And, rather than just looking for incrementally faster, better or cheaper improvements, they dare to dream big.
Silicon has the merit of being cheap: manufacturing improvements have brought its price to a point where it is snapping at the heels of fossil fuels.
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Cheap cameras and improvements in memory and computing power have enabled the design of fire detectors using video surveillance systems.
Finding oil trapped between salt, sand and rock at depths of thousands of feet will never be easy or cheap, but continued improvements in imaging techniques are opening up areas to petroleum geologists and engineers that they couldn't see before.
Shifting the world's energy-aid programs from expensive coal plants to cheap energy-performance improvements is a third.
The FRA study curtails its ambitions appropriately, discarding speeds of over 160 mph (258 kph) out of hand, and instead focussing on cheaper, more modest improvements.
It feels like the combination of fast free data, ample venture capital money, low interest rates, easy outsourced labor, ever cheaper hosting costs, improvements in processing power, make new companies easier to scale than ever before.
While a handful of projects – such as the $1.6bn MetLife football stadium in New Jersey – were entirely privately financed, many still received tax breaks, public infrastructure improvements or cheap land sales.
Wouldn't be cheap but certainly an improvement on their current crop of players.
