Sentences with phrase «cheapest kind of technology»

Not exact matches

And it maybe goes both ways, but I know that in radio astronomy, for example, they have taken advantage of a lot of the — and presumably in other kinds of astronomy as well, they've taken advantage of the, you know, how cheap storage is now and processing power to do really hugely data - intensive observations with off - the - shelf technologies, and they've used graphics processors to, you know, do things they could only do before with custom fabricated chips, which were obviously extremely expensive.

Having said that, i believe that China for example is really experiencing the kind of pollution that US did in the 50 and 60's, and that they are better equipped to move more forcibly and quicker than the US did, one reason is that no rational being would deploy techninology that is outdated,,, they would leapfrog to the newwer technology when building infrastructure... One might be able to argue that it is cheaper and more beneficial for developed to support that... That and the belief i have that they may not, as you point, want to experihence the consumption addiction that US incurred... (Note; the Europeans are substantially less than the US per capita emissions, a benefit of greater foresight — evidence that this is not a «western» problem

So what kind of electric generation technology could end up cheaper than coal - fired generation is today?

Depending on what kind of technology you're using, solar could either be cheaper than coal, gas, and nuclear... or it could be one of the most expensive energy sources out there.