Sentences with phrase «pipe dream to»

Visiting the iconic Playboy Mansion is a pipe dream to many, let alone having a chance to own it.

Mitchell put it all together, and by the time he sold his company to Devon Energy in 2002, the idea of extracting natural gas from shale was about to turn from technological pipe dream to very real economic powerhouse.»

But some energy experts say it's a pipe dream to think this can ever happen affordably capturing carbon dioxide and storing itat the billion - ton - a-year scale that would be needed for it to be meaningful in the climate equation.]

Asking for full retail price may be a bit much for a rerelease, but with Nintendo exclusives it was a pipe dream to think otherwise.

Guess it was a pipe dream to have a up to date consolidated list.

Everybody saw it coming, but it's gone from being a pipe dream to now becoming a reality for the state of Nevada.

This may sound like a pipe dream to many, especially if you've had your email account for many years and your inbox message count is hovering somewhere around 1700, as mine was when I finally bit the bullet and tackled Inbox Zero.

This may sound like a pipe dream to many, especially if you've had your email account -LSB-...]

It was, in our minds, a pipe dream to actually think some of these games would be hitting Xbox Live Arcade.

It isn't, of course, and the Hubble's development from pipe dream to reality was an especially long and bumpy ride.

A slew of recent successes means that what seemed a pipe dream to many is looking much less so, especially to Endy and a growing band of believers.

Along the way, the hope is that the project will transform the technology of neuroscience — in the same way that the Human Genome Project (HGP) helped take genome - sequencing from pipe dream to everyday reality — and ultimately revolutionise our understanding of brain function.

Enabled by REDC funding, the Central New York Biotech Accelerator at Loguen's Crossing has gone from a pipe dream to a reality — and it is now helping biotech and biomedical companies from the region and around the globe bring emerging technologies into the marketplace.

«We are proud of the fact that we took permanent affordability from a pipe dream to something that people saw as realistic and implementable.»

We all knew he wanted to go and it was a pipe dream to think he could stay and follow up with a new contract.

Here's the process of making all - day McDonald's breakfast go from a pipe dream to a national reality.

LinkedIn's vision — which includes creating a digital profile for every company and worker in the world and lifting the global economy — may come off as an idealistic pipe dream to many.

Over its lifetime, the platform has helped fund roughly 100,000 creative projects that otherwise would have remained pipe dreams to their founders.

Not exact matches

But unless you can convince investors that you're capable of delivering the goods, persuading the world to buy your fancy throne and managing phenomenal growth, they'll write it off as just another pipe dream.

While this may sound like a pipe dream, the idea became a reality thanks to $ 50 million in venture backing — in particular, the $ 40 million invested by Taiwanese entrepreneur and billionaire Samuel Yin in a Series A round in 2011, which trimmed years off production and helped the company quickly ramp up to more than 450 employees.

But until he comes up with a concrete plan to address the issues above his pipe dream may simply go up in smoke.

«The popular narrative around using Bitcoin to buy coffee or pizza is a pipe dream at this point.»

To Manjoo, the first cracks are already appearing in the pipe dreams that are barely holding these stories together.

Thanks to technology and today's «always - on» culture, the 40 - hour workweek has unfortunately become somewhat of a pipe dream in the business world at this point (RIP).

Of course, Google will never be able to stop some small town kid with a sluggish internet connection from trying to load all seventeen of his favorite music videos all at once, so eliminating buffering is a pipe dream.

It may be tempting to think of the paperless office as a failed pipe dream left over from the «90s.

That might sound like a pipe dream, but thanks to Google Ventures, something along those lines is actually a reality.

«What that imposes on us is the need to ensure the design of the power plant we put together is consistent with the utilities» view of the power grid, consistent with what's available on the vendor market and (the need to) build them on a scale to change the nature of energy supply, and that it isn't just a physicists pipe dream.»

A: The pipe dreams of eight million barrels of oil a day from the oil sands are almost certainly never going to be achieved.

$ 2,000.00 was a pipe dream, but, it now seems to be more of a case of when, rather than if.

Your dream house could turn out to be infested with termites, or filled with ancient pipes that need to be replaced.

I was going to write in detail about why a gold - backed Yuan is a pipe dream, but then I discovered Geoffrey Pike's article on the same topic and realised that doing so would be akin to reinventing the wheel.

The pipe dream of some in the Bitcoin community is to govern the system by having ordinary users vote for changes by adopting the corresponding full node software.

That means it's important to not shrug off talk of higher rates as just a pipe dream, and then get caught holding the bag if and when they transpire.

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

They want you Christians to stop making other people act a certain way because of your unsubstantiated pipe dreams.

Maybe a pipe dream... but if these new generations can be exposed to reality, they may well reject the old culture and superst «itions.

CJ Casciotta writes for RELEVANT about how our entrepreneurial generation is creatively using community to provide for their pipe dreams.

If God is more than a winter pipe dream, an opium for coping on our way to annihilation...!

The idea that this group of workers is somehow going to be retrained for tech jobs is mostly a pipe dream.

Along the way, the building received a complete technical upgrade to equip it for the Internet of Things, giving SugarCreek capabilities that were pipe dreams only a few years ago.

Technological sobriety proved to be a pipe dream, but my grilling bender was a raging success.

I would love to take Giroud out of the equation last season, remove his goals last season to show ignorant people what league position we would have finished in, a league position which makes all those fantasy players a pipe dream because they only move to teams in the Champions League.

I think him coming to Arsenal is more than just a pipe dream, but still very unlikely.

But don't be surprised if American owners aren't willing to follow an over-priced pipe - dream in a large majority of British footballers.

They should know that having current superstar such as Dybala, Mbappe playing 4 us would just be a pipe dream as long as Kronke and his board remained in charged.The tightly control budget would not allow that to happened..

I guess some have a pipe dream of the exact same player coming out in a future draft who also happens to be 6» 6, 220 lbs, with a 7» 2 wingspan and elite defense.

Sadly, I think Porter to the Nuggets is a pipe dream.

But again, your phrasing, this is your «perfect, non-pipe-dream rebuild» which says to me that it's as perfect as it can get without being pipe - dream territory.

I mean, feel free to have your pipe dream.