boston server sits idle.
Also, Chinese idle production of steel is greater than the production capacity of Japan and South Korea combined.
In those downturns there was a huge industrial capacity in this country that had been laid idle.
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He recently threatened to expropriate some 700 idle firms, along with more than 1, 000 working below capacity, unless their owners resumed full production.
Limited fracturing capacity had resulted in a number of wells being drilled and left idle.
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More effort by BPA to link this new capacity to grids in California and British Columbia could have avoided the need to idle those wind turbines, or so a number of power experts reckon.
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