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They cost less than a dollar. Yet three years on since their experiment why haven governments, companies or organisations embraced potato batteries?
Just like Silicon valley start-ups, Karp was willing to take on tens of millions of dollars in venture capital to execute his vision.
which made hundreds of millions of dollars when they sold.##These deals represent a huge success. They bring attention to New york tech,
The army gave us a few million dollars at the age of 18 and asked us to build technology
the idea is that a 450-kg (990-pound) bomb scatters thousands of rods from mid air over an area of 60 metres,
which costs as little as half a US dollar can cause financial difficulties for someone making just $2-$3 a day.
But the breaking story of the morning is Hurricane Isaac as it pounds the city of New orleans. Jeff Flock is on the scene there.
plans to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in each venture. Unlike Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied parts of the West bank
Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg A counterfeit 100 U s. dollar bank note is placed on a Matsumura Engineering Co. Ltd...
However, serious money can be raised to put solar on a place as Mosaic matches supporters with dollars.
whose solar installations may need a few thousand dollars to be financeable by conventional means. For every 50 people that click upporton a Place page, Mosaic will donate $100 to put solar on it.
IBM) today announced it is collaborating with Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) on a three-year multi-million dollar project to equip British columbia with a monitoring
The trio were hoping to raise 30 000 US dollars over the course of a month via the popular American crowdfunding website just enough to start production of their eco-friendly device.
Weighing less than five pounds and with a cord that's 20 feet long this device offers a range of features including a LED charging indicator waterproofing for outdoor charging all-environment operation and built-in thermal sensors for protection
Each of these tools will efficiently inject limited public dollars into transactions in a way that leverages far greater private investment than would have been accomplished otherwise,
while significantly increasing the effective use of limited public dollars. Aggregation State green banks should focus on mechanisms that allow the aggregation of decentralized investments across energy and real estate markets.
Credit enhancement A key principle of green banks is that they use public dollars strategically to reduce perceived risks for private investors in undertaking investments in clean energy projects.
Establishing a green bank allows states to put dollars to work that would otherwise provide onetime consumer benefits
We are pleased that Proterra could share in your city vision to promote a sustainable cost effective transit solution protecting the environment for generations to come. he five oldest trolley buses combined now emit a total of about 1135 pounds of carbon monoxide in a year compared to zero emissions from the all-electric buses.
TARC will also save thousands of dollars each year in lower operating costs. In fuel costs alone each electric bus will save TARC an estimated $10000 per year.
Euro-Mediterranean research and training collaboration will be enhanced, and INCAM's findings will assist the European commission in developing future policies r
Preliminary calculations indicate water costs of around two to five euros per cubic metre for intra-Mediterranean voyages,
and between five and ten euros per cubic metre for oceanic voyages. The dimensions of the oceanic modules have yet to be defined.
This could amount to millions of euros in savings if the technology is taken up by enough recyclers.
Insurance claims for subsidence in France and Germany run into hundreds of millions of euros annually and they are rising.
and laser and fluid polishing. he software Delcam developed under COMET is already generating up to a million euros in additional sales,
#Euro-Indo collaboration develops new photodetector Photodetectors that analyse scattered light in the ultraviolet (UV) range of the spectrum are used often in situations where the rapid detection of hazardous biological
and weighing 61 pounds, Pepper is designed to read emotions as well as recognize tones of voice and facial expressions in order to interact with humans.
#Researchers create guilt-free superfood that tastes like bacon As will be familiar to anyone miserably chewing through leaf after leaf of kale in a beleaguered attempt to shed a few pounds,
Bitcoin Named Worst-Performing Currency of 2014 In a statement to Entrepreneur late Monday, Bitstamp said that less than 19,000 BTC,
only days ago dubbed the world worst-performing currency of 2014. Today its price fell below $270,
After a year the low-carb group lost an average of 7. 7 pounds more than the low-fat group.
