He did not say who would pay for a technology which increases the cost of power generation so much that it has still not been adopted in rich nations which have caused the climate problem.

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Projects like power generation, on the other hand, may cost hundreds of millions of dollars, since Google.org will endeavor to prove engineering concepts by building out power plants.

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And developing basic low-cost pollution technology for coal-fired power generation in the third world would probably get more bang for the pollution buck than just about anything else.

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The fall in the number of LNG shipments was blamed on steep increases in the cost of imported gas making coal cheaper for power generation.

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As Broadcom's sixth generation combo chip, the BCM43341 offers OEMs unmatched size, power and cost advantages.

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High oil prices have also increased the cost of energy imports, which Japan relies on for power generation.

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Unfortunately these arguments rarely acknowledge the need to contextualize the cost of administering these subsidies in the current regime of centralized government-dominated power generation and transmission.

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