At first, "fabless" firms paid larger chip makers for the use of spare capacity in their factories.
It makes use of spare car seats in the way that Airbnb makes money from spare bedrooms or Moocs (massively open online courses) share lectures.
It is Minimalist in its use of spare textures and stripped-down themes, and maximalist in its harmonies, which embrace dissonance but convey it delicately.
Now, thanks to the cloud's ability to cheaply connect a lot of people and information over a broad array of devices, a similar use of spare resources is going on elsewhere in the economy.
In health, for example, the government intends to make use of spare capacity in the private sector and to use private health managers to run some of the new stand-alone surgery centres it is setting up.In education, the government wants to encourage more new schools like the privately sponsored "city academies".
And building copies of Chrysler's worldwide hits, such as Jeeps, in idling Italian factories is a way to make use of spare capacity that Italy's politics make it hard for Fiat to close.Europe's depressed car market is not the only reason Fiat needs Chrysler.
Again, this was despite the use of spare room on elective lists and evenings/weekends.
The resource use efficiency in animal production is unavoidably low, but in crop production, the utilization of recycled nutrients, i.e., animal and green manures, and the rejection of the use of spare mineral fertiliser can enhance efficiency.
The original Movinga vision was to build a marketplace for home removals that would use technology to make the process more efficient both for the consumer — through instant algorithmically-generated quotes — and for removal companies who, via the startup's tech, could aggregate jobs so as to make use of spare capacity, such as on a return journey from one city to another.
Often, distributed computing software makes use of "spare cycles", performing computations at times when a computer is idling.