Not to mention the dollars saved by the health system in general.####In the first phase of the study two percent of urinary catheters were removed after an initial##off-the-shelf##electronic alert was triggered (the stock alert was part of the standard software package for the electronic health record.
and weighed 1500 grams (3 pounds 5 ounces) or less. The investigators found that differing ratios of three major classes of bacteria colonized the preemies guts in sequence.
labels can be printed in large rolls at a cost of roughly one dollar per square inch.
could eventually save hydrogen producers billions of dollars in electricity costs according to Gong. His next goal is to improve the durability of the device. he electrodes are fairly stable
But once the template is made labels can be printed in large rolls at a cost of roughly one dollar per square inch.
much as the ability to grow silicon in perfect crystalline arrangements made possible the multibillion-dollar semiconductor industry. irkin s
NA sequences strongly suggest that a distinct and unnamed species of giant clam has been hiding literally in plain sight looking almost the same as the relatively common Tridacna maximasays Keyse. iant clams can grow up to 230 kilograms (507 pounds)
which tend to scatter linearly. iven that the diode target measures 6 cm in length weighs 2. 8 g costs less than one Euro
Hovannes Kulhandjian and Zahed Hossain both doctoral candidates in his lab dropped two 40-pound sensors into the water.
But current sensors are large may cost thousands of dollars and often must be read manually.
#Gene keeps wheat from sprouting on the stalk A new way to keep high humidity from damaging wheat crops could save farmers millions of dollars
but in either case it is very costly-at about 2, 000 euro (US$2, 626) a gram,
Food poisoning due to outbreaks is a major problem putting thousands of lives at risk wasting tons of recalled foodstuffs with US$70 billion dollars lost in the US alone each year.
Local and state seizures without federal participation amounted to 57 percent of the dollar value of the seized items under Equitable Sharing since 2008$3 billion out of $5. 3 billon.
and comes with a multi-billion dollar societal cost. Current treatments are problematic because they cause intolerable side effects,
Inside the two-pound mechanical organ is an intricate system of sensors and microprocessors that monitors the body s internal changes and alters the flow of blood as needed.
The Carmat artificial heart is expected to cost about 140,000 to 180,000 Euros (or $191, 000 to $246, 000.
when creating a web site for ecommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Now you can create a web site for almost nothing
##But##on-orbit fabrication with Spiderfab,##a TUI presentation#promises,##will enable NASA to accomplish ten times more science per dollar.##
APS and its supporters spent hundreds of thousands of dollar on an advertising campaign but yesterday the ACC rejected the utility s request,
so they don t have to leave 200-pound Hugo behind. Meeker admits the idea is a stretch,
The number of competitors for Iot investable dollars just grew exponentially, and as such, getting ahead of the pack just became ever more important.
It s also worth noting that these professions generate about $3. 5 billion dollars in annual income,
Digital currencies like bitcoin have the potential to drive down transaction fees in a big way. Say, for example, you sell electronics
but with a distributed, decentralized digital currency, international borders and monetary systems decrease in importance and relevance.
and a digital currency of record could become the micropayment system for the web, allowing publications, for example,
Of course, while the prospect of a digital currency becoming a sort of free rails for moving money is exciting,
But the world of digital currency remains an exciting area of opportunity. Other areas that are prime for disruption by startups include underwriting
Imagine what could happen with millions of dollars of R&d refinement, and much better printers and software.
costing literally trillions of dollars and employing hundreds of millions of people. Brought on by development of auto-drive vehicles,
#The Phinergy aluminum-air battery at 100 kilograms (220 pounds) weight contained enough on board energy to allow the vehicle to travel up to 3, 000 kilometers (over 1, 860 miles.
Weighing about 15 pounds, Mr. He ulti-functional suitcaseis powered by a lithium battery and can reportedly go as fast as 12 miles per hour.
Customers send more than a million pounds euros from Manchester to Spain or pounds from Stockholm to the UK through Transferwise every day.
Gamified mobile apps, all manner of e-books and classroom analytics tools are just a few of the business models attracting venture capital dollars in the $5. 4 billion K-12
A new education gold rush Judging by venture capital dollars and press write-ups, it might seem like higher education is ground zero for startup activity in the multibillion-dollar education technology industry.
and tens of millions of dollars intheir bid to translate increasingly expensive college courses into cheaper online formats.
ost UAVS unmanned aerial vehicles are a few million dollars, says Wade Knudson, who heads the Zumwalt project forraytheon (RTN),
How the digital currency is changing everything Bitcoin Today, the single most prominent, and telling, feature of bitcoin is its massive controversy in the media.
