Sentences with phrase «as cheap»

It's more like living with this bugging feeling that some of the most sacred parts of our lives are being violated, taken away from us and rebranded as cheap products for mass consumption.

You can't expect the products will cost the same as the cheap products you are used to buying at the local drugstore.

However, as a cheap, readily available and non-toxic carbon source, in the past few years there have been efforts to turn carbon dioxide into valuable wares, or «value - added» products.

New ways to convert it to liquid form may soon make it just as cheap and convenient to use in vehicles

But full sequencing will soon be just as cheap as exome sequencing and will catch disease mutations in noncoding regions as well, Gibbs notes.

It saw it as a cheap way to ferry the SDI's Brilliant Pebbles — the space - based missile interceptors — into orbit.

They're given to cows, pigs, and chickens to make them grow more quickly or as a cheap alternative to keeping them healthy.

The terrible state of academic careers resulted not from sequestration but from the fundamental structure of a funding system that has long used graduate students and postdocs as cheap labor for grant - supported research, and as a consequence has produced too many Ph.D. researchers for the existing career opportunities.

«I don't think this should deter people from working in tropical countries, but we need to stop thinking of flights as a cheap commodity.»

Researchers, therefore, have been intent on finding ways to adapt graphene as a cheap, high - performance semiconducting material.

Azwell praises the advance as a cheap and easy alternative to current oil cleanup methods.

If it works at factory scale, 1366's process would go far toward making solar energy as cheap as coal power in this decade, he says.

The most promising use for «MinION sketching» may be as a cheap cell - authentication tool in experimental research, say scientists familiar with its capabilities.

While U.S. wine buyers traditionally have viewed wine in a box as cheap and unsavory, several American and European wineries are working to turn that view around by putting out award - winning vintages by the box.

• Priceless Zircon In a jewelry store, a zircon can pass as a cheap diamond.

Although raw produce can be sanitized in a bath of dilute bleach, a team of Georgia scientists is developing an alternative — acidic electrolyzed water — that appears to kill microbes even more effectively and could be just as cheap and easy.

Even the electric utility industry recognizes that where residential electricity costs reach 15 cents per kilowatt - hour — or roughly 16 percent of the U.S. retail electricity market — solar is already as cheap as grid electricity.

After all, a growing number of young people in their society were already flouting the traditional beliefs, illegally hunting endangered species such as the giant indri and eating their meat as a cheap bar snack.

So it is unlikely that manufacturers will see the polymer transistor as a cheap way to make complex devices such as microprocessors.

Although far from being ready for testing in west Africa, paper discs that detect the virus are being developed for potential use as a cheap, simple method to identify infected people.

Regardless of how cheap such small modular reactors may allow nuclear to be in future, it is unlikely to be as cheap as natural - gas - fired turbines in the present.

They work long hours for tiny stipends, serve as cheap labor for their advisers, and sometimes can't even tell you — within a standard deviation of years — when they anticipate graduating.

The researchers suggest that their blood test serves as a cheap and simple option to pre-select individuals from the general population for further testing by these more invasive and costly methods to exclude the falsely positive subjects.The blood test developed by Gerwert and colleagues uses a technology called immuno - infrared sensor to measure distribution of pathological and healthy structures of amyloid - beta.

Even if we fail to find the miracles that allow us to make and then transport hundreds of gigawatts of power over 3,000 miles at pennies per kilowatt - hour, and even if we can never find photovoltaics that are as cheap as dirt, the enterprise of trying to do it will push our science and our engineering so far forward that we'll generate a cornucopia of unexpected new technologies that will be the basis of vast new industries.

However, even though it is as cheap as culture - based techniques, it is not funded as a standard test for cases of diarrhea by the German health - care system, she notes.

The only way to do it cheaply is with photovoltaics or a photocatalytic agent that is as cheap as paint.

Taking part in Next Wave's postdoc production policy debate, Massimo Lazzari argued that the current system leaves postdocs overspecialised to compete in a wider job market and that too many postdocs are simply regarded as cheap labour

For example, tabletop fusion may find a use as a cheap, compact way to produce neutrons and to replace the bulky accelerators now used for neutron scanning in oil exploration and baggage screening.

One example is the use of natural gas, which has benefited the United States but is not as cheap or as abundant in China.

He was part of the team that introduced sugarcane - based charcoal as a cheap cooking fuel, and his solar disinfecting plastic bags purify water for drinking.

Joy: But at least in that situation, you know, when we're reaching, we're starting to come to an inflexion point where distributing renewable energy will be as cheap or cheaper than the grid; because solar and batteries and small - scale wind will start crossing over.

I felt I wasn't developing as a scientist, but was instead being used as cheap labor.

Consultants McKinsey forecast that solar energy will be as cheap as coal and nuclear by 2020.

Our job is to enable that,» says Ramamoorthy Ramesh, director of DoE's SunShot Initiative, a bid to make solar power as cheap as electricity from burning fossil fuels.

Although far from being ready for testing in West Africa, the discs are being developed for potential use as a cheap, simple method to identify infected people.

There's no such thing as cheap linen table cloths because, no matter what you pay for it, linen just always looks classy and polished.

It's fast, reliable, and super fun to use, making it a very popular choice as a cheap beginner drone.

As far as cheap Go Pro accessories go, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

Need your kit to be as cheap as possible?

As far as cheap massage tables go, the BestMassage Portable Table is going to be your best bet.

Optimists see the new resource as a cheap, clean «bridging fuel» to a low - carbon future.

It is not even in the same realm as cheap mermaid tails.

But the debate over the amendment lived on thanks to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who spent the week attacking the amendment as a cheap way to buy votes for the overall measure — and an expensive burden on New York State.

She claimed nuclear energy would not be as cheap as supporters claimed, and cited safety issues, in a debate with environmentalist Mark Lynas after they watched his Daily Politics film at Hinkley Point

«This section of America has been totally left behind as cheap money has washed down on the cities and suburbs,» Heaney said.

This is just as the party described as cheap blackmail the decision by the Kogi State government and the PDP Governors» Forum to blame political interference for the delay in releasing bailout funds for the state.

«In our opinion as a socio - political group loyal to the political cause of Atiku Abubakar, it will be a welcome development if indeed Atiku decides to contest for the president in 2019, but it will not be asking for too much if the Adewales of this world at least, let that decision come from Atiku Abubakar rather than foist it down as cheap campaign of calumny,» the statement read.

President John Dramani Mahama has described as cheap politics the opposition New Patriotic Party's (NPP) proposal to extend the service period for army recruits from 25 years to 30 years, thus pushing back their retirement.

Meanwhile we're wondering how much of his official duties have been conducted as a cheap political campaign stunt.

The ads are no where near as cheap as they used to be, but some of the blogs (the ones that get less traffic, of course) are still fairly reasonable.