Sentences with phrase «of conventional technologies»

We can not replace large (or significant) amounts of conventional technologies with wind and solar without either wrecking the economy or degrading system reliability or both.

In addition, there are still many opportunities for improvement of conventional technologies.

The workflow of conventional technologies for food testing is straightforward: the chemist tells the analytical lab instrument what compounds to look for, and the instrument works to find them.

Even with studies skewed by overly optimistic treatment of alternative energy and overly pessimistic treatment of conventional technology it's still generally hard to make the alternative technology appear competitive with natural gas generation.

Hopefully such examinations will not only include the externalities of conventional technology but also renewable resources.

Not exact matches

SunPower has argued that its premium - priced panels, which are among the most efficient in the industry at transforming sunlight into electricity, should receive an exemption from the tariffs because their unique technology can not be compared with that of more conventional models, including those made by the companies that sought the tariffs, Suniva and SolarWorld.

Representatives of a $ 2.2 billion investment fund aimed specifically at drone infrastructure — such as air traffic control technologies to allow drones to safely operate alongside conventional aircraft in U.S. airspace — weigh in during the discussion.

The investors want to eliminate the «valley of death» between the early promise of a new energy concept and commercializing it into a viable technology, which «neither government funding nor conventional private investment can bridge,» the group said in a statement.

Earlier this summer, Ford Motor Company showed off how it was testing 3D printing technology to improve its manufacturing and create new prototypes of car parts more quickly than with conventional methods.

He gives these companies a shot of capital with which to try to prove that their technology works in hopes that they will then be able to attract conventional VC funding — as Modern Meadow managed to do this past June.

Nicola's story is just one of hundreds, probably thousands of people who are seeing the freedoms technology can bring, and questioning the conventional way of doing things.

«People want to know where things are in relation to them when they're not at their desks,» says Michael Nova, founder and CEO of Kiyon, a La Jolla, California, company that has developed wireless network technology designed to overcome the spotty coverage of conventional wireless networks inside buildings.

But an overemphasis on conventional person - to - person customer engagement does not come close to areas of growing consumer interest: innovation, self - service and the use of contemporary technology.

But a staff analytical paper from the Bank of Canada is peeling back the layers of blockchain's proposed advantages and suggests most of its assets actually come from more - conventional technologies such as encryption and smart contracts.

Quantum computing could make use of the phenomenon to make computations faster than digital electronic technology, which is the basis of conventional computing.

This falls under the rubric of business process automation, something Gartner calls «the automation of complex business processes and functions beyond conventional data manipulation and record - keeping activities, usually through the use of advanced technologies.»

Rupak Biswas, deputy director of exploration technology at NASA Ames, likened the state of quantum computing to the early development of conventional computers during the 1930s and 40s.

At a more complex but profound level, robo - advisors and other fintech companies are providing much of the technology to help major financial institutions transform their conventional advice businesses.

The opportunity from Global Opportunity Report 2017, Business of Power, showcases how decentralised, peer - to - peer platforms and innovative energy storage technologies are disrupting the conventional concept of utility delivery and better preparing cities and residents for energy and climate resilience.

In contrast to other prominent banking institutions, some of which are interested in exploring other use cases for the blockchain, Carstens did not appear impressed by technologies related to digital assets: «In practice, central bank experiments show that DLT - based systems are very expensive to run, and slower and much less efficient to operate on conventional payment and settlement systems.»

The fields of academia and education are one of the most conservative fields — there are centuries - old traditions and conventional that has remained in use to the detriment of new technology.

As a side note, we in Australia have not tended to allow much role for «new economy» developments, such as the adoption of information technology, though some research does suggest that this may have played a greater role than conventional wisdom has allowed.

Apart from offering potential cost savings, the adoption of distributed ledger technology could start to threaten financial institutions by effectively removing the need for conventional, regulated payment systems.

Innovation & development: How cryptocurrencies can be viewed through conventional innovation frameworks, what this unique positioning tells us about their future as a technology, and what possibilities exist for cryptocurrencies in developing countries as crucibles of transparency, positive change and financial inclusion.

