In general, adjustments to demand can occur in various ways : through responses to price signals, such as permanent differential rates for evening and day times or occasional highly priced usage days, behavioral changes achieved through home area networks, automated controls such as with remotely controlled air-conditioners, or with permanent load adjustments with energy efficient appliances.
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It will depend on the rate of cooling, and it will also depend on the differential rate of efficiency of the furnace to re-heat the room . ( I suspect that turning on the furnace entails " overhead "-so heating from 70 to 71 degrees may actually take negligibly less energy than heating from 65 to 71 ).
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Monod states that the decisive factor in natural selection is not the " struggle for life " but is the differential rate of reproduction and the only mutations " acceptable " to an organism are those that " do not lessen the coherence of the teleonomic apparatus, but rather, further strengthen it in its already assumed orientation " ( Monod, 119 ).
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On 16 December 1908, less than a week after the committee made its announcement, the six towns informed the committee that an agreement had been reached and that a differential rating system for the next 20 years had been settled on . } } No valuation of assets would be undertaken and that each town was responsible for discharging any outstanding loans as of 31 December 1907.
