In energy in general, technologies mature and succeed each other over decades.
But technologies mature rapidly, and new technologies replace them.
In comparison, the ownership and purchasing intent rates for more mature technologies are falling.
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DisplayMate also point out that competitor LCD screens like the iPhone are mature technologies.
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Better technology makes a nuclear capability even easier to develop, and mature technologies are ever more widely spread.
By contrast, coal- and natural gas-fired generation systems are fairly mature technologies.
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Subsidies are more generous in countries such as Portugal, which is keen on building a marine-power sector of its own and offers extra cash to less mature technologies.
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What is striking, however, is that, even in the absence of mature technologies or standards, an enormous amount of innovation, experimentation and reinvention is going on exactly the opposite of what you would expect to be happening if the internet was really just a placeless cloud.
The normal practice in weapons purchases is to transition to fixed pricing only after technologies and designs are sufficiently mature so that cost estimators can anticipate possible deviations from the plan.
The Prius, LED lighting, and mature solar and wind technologies all have the same thing in common.
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Renee Klosterman, acting multimedia services manager at Washington's DIS, said her state's commitment to video technology is proven by a special Interactive Technologies Division within DIS, a mature videoconferencing system and a satellite TV studio that has all the cameras, production equipment and personnel needed to produce broadcast-quality video.
The question is whether this will create a mature and viable set of technologies, and how soon.
James Pearce: There are two significant technologies that I think we will see mature in the coming years.
Mr. MINTZER: These battery technologies, however, are little less mature.
There are a couple of technologies that we are waiting to sort of mature that could make a big bump suddenly in the evolution, that we are looking at very closely.
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