Macaques that spent a lot of time within 1.5 meters of each other were considered friends, since it is easy to attack another macaque at this distance.
China has a lot of electricity meters, and a majority of global meters are manufactured in China.
If people really wanted to, they could spend a lot of time getting around the wall, so it is not so firm a meter.
"There's a lot of square meters of roof available for solar panels," said Mr. Geraedts, noting that because most European churches were built east to west, they had south-facing roofs, which is optimal for generating energy in the Northern Hemisphere.
With a worldwide production of about 865 tons (i.e 865 million grams) of cocaine a year, that's a lot of square meters of deforestation.
In 2006, exasperated by roof leaks and cockroach infestations, they bought a breezy vacant lot of 100 square meters, or 1,076 square feet, near the Red River and the next year commissioned Le Tien, an architect and friend, to design a concrete home.
This pointless fixation (lots of parking meters don't even take change anymore) means not only that I am irrationally satisfied when the $5.07 for my coffee and bagel nets me 93 cents in change (three quarters!), it also ensures that my purse is always heavy enough to be used either as a weapon of self-defense...or a boat anchor.
Peter Earl, head of energy at website comparethemarket, told Money that there remains a lot of mistrust around the meters, particularly as the millions of households with SMETS 1 meters are set to be "left in switching limbo".
I used to work on the electricity board and I did a lot of kneeling, fitting electric meters so we spent half of the time kneeling on the floor in the old terrace properties, and I think that is where it initially started from mainly.
"We used to get a lot of complaints about our meters failing to work," he added.