Bitcoin the currency As a currency, bitcoin is in many ways the antithesis of modern fiat currencies.
who could never have guessed a currency could spontaneously form and organically grow within the modern free market.
Bitcoin is not the only example of a homogenousgood being adopted by a population as a currency,
History thus clearly shows that the idea of a currency deriving value primarily from thebacking of some central state is nonsense.
and both originated not as centrally issued currency that, as a result, magically had value,
However Bitcoin is not just a currency that promises to eventually end the trend of patchwork national currencies that exist for the almost sole purpose of allowing governments to endlessly fund their own deficit spending.
the interactions of their two algorithms resulted in prices in the millions of dollars. Competing robot armies could destroy cities as their algorithms exponentially escalated,
and death over human beings. nce youe put in billions of dollars of investment, youe got to use these things,
#Bitcoin is not only digital currency, it s Napster for finance Bitcoin will start its transformation from a mere currency into an entire open-source.
Bitcoin s valuation didn t just skyrocket in 2013, but its infrastructure, services, and adoption exploded as well,
and NBA team the Sacramento kings would accept the digital currency as payment.####Some still doubt#bitcoin s usefulness and durability,
but 2014 may leave skeptics even further behind developers and entrepreneurs are already hard at work building features on top of the Bitcoin protocol that will allow for the decentralized execution of financial services, from currency hedging to loans to stock
and record-keeping that has kept the bitcoin currency secure as its value ballooned well past $10 billion.
The Bitcoin protocol (crucially distinct from bitcoin, the currency it underlies) was built from the ground up to support far more complex transactions and relationships than simple value transfers.
The most immediate function Middleton envisions for his system is for hedging bitcoin against existing national currencies.
Given persistent skepticism, there should be plenty of takers to short bitcoin against the dollar.
Such hedging functions have particularly unique promise because of the extremely low transaction costs of peer-to-peer currency.
excitement over value fluctuations in the bitcoin currency is missing the point: It s not a threat as people sit there
it is still difficult to exchange bitcoin for national currencies in a quick, reliable manner.
It s unclear how Middleton s automated dollar-bitcoin hedging will work without a lightning-quick and reliable dollar-bitcoin exchange platform.
Plastic-bodied ELFS weigh only 150 pounds achieve 1800 mpg (the company says) and can reach 20 mph with 15 miles of electric range
It 31 inches tall weighs less than 200 pounds and can be wall-mounted. Businesses and municipalities that partner with BMW will be able to buy the charger
BMW's fast charger weighs less than 200 pounds and can be mounted on the wall. Photo:
compared with multimillion-dollar missiles, Navy officials said.""At less than a dollar per shot, there's no question about the value Laws provides,
"Klunder said.""With affordability a serious concern for our defense budgets, this will more effectively manage resources to ensure our sailors
The Launcherone rocket while still in the design and testing phase hopes to eventually deliver payloads from 250 pounds to 500 pounds into space for less than $10 million per flight.
everybody has a home theater that would have cost tens of thousands of dollars just a few years ago.
If there are data to back up these decisions it's based on an engineer traffic counts or an estimator dollar estimates.
You can put a dollar value on happiness and people have been doing it for years.
Nature News The global drive to eliminate the last pockets of polio infection is to receive a boost of more than half-a billion dollars from international donors.
which Rotary matched dollar for dollar. The new money will go to vaccination programmes, better disease surveillance and research on new vaccines.
says Alistair Steel, executive director of the Brussels-based industry group Euro Chlor. Traditionally, chlorine production has used a mercury electrode in the electrolysis of sodium chloride,
Yin contributed 3 billion Taiwanese dollars, the equivalent of roughly US$100 million, to set up the Tang Prize Foundation.
Each prize will consist of 40 million Taiwanese dollars (US$1. 34 million) as well as a 10-million-Taiwanese-dollar research grant.
but winners of the Tang Prize#either individuals or institutions#will not only get the 40-million-Taiwanese-dollar prize money,
but also receive 10 million Taiwanese dollars for their areas of research. The Tang Dynasty was renowned for its sophisticated cultural and scientific achievements.
#South korea makes billion-dollar bet on fusion power South korea has embarked on the development of a preliminary concept design for a fusion power demonstration reactor in collaboration with the US Department of energy's Princeton Plasma physics Laboratory (PPPL) in New jersey.
