Moreover, during this period, he expected carbon capture and storage technology to become cost-effective, thus helping to reduce or eliminate emissions from gas power stations.

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Spending on moving and storage was down 5.4% during the same period, while spending on veterinary services dropped 3.9%.

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The performance gains that flash memory provide will cause solid growth in the enterprise storage market, Burke predicted that unit growth will be 42% from 2011 to 2012 with capacity growth of 90% but over the same time period enterprise HDDs will grow 25% in units and 83% in storage capacity.

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"The systems we used for photo storage a few years ago did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a reasonable period of time even though they were immediately removed from the site, " Facebook spokesperson Frederic Wolens told Ars via e-mail.

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