China can offer low-cost, cheaply financed electric plants, transmission lines and other infrastructure to sweeten its deals for mineral resources in poor countries.
The large range in power plant CCS is due to the increasing cost as cheaply available old mines run out.
(One possible reason why it has resisted up to now launching a low-cost, more cheaply made handset).
Among the beautiful volumes that could only have been afforded by the seriously wealthy, there is a case of books which cost pennies but, cheaply printed on thin paper, are now equally rare.
If young firms are to survive near-terminal mistakes, or fluctuating demand, they need to be able to reduce staff costs quickly and cheaply when necessary.
Because machines and foreign workers can perform the same work more cheaply, the cost of production falls.
There is also the sobering reality that nearly all the most promising results so far could have been achieved at similar cost - or more cheaply - with older technology or better management.
Companies setting up shop in China face domestic manufacturers that consistently undercut them by building factories at practically no cost, borrowing the money cheaply from state-owned Chinese banks and using various strategies to avoid repayment.
Since the carbon source employed in the culture medium has high share in the substrate cost, the exploitation of cheaply renewable agricultural residues has been strongly stimulated.
Now people whose plans have been cancelled can generally get better insurance than they had, and (in terms of total costs, not premiums) more cheaply.
"After several months we came up with the technology of how to produce LA on an industrial scale, meaning cheaply and cost-effectively.
