There are
no insurmountable technical or economic obstacles to this transition.
Reliably integrating these resources may increase the complexity of the challenge, but does not pose
insurmountable technical problems or significant costs.
While some proposals, like launching a cloud of mirrors into space to deflect some of the sun's heat, sound like science fiction, the more serious schemes require
no insurmountable technical feats.
There are
no insurmountable technical barriers to online primaries, Levine notes.
Alexander writes of a presenter who not only acknowledged
an insurmountable technical delay, but turned it into a teachable moment by incorporating the error into the presentation itself.
Not exact matches
The expense and
technical difficulties of aiming X-ray lasers at targets thousands of miles away in outer space had seemed
insurmountable, but Dirk Bouwmeester, a former post doc under Penrose who is now a professor of physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara, saw a way to make it feasible.
«We have researched about 20
technical challenges, and we believe that none of those is
insurmountable,» he says.
But deployment of these technologies is by no means certain, in part because the
technical hurdles associated with their relatively safe and effective use may be
insurmountable, and in part because the risks attached to their development and deployment may render them socially and politically unpalatable.