«This can be the biggest opportunity or the biggest disaster for India... they can either choose
the wrong technology and throw the country into the 19th century or bring the country into the 22nd century,» Gresta exclaimed.
When you start asking question about cost benefit analysis, you start to uncover whether people are overselling, promoting
the wrong technologies or the wrong methods.
Perhaps we haven't heard from alien civilizations because we're listening in the wrong place or with
the wrong technology, he said.
But although such good intentions are widely welcomed, Nicholas Kurti, a specialist in energy at the university's engineering department, is convinced that the buses use
the wrong technology.
Choose
the wrong technology and you'll be lumped on - going headaches.
These risks may lead to underinvestment — too little, too late, in the wrong location and with
the wrong technology.
Along the way, the alternative energy industry has to avoid getting sidetracked into
the wrong technologies, as this will delay the eagerly awaited carbon - free future.
Meanwhile, Japan is betting on
the wrong technologies and missing a major opportunity at home.
Sometimes policymakers have backed
the wrong technologies, lacked ambition or simply not engaged with potential emissions reductions.
Automating a bad process with technology is a poor business decision because you are not only missing an opportunity for improvement but you might be choosing
the wrong technology solution.
However
the wrong technology not only provides less of a boost but can actually become a burden.
Avoid the costly mistake of choosing
the wrong technology by learning from both providers and practitioners.
Attempting to shoehorn a solution into
the wrong technology is a recipe for failure.
«They have fundamantally put a bet on
the wrong technology,» he told TechNewsWorld.
Motorola was the first company to make the attempt 25 years ago with its Iridium project, he told the E-Commerce Times, but because it selected
the wrong technology and didn't foresee the competition from cellphones, it failed.