And the plentiful water supplied by irrigation dams encourages farmers to use relatively wasteful watering techniques, spraying vast quantities of water across fields (where much of it evaporates), instead of more efficient drip irrigation or other methods.Worst of all, dams have reduced or wiped out the grand salmon runs.
Whereas phage can act essentially as a colicin-style nonmultiplicative killer when their carriers are numerically dominant, they do so in a less efficient manner due to their relatively wasteful capacity for replication (e.g. effective colicin 'burst-size' is at least 10-fold greater, Gordon and Riley 1999).
While solid phase chemical synthesis methods can provide oligonucleotides for a myriad of biomolecular and nanotechnology applications, the process is relatively slow and wasteful where only small quantities are required.
Despite improvements and automation in standard solid phase phosphoramidite chemistry, oligonucleotide synthesis remains a relatively inefficient, expensive and wasteful process, where the scale of synthesis may be many thousands of times the minute quantities required for a single PCR or sequencing reaction.
Malta is the least wasteful country, with the relatively little excess of 25,000 tonnes per year.
Band and frame saws have relatively thin blades and are therefore less wasteful than circular saws.
Moreover, relatively few seem to think that cutting this wasteful spending will require painful decisions.
However, in case of large networks, like VANET, the designed protocol cannot scale with the size of the network and it can be extremely wasteful, especially if the destination node is relatively close to the source node.
In spite of the demand for oligonucleotide primers, their synthesis remains relatively expensive, time consuming and in many circumstances a wasteful process.
The current academic pyramid model, with its self-replicating professors dependent on short-term grants and relatively cheap student and postdoc labor, is, like the nation's dependence on fossil fuel, highly wasteful, damaging, and ultimately unsustainable.
More importantly, a great many eukaryotic genomes are not that large and only minimally more wasteful (in terms of the size--and hence the replication cost--of the genome itself) than the (relatively) large genomes of prokaryotes.
