As the industry shifts from large central plants to a diverse collection of windmills and biogas generators, managing the complex balance of supply and demand will require fat communications pipes and complex calculations.
The problems of climate change, peak oil, food security and the demand for economic and political justice require us to deploy all our resources together in order to create a resilient world in which our grandchildren can thrive.
We need to speak out and demand the flexibility we require and then show the world that we can out-produce anyone.
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If the notebooks and netbooks market can grow close to its historical growth rate of 24% based on increasing needs professionally for mobile computers that may require more functionality than tablets offer and continued surging demand growth in emerging markets, this figure could reach around 900 million units by the end of the Trefis forecast period, implying 30% to our price estimate.
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What this modern connectivity does not require is patience, which is what fishing and hunting demand perhaps above all.
Foreclosures have ground to a halt in the Kings County courts in Brooklyn as judges demand definitive documentation from lenders and require lawyers to place their license on the line by attesting to their accuracy (few do).
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And programs to cut household demand almost certainly require price changes by the hour, if not the minute.
Arguably more than any other government agencies, their missions require a fabric of utility computing that scales on demand and enables self discovery and self-service access to secure, timely and relevant information in support of mission: individual or shared.
The Online Communication and Geolocation Protection Act would require a warrant before the government could demand access to any emails or to documents stored in the cloud.
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This creates demand for research infrastructure as professors and advanced science students require computing resources for research projects.
She says demand for lower prices and increased rental and labour costs now require greater skill from businesses if they are to be profitable.
In the NBP, the Commission projected that explosive increases in mobile demand would require 300 Mhz. of new spectrum by 2015, and 500 Mhz. by 2020.
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Not only will federal workers cost more to sustain each year, but as career employees their positions will require a long-term commitment to health and retirement benefits that contractors do not demand.
This workforce -- which is in high demand today -- will require professionals who understand how to develop and harness data-crunching technologies such as Watson, and put them to use for solving the most pressing of business and societal needs.
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Furthermore, because power plants such as coal and nuclear require many hours to either ramp up or down in response to demand shifts, natural gas plants are preferred because they can be turned up or down in a matter of minutes This has implications for both power costs, and for system reliability.
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As demand for unskilled labor continues to shrink and even the lowest-level jobs require skills beyond what most eighteen-year-olds graduate with, most of them will enter the labor market completely unprepared and essentially clueless as to how to interact with the marketplace.
Similarly, the United States would be well advised to require in such new negotiations a demand that the former Soviet republics substantially increase their disclosure of vital economic and financial data.
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To keep the commission in check, this will require the signatures of two judges: one to safeguard the right to freedom of expression and another to authorise a demand for the suspected perpetrator's details from the internet service provider.
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