consumption
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The facilities will operate as what the companies on Monday called flexible energy assets, supporting power grids by modulating consumption and leveraging on-site generation and storage.
Alongside risks to inflation, the conflict could dent confidence, keeping household savings elevated and weighing on consumption.
Around 70% of Japan’s consumption of naphtha, a key feedstock for plastics, comes from the Middle East.
Western companies are betting that global consumption of the fuel will rise for decades even as economies try to wean themselves off other fossil fuels.
What could we learn if we thought about movies outside of a straight stream of consumption, and what are we missing by relegating movie-watching to such an automatic process?
From Salon
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