"Even on the low end, they still cost in the hundreds of dollars per gram,
In particular, millions of dollars have been poured into drugs that inhibit a protein called PCSK9, an enzyme involved in cholesterol synthesis. This approach lowers LDL
which included billions of dollars for science, and also charged the OSTP with improving public access to research (see Into the open).
Anyone caught participating in such unlawful activity as free speech will be fined up to about $600 (30,000 rubles)
#'Edible Barcodes'Help Fight Counterfeit Drugs Who knew that the answer to fighting the trillion-dollar global counterfeit drug problem rested in a particle the size of a speck of dust?
But whereas a power plant is huge and costs hundreds of millions of dollars to build,
For instance commodity traders might pay top dollar for detailed information on the level of oil in Saudi arabia's storage facilities.
#Multibillion-dollar race to put internet into orbit The next-generation internet could come from above, with fleets of satellites delivering broadband to under-served areas of the world THE race is on to build a new kind of internet.
A host of companies and billions of dollars are in play, with the ultimate goal of ringing the planet with satellites that will allow anyone, anywhere,
but are made for a few hundred dollars less and operate with greater efficiency, Coe-Sullivan says.
Over a four-day period he says ride sharing saved $18000 in fares and operational costs and more than 1000 pounds in carbon emissions.
This system can be built at a very low cost relative to the million-dollar MRI machines used in a hospital Peng says.
which can cost hundreds of millions of dollars Currently the startup has raised $6 million in funding
which requires introducing mutations into embryonic stem cells can take more than a year and costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.
can lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in avoidable annual costs. That why KGS aims to ake buildings betterwith cloud-based software, called Clockworks, that collects existing data on a building equipment specifically in HVAC (heating, ventilation,
At that rate, a winery would shave about 2 pounds of CO2 per case off of its carbon footprint
and food can pose safety risks and cost governments and private companies hundreds of billions of dollars annually.
smartphone-readable particle that they believe could be deployed to help authenticate currency, electronic parts, and luxury goods, among other products.
or printed onto currency, the researchers say. They could also be incorporated into ink that artists could use to authenticate their artwork.
#One currency one price? Economics has a aw of one price, which states that identical goods should, in theory,
along with a colleague from the University of Chicago, presents evidence of a strong convergence of prices within the Eurozone, the region of European countries sharing a common currency.
whose currencies are pegged to the Euro. hat is surprising about our paper is that we found the law of one price,
nd we found it to be very strongly dependent on the currency in which the prices are quoted.
Indeed, the unity of the currency seems to be a more powerful factor in determining prices than the characteristics of particular countries
and another co-author of the paper. ee finding those things don seem to matter relative to the retailer showing prices in the same currency.
the variation in prices observed in non-Euro countries most likely does not come from variations in production and distribution.
More evidence for the idea that the common currency drives identical pricing is that in countries like Denmark,
which do not use the Euro but peg their currencies to it, prices diverge markedly from nearby Eurozone countries.
The same holds for countries that do not use the U s. dollar, but peg their own currencies to it. hen we look at countries that do not use the same currency
but are pegged, we still find an enormous amount of dispersion, Cavallo says. hat points to the fact it not the flexibility
Cavallo says. r it could be that these firms just think about their pricing just in terms of currencies.
Whatever the benefits or flaws of the Eurozone, the research indicates that the common currency is delivering on one of the stated aims of its backers:
aving one currency means implicitly that in good times, you are buying the price stability of Germany.
if this zero volatility has to do with countries being in a currency union, versus if it is fixed because of a exchange rate,
For instance, with the entrance of Latvia to the Eurozone, they are now comparing how that change in currency has affected prices in Latvia u
or thousands of dollars upfront Hynes says. When a fleet customer looks at the numbers they want to see benefits based on fuel savings
or aid in stroke recovery is a multibillion-dollar endeavor that only rarely pays off in the form of government-approved pharmaceuticals.
capstan-based mechanism ensures that the battery-powered device can lift two soldiers sometimes carrying 80 to 100 pounds of equipment swiftly along an attached rope, without jamming.
dubbed the APA-5 developed with funding from the Office of Naval Research Tech Solutions Program weighs roughly 20 pounds
and can lift up to 600 pounds at speeds of up to several feet per second. First designed for soldiers who plunged into caves and wells in Iraq and Afghanistan
Original specifications for the invention called for a device that weighed less than 25 pounds and could hoist 250 pounds 50 feet vertically in five seconds a remarkably high power-to-weight ratio exceeding that of a Dodge Viper, the team calculated.