Despite the modestly slowing rate of cost declines for utility - scale alternative energy generation, the gap between the costs of certain alternative energy technologies (e.g., utility - scale solar and onshore wind) and conventional generation technologies continues to widen as the cost profiles of such conventional generation remain flat (e.g., coal) and, in certain instances, increase (e.g., nuclear).

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

This makes the recording, storing and transmission of information much easier, faster, and more reliable than is the case with more conventional analogue technologies.

This is the conventional view of the relationship of technology to human values.

Using a technology that helped render the protein molecule while helping cut away the oftentimes off putting dry taste of the ingredient, Ripple has raised more than $ 44 million in funding from Silicon Valley investors such as Google since launching in 2014, and has expanded from the natural channel into the conventional retailers like Target.

This means you are going to be wasting a lot of time cleaning up and changing over between jobs with conventional filling machine technology.

Next to the conventional sealing edge, the EasyLid ® tray has an additional ring that is hermetically sealed with the top film by means of SEALPAC's unique sealing technology.

On the conventional press side a major launch is the FoodSafeUV project, which demonstrates to brand owners how the use of new dose measurement technology at the web surface can lead to a certified workflow to guarantee migration well below current Swiss Ordinance levels.

Our pilot plants are unique facilities with a mix of conventional and emerging technologies supported by world class science.

From their analysis, which is not based on omic technologies but represents the most comprehensive compilation of GE crop composition data to date, the authors conclude that compositional differences between GE varieties and their conventional comparators are «encompassed within the natural variability of the conventional crop and that the composition of GM and conventional crops can not be disaggregated.»

Our juice pressing technology minimizes the contact with oxygen in comparison with conventional technologies, which helps to preserve the fresh natural taste and maximum amount of nutrients in our juice.

Advantageous for EPT compared to conventional spray drying technology are better functionality for the products, the flexibility of the platform, energy savings and finally better flavour retention.

Featuring PA's PowerdriveTM technology, the Revolution is a fully electric machine and operates without using any compressed air, therefore offering savings of up to 98 % of the running costs of conventional pneumatically operated tray sealers.

Campaigns in India have gained momentum against genetically engineered rice, including the Save our Rice network, the Folk Rice Movement and the Seed Mothers movement; all working to conserve and salvage thousands of traditional and indigenous seed varieties which would have otherwise been eroded by the onslaught of hybrid technology and conventional chemical inputs in the past decades.

Another benefit of the motion - control technology is the much higher stability of packs on transfer than with conventional packing.

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A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

Popli called that a marked improvement over the 60 percent success rate of conventional epilepsy surgery, which, he noted, has not been performed at the medical center since it adopted the Visualase technology.

They jumped on wireless headphone technology in the late 80s, producing an infrared cordless headphone with a more powerful transmitter than the conventional systems of the time.

«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.

There is now adequate empirical evidence available around the world: Wherever people have brought about more efficient use of energy and greater use of renewable energy, you generate many more jobs than if you were to continue with conventional technologies and fossil fuels.

Conventional audio technology can capture and spit back every note, whisper, and rustle that was recorded, but it does nothing to recreate the complex directional variability of the original sounds.

To meet the 2025 target, the company is pushing all its technologies at once, including the Earth Dreams powertrain technology that improves the fuel economy of conventional gasoline vehicles by 10 percent.

Dr Oliver Kuras, from the British Geological Survey, who led on the development of geo - electrical imaging technology, said: «It is traditionally difficult to reliably «see inside rock walls» using conventional electrical imaging methods, particularly when repeating surveys over time.

«However, making dozens of devices, as we have done in our paper, is different than making a billion, which is done with conventional transistor technology today.

The single molecule array (Simoa) technology developed by Quanterix, and the fully automated HD - 1 analyzer, offers unprecedented improvement in sensitivity proteins over current technologies for the detection of blood - based biomarkers — as much as 1000 times more sensitive than conventional immunoassays.