Sentences with phrase «cost by orders of magnitude»

Charts lie this are good for showing the reality of how slowly developments take place and the unlikelihood of a sudden massive breakthrough that suddenly reduces the cost by orders of magnitude (because that is what would be required, and even if energy storage was free, renewables like wind and solar would still not be viable at current prices (or probably ever, IMO) to provide a major proportion of electricity generation.

Of course with enough time, money and effort most DNA sequences can eventually be built; de novo designed mammalian genome - scale synthesis however will require a drop in cost by orders of magnitude together with technology improvements to enable DNA synthesis without restrictions on sequence composition.

Not exact matches

By breaking down solar panel ownership to a single cell we reduce the cost of going solar by two orders of magnitude and we're utilizing empty roof space in some of the sunniest cities on the planet, such as Dubai and Johannesburg.&raquBy breaking down solar panel ownership to a single cell we reduce the cost of going solar by two orders of magnitude and we're utilizing empty roof space in some of the sunniest cities on the planet, such as Dubai and Johannesburg.&raquby two orders of magnitude and we're utilizing empty roof space in some of the sunniest cities on the planet, such as Dubai and Johannesburg.»

«The demand for data is growing at an exponential rate, while the cost of access to space (and, by extension, data) is falling by orders of magnitude,» says Jonas.

It would, however, have increased the cost of manufacturing firearms for legal sale in New York by orders of magnitude.

Researchers at the Center for Bright Beams, an NSF Science and Technology Center led by Cornell University, are working to decrease the costs associated with accelerator technology while simultaneously increasing the intensity of charged particle beams by two orders of magnitude.

Well, 10 years later the costs are down by an order of magnitude and it has a place.

Sure, we might be able to trim around the edges or gain some efficiencies in a variety of places, but in terms of resetting dramatically the cost of higher education in a way that would be fundamentally affordable to all Americans, trying to lower the costs of traditional institutions with existing faculty by an order of magnitude is quite simply a pipe dream.

The BSL calculator, which claimed the ban cost taxpayers $ 3 million, is an exaggeration by almost two orders of magnitude.

Are you going to man up and admit your error, as you demanded of Victor, or are you not just wrong by over an order of magnitude in capacity and maybe, I du n no, two or three orders of magnitude in cost, but also a hypocrite?

to which I responded by explaining the relevance to the electricity industry — i.e. a factor of many orders of magnitude difference in power, mass, capital and operating costs, rate of turnover, rate of development, financial risk, [implied] consequence of failure.

But the question remains whether or not it will in practice be less costly than some of the other less exotic specific actionable proposals made to date (i.e. at a cost of less than around $ 16 trillion for 0.5 degC warming theoretically averted by year 2100) or more costly by at least one order of magnitude.

While the science of anthropogenic ozone depletion has some uncertainties, the costs of abatement are radically lower, by order of magnitude, than for CO2 - caused warming.

''... current indirect CO2 benefits clearly outweigh any hypothesized cost by literally orders of magnitude; the benefit - cost ratios range up to more than 200 - to - 1.»

Compared to using the value in point one of 0.08 W / m2K, the amount of additional investment to compensate for this simply in order to demonstrate compliance with Part L in a Deap calculation has increased by an order of magnitude — more unnecessary waste which is completely out of tune with the fabric - first sustainable building approach as well as cost - optimal considerations.

Plugging a volcano does not sound easy or particularly safe, but the larger problem is that CO2 emissions from volcanoes are two orders of magnitude smaller the anthropogenic CO2 emissions, so the relevant comparison is the cost of plugging all the volcanoes in the world vs cutting human emissions by 1 %.

• The cost of a general distribution system for methane is orders of magnitude smaller than for major electrical grids, so areas still developing their energy systems can invest in local grids powered by small, re-deployable gas generators using a much cheaper distribution system that can also provide direct gas for heating, cooking, and other such purposes.

Energy analyst Roger Bezdek estimates that the benefits of using carbon - based fuels outweigh any hypothesized «social costs of carbon» by orders of magnitude: 50 - to - 1 (using the inflated SCC of $ 36 / ton of CO2 concocted by EPA and other federal agencies in 2013)-- and 500 - to - 1 (using the equally arbitrary $ 22 / ton estimate that they cooked up in 2010).

I found this statement of yours particularly interesting: «Katrina going 30 miles in one direction can change the cost of storm damage in 2005 by an order of magnitude without changing the intensity of the storm at all.»

If the plan is to use «renewables» to power the manufacture the vast numbers of «renewables» hardware, they had better up up expected cost by a couple of orders of magnitude.

And while the President lectures us about our sins against the planet, his EPA and other agencies embark on the project to impose penance on us by forcing the closure of coal and other fossil fuel power plants, blocking pipelines, bankrupting the coal mining industry, subsidizing intermittent power sources that can't possibly run a fully operational electrical grid at reasonable cost, and multiplying our cost of electricity by an order of magnitude or so.

By breaking down solar panel ownership to a single cell we reduce the cost of going solar by two orders of magnitude and we're utilizing empty roof space in some of the sunniest cities on the planet, such as Dubai and Johannesburg.&raquBy breaking down solar panel ownership to a single cell we reduce the cost of going solar by two orders of magnitude and we're utilizing empty roof space in some of the sunniest cities on the planet, such as Dubai and Johannesburg.&raquby two orders of magnitude and we're utilizing empty roof space in some of the sunniest cities on the planet, such as Dubai and Johannesburg.»

And we must have a focus on systemic risks, implementing solutions that reduce the risk by orders of magnitude more than they cost.

«The entailed costs are higher by orders of magnitude than those in bitcoin and can seriously tax a bitcoin network operating at normal scale,» the paper's authors write.