Core elements of that project are now being applied at scale in India's Bihar state, but that is unusual.
Any new technology when applied at scale, when networked, basically creates a new mesh of sensors in our lives that detect something – they could be changes in the weather, they could be our calling habits, they could be the way we purchase things, they could be the things we like, they could be the temperature we like our bathtubs.
This means that it's initially working with fractions, but when applied at scale (to the 88 million Americans already using coupons), it has the chance to become a big business.
We're not looking for new, exotic, high-tech things -- we're looking for things that actually work, but have not been applied at scale or consistently.
Further, methods for sequencing phage genomes at scale cannot require a priori knowledge of the genome, since traditional primer-based approaches require primer design and are too labor and cost intensive to be applied at scale.
The sheer abundance and ecological importance of phage in most environments, coupled with limited knowledge of their genetic makeup, demands establishing genomic methods that can be applied at scale and implemented to decipher the genetic frameworks that drive phage biology.
However, in practice, the productivity maps are likely to be applied at scales much coarser than those of an individual plot.
While new production techniques might apply at local scale, biodiversity conservation inevitably requires strategies at landscape and larger scales.
Undoubtedly, longer penetration depth and ability to generate volumetric heat enable RF assisted heating a very promising technology to apply at industrial scale.
Could it be that the same principles that apply at very small scales — at the scale of ice crystals on a windowpane, or of atoms in a superconductor — also apply at very large scales?
