This takes us into serious crunching - and we have to look to people who've studied the problem on a big scale.
He says this will create regional jobs, increase resource security, reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, increase material efficiency and prevent carbon emissions and industrial waste - all on a big scale.
Our first virtual town hall of the hour is in Kokomo, Indiana, population 45, 000, four Chrysler plants, Delphi electronics, manufacturing on a big scale, but in a sector, cars, that's shrinking.
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Just being the head of a network and working on such a big scale, there is a sense of sometimes you think about the marketing first, or external people are looking for things to monetize and exploit.
And there could be retailing of equity stakes - that is, aimed at the small-scale investor wanting to take a punt on a small-scale company with a big idea.
But we also must look for big ideas on a small scale that can provide viable livelihoods for those in the greatest need while creating incentives to preserve the most threatened habitats in the world.
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It is the same lesson learned, albeit on a smaller scale, by certain other big time football programs when their head coaches fell from grace.
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It purchased bank shares (on a far bigger scale) in September 2008, the first of a flurry of rescue measures, culminating in a big stimulus package two months later.
The flipside of this is that Mr Stern shuns the traditional approach of doing local deals, as big employers nowadays tend to operate on at least a national scale.
But the sober message about wind and solar applies to all renewables: All renewables, much as I love them, deliver only a small power per unit area, so if we want renewable facilities to supply power on a scale at all comparable to our consumption, those facilities must be big.
We know well by now that although big foundations, just like governments, can do good by acting on a large scale, they can also, just like governments, become bogged down by bureaucracy and waste.
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has made clear the unique benefits of big banking, but the full consequences of riding roughshod over private property rights on such a scale remain to be pointed out.
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Although the process is being tested on a small-scale right now, project lead and University of Warwick engineering professor Jan Baeyens is thinking big.
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