Using drill batteries and other custom-designed equipment, the team completed a working prototype that achieved a 50-foot lift in seven seconds.
and launch their first product, the APA-3. Weighing 28 pounds, the first APA could lift up to 350 pounds at 5 feet per second,
and was adopted by several U s. military groups.)As one of the few companies in the relatively new but growing power-ascension market, Atlas has needed to continually hone APA specifications to meet field and customer expectations.
with smaller diameters. o carry a 200-foot section of rope was up to 15 pounds;
now it closer to 8 pounds, Ball says. ee always trying to find better ways to accomplish things.
by the MIT $100k Entrepreneurship Competition has earned millions of dollars in private and federal funding. In 2012, Semprus sold to a medical device-manufacturing giant for an amount that could reach $80 million.
But this machine cost about $200 and weighed over 100 pounds, meaning villagers couldn easily afford
billions of dollars could be saved. Not just finding the culprits These early innovations to the hardware have nabled Essess to have this large-scale,
a film roughly the size of a sheet of paper costs only a few euros. Ensinger says that the price of gold is not a factor
but are made for a few hundred dollars less and operate with greater efficiency, Coe-Sullivan says.
"Acknowledged Project The now patented Biogàsplus technology received in 2011 a 100,000 dollar grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
which corresponds to about one-third of a thousand-trillionth of a pound or one-seventh of a thousand-trillionth of a kilogram.
Each device would probably cost pennies instead of pounds making it ideal technology for use in developing countries where there are not enough medically trained staff to effectively monitor
The study may have great implications to a multi-billion dollar electronics industry that seeks to revolutionize technology at scales 80000 times smaller than the human hair.
"It has the potential to totally change the world's electronic basis. It's a trillion-dollar prospect. l
or thousands of dollars you'd shell out to buy one. Even the minimalist#Printrbot Simple retails at $299.#
Eliminating the expendable rockets needed to boost the shuttle into space could theoretically reduce the cost of launches from $10000 per pound to $1000 per pound.
Each pound you put into orbit requires about 10 pounds or so of fuel to get it there says NASA's Dumbacher.
but at the time cost nearly $5 per pound. â ##What we don t know is
Its goal is less than a dollar per test. And at that price, it's potentially the cheapest system yet s
It will carry a full nine person infantry squad along with their equipment up to 3200 pounds total.
The vehicle itself will weigh no more than 4500 pounds making the fully loaded and crewed vehicle under 8000 pounds.
It has to fit inside a CH-47 Chinook cargo helicopter so that the crew can drive right in
There is so much demand for the open source products sold on the site that the waiting list alone contains nearly half a million dollars worth of orders.
but doing so at high speeds in three dimensions on a rocking platform in the middle of the ocean with airplanes worth millions of dollars The X-47b#has earned a pair of nicknames:#
and weighs around 60 pounds. According to Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine the plan is to start slowly with 20 Peppers by the end of the year.
We are way past the MULTI-BILLION dollars in investments by now. Thanks Sebastian. Â s
The document says that there will be subsidies of up to 30000 yuan (4800 US dollars) for those who purchase
and its global market size is expected to reach 500 billion US dollars by 2020 the year by which the Korean government had set out to have a robot in every household.
Both drones have fixed wings weigh less than 55 pounds each and have wingspans of less than 10 feet
Deploying them could cost more than a trillion dollars, one expert estimates. The new study puts the concept of CDR to the testithout getting into the specifics of which technology to use.
a 100-pound biped robot designed by the team, along with the interface, for disaster response.
Ram lab aims to overcome major hurdles in integrating optical interconnection for microprocessors within existing manufacturing systems. typical microprocessor fab costs between 1 and 3 billion dollars,
the proliferation of these billion-dollar startups has raised eyebrows as well as concerns in the fast-moving technology sector.
All of these firms are not going to get a multibillion dollar buyout or massive public offering.
The biggest'unicorns'roaming the US Billion-dollar startups or"unicorns"have been multiplying but only a small number have reached the value of $10 billionarning the nickname"decacorns."
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