Sentence examples for first-generation technology from inspiring English sources

The US ethanol industry receives generous state support, and is based on corn feedstock using first-generation technology that is arguably not much better for the environment than burning the oil it displaces.

But that's what you get with first-generation technology.

"This is first-generation technology, like the Monitor and Merrimack," he said.

"We're not trying to deny that there is a cost associated with these, but any first-generation technology is going to have that," she said.

Also, the current machines are basically "first-generation" technology, "like the computers of the '60's that used to fill a room, and today you have a Palm Pilot that has more in it," he said.

That is true up to a point governments have probably spent too much money on first-generation technology which is inefficient and expensive compared with what is now becoming available.

Next-generation (massively parallel, or second-generation) sequencing technologies have largely supplanted first-generation technologies.

The first-generation technologies mainly focused on food resources such as corn, starch, rice, etc. to produce bio-based polymers.

First-generation technologies are well established, second-generation technologies are entering markets, and third-generation technologies heavily depend on long-term research and development commitments, where the public sector has a role to play.

First-generation technologies are widely used in locations with abundant resources.

First-generation technologies, which are already mature and economically competitive, include biomass, hydroelectricity, geothermal power and heat.