Because of higher costs and technical barriers to widespread clean energy adoption, efforts to move the U.S. energy system away from fossil fuels towards clean energy alternatives inevitably comes with a significant price tag.
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Where such toys and tools impel a new demographic toward technology, these platforms are truly bringing down the costs of technical literacy, and insofar as this has positive impact, they are accretive to society.
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The technical challenges, high capital costs and steep regulatory hurdles make it very hard to build and certify a new airplane.
Each technology discussion includes technical and market status, costs of energy production, cost trends, policy environment, future projections, and analysis of prospects and hurdles to expansion.
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Despite the early financial support from wealthy investors and the backing of well-known space-exploration researchers, Planetary Resources faces many technical questions and uncertainties about costs and the technology required to extract materials from asteroids.
While technical improvements have been cutting the costs of renewable energy, governments everywhere have been eager to give it a helping hand.
Take instead one little boring technical detail about how we work out the costs and benefits of such schemes.
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The minister said this total included costs on legal, commercial, financial and technical consultancy and other professional fees, which were incurred from when the scheme was first launched in 2005 until 2009.
Technical issues relating to measures, thresholds, limits and costs of excess will be discussed, in both their material and intellectual dimensions, as well as the importance of interdisciplinarity to better understand and decide.
The latest assessment of the extra costs follows a review of the project by the EC's technical partner, the European Space Agency.
It is bad enough that the Clinton Administration is allowing political considerations to enter into, let alone to drive, decisions concerning the further U.S. involvement in the Mir program that should be made exclusively on the basis of realistic net assessments of the considerable safety and financial costs weighed against what are, at best, limited prospective scientific and technical benefits.
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The greater costs that will be incurred by drillers when that happens, because of tighter regulatory and technical standards, will flow in part to Louisiana workers and contractors.
New standards emerged such as CDMA that had some technical superiorities, but because of their lower sales volume and domination by a single supplier they had high costs.
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