As expected, cost-conscious consumers favored discount chains over costlier stores this weekend, according to the survey, conducted by BIGresearch.
Storing a high fraction of the total exergy as heat allows reducing the capacity of costly pressure stores in the system and replacing it with cheaper thermal energy stores.
Southern Californians are busy people, so it's no surprise that waiting in long lines at crowded and costly specialty stores or attempting to navigate enormous warehouses for weekly groceries seems like just another hassle.
And they can be costly to store and insure.
However, gas is unlike most commodities, for it is difficult to handle and costly to store and transport.
Reprocessing also produces plutonium that can be used in weapons, which is much more costly to store and safeguard than the spent fuel from which it is separated.
A proposal to move the firearms counter away from the toy department might be too costly, but store officials will look into it, he said.
Auto parts tend to be large and expensive, so it is costly to store inventories near assembly plants just in case they are needed.
"They are dangerous and costly to store and maintain....We can make the world, and our country, safer by reducing spending on these programs that we haven't used in 69 years and are better suited for the Cold War than the strategic challenges we face today".
