Extremely useful still for freight but less so for the movement of people over long distances.
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These costs also, of course, feed through into the costs of anything traded over long distances.
But modern drip irrigation uses underground computerized probes and long plastic tubes to slowly release water over long distances.
The zero emissions London taxi looks and performs just like a conventional taxi, even over long distances.
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New technology has permitted the intimacy that used to be possible only within a cluster to take place over long distances.
They are straight and wide and seem to go on for ever, perfect for cruising over long distances, powered by big lazy engines.
It leads in supplying data storage devices that connect to host computers via optical fibre networks to transmit masses of data over long distances.
Hard-core decentralists deny that power must be transmitted over long distances.
High-voltage DC can carry power over long distances at lower cost than alternating current, but the transformers still cost too much to make the idea widespread.
Even the most superficial stock-taking leads to similar conclusions: Important constraints currently exist on the United States' ability to project power effectively and swiftly over long distances.
The Qingdao review did include an interesting addition to China's fleet, a Yuzhao-class amphibious-assault ship, which could be used to dispatch troops and helicopters over long distances.
In military operations (especially in the Balkans), Britain enjoys a close relationship with France, the only other European country that aspires to project power over long distances.
It leads in supplying data storage devices that connect to host computers via optical fibre networks to transmit masses of data over long distances without clogging up other operations.
With more than 700 patents to his name, Tesla invented radio, the coil transformer, wireless communication, fluorescent lights and the alternating-current motor, which allowed electricity to flow over long distances.
Crosswave uses synchronous optical network (sonet) and wavelength division multiplexing (dwdm) technologies, which enable it to transmit data at high speeds over long distances with a high degree of reliability.
Said microchip is designed to be integrated into essentially any device (a set-top-box, router, TV, toaster oven, etc.), enabling the host device to deliver H.264 compressed HD streams over long distances.
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Blanco plans to turn the case study into a Web-based tool to help other companies calculate and potentially reduce the energy consumption of products moved over long distances by multiple means of transport.
The problem is that the intensity of the radio waves needed to charge mobile phones and laptop computers over long distances might be hazardous to human health, and regulators would be unlikely to approve.
The Supreme Court decided in 1853 that Morse could keep the patent on his innovative method for transmitting telegraph signals over long distances, but not the fundamental scientific principle that electricity can transmit information.
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That signal will enable warfighters in armored vehicles and light trucks to transmit information at a rate in excess of two megabits per second over long distances despite the presence of geographical obstacles that often block communications.
The family also tells him that they have installed a blanket around the water heater and resisted buying a larger house, and that they try to buy local food that doesn't have to be shipped over long distances.
The proximity of offshore wind in the the Atlantic Ocean to deep demand centers avoids the problems of moving power over long distances and significantly enhances the economic fundamentals of mega projects like those currently being considered in North Carolina.
With the necessary computing power within reach, and adequate broadband to send that much information over long distances, the final obstacle to developing true holographic video systems is finding a projector or display with fine enough resolution to produce a hologram.
The result is a list of roads where drivers open their throttles over fairly long distances.
Its technology has been designed to give people high speed access to the net over relatively long distances.
The new nerve connections did not occur over the long distances required to connect the brain to the spinal cord.
That is to say, quantum interactions occur instantaneously over arbitrarily long distances.
All these things have in common the fact that they don't weigh very much and are cheap to move, even over very long distances.
Dr Lieu supposed that light, travelling over very long distances, would have to spread out a bit if there was any uncertainty in time.
For the most part, America's fleet of C-17s and aging C-5 cargo planes has held up relatively well, even as they labor to support demanding combat operations over exceedingly long distances.
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