On the marketing side, the home-shopping cable channels have 24 hours to fill, and, on a smaller scale, niche gadget retailers can easily set up Internet storefronts and pick up traffic from the gadget blogs.
Whereas the CCGT has been used for an increasing number of new power plants during the past 15 years, the fluidised bed has struggled to attract attention outside a small-scale niche.
Existing battery technologies tend to be used mostly in small-scale, niche renewable projects, often because they're too expensive to use in bigger systems, according to Paul Denholm, a senior analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. .
Again, the state steps in to decree what's good for porn-loving factory workers and the like; again, small-scale niche businesses will suffer while corporations will toe the line and flourish; again, seemingly arbitrary criteria are used to judge what is fit for human consumption.
Again, the state steps in to decree what's good for porn-loving factory workers and the like; again, small-scale niche business will suffer while profit-focused corporations will toe the line and flourish; again, seemingly arbitrary criteria is used to judge what is fit for human consumption.
The patchy coverage of GBIF data, even over small geographic scales was illustrated by a small scale environmental niche modelling study of Cyclamen [11] that compared data from GBIF with detailed extent of occurrence maps to predict lineage extinction risk.
Nevertheless, this process is relevant for small scale and niche applications such as (micro) fuel cells, electrochemical sensors or stimulation electrodes in which material properties are more important than material costs.
Respondents were also asked to indicate their attitudes about a group of four forest industry options: biomass/biofuels power generation, large scale timber processing, small scale timber processing, and niche marketing/production of wood products (responses ranged from 1 (strongly oppose) to 5 (strongly support)).
While geopolymer concrete has good strength and excellent material greenness, applications have been limited to niche or small scale applications.
New technologies are needed for smaller scale, remote and niche applications to match many natural gas resources that will not be suitable for large-scale production of distillate products via syngas.
Its small scale feels right.
