Sentence examples for obsolete capital from inspiring English sources

Hempling emphasizes that utilities are also not entitled to recover the cost of obsolete capital equipment.

But many economists reckon that this currently overstates capacity because it fails to adjust for obsolete capital equipment and a faster pace of scrapping.

He argued that older capital stock is more vulnerable to natural disasters, and thus the upgradation of these obsolete capital equipments may trigger a positive productivity shock that may reshape the whole economy with better efficiencies in producing goods and services.

Might today's pumped storage schemes become obsolete before capital outlay is repaid?

It makes obsolete yesterday's capital equipment and capital investment.

But innovation in Schumpeter's famous phrase is also "creative destruction". It makes obsolete yesterday's capital equipment and capital investment.

Finding a match in which older workers can use their (probably relatively obsolete) specific human capital may be a problem if the whole sector is declining.

They may render big chunks of the capital stock obsolete: many idle car factories, for example, may never reopen.

It also mitigates the risk of obsolete inventory, blocking of capital in inventories, etc. Eventually cost reduction is the ultimate benefit Lean.

That is, they could recite the price of a bin of resistors, but knew nothing about the costs of ordering or inspecting the parts, throwing out obsolete ones, tying up capital in inventory or shutting down assembly lines when tiny parts were out of stock.

The new dreadnought battleship design, which debuted in December 1906 with the completion of the namesake ship, rendered the Brazilian ships, and all other existing capital ships, obsolete.