Absent that, California would now be littered with scores of obsolete yet hugely expensive conventional power plants, a great many of them nuclear.
Extracting these hydrocarbons would be hugely expensive using conventional means, but oil companies such as Shell are now building floating liquefied natural gas production systems which would reduce costs.
Amidst what was, by academic standards, a conventional and hugely successful career, there was another story: that of the decline and fall of the idea of "European" studies, and the shrinking pool of British students with the interest or the language skills to study German at degree level.
An important study showed grass-fed beef is nothing like conventional beef: it's hugely healthier!
Buying these in conventional seed packs would be hugely expensive.
Development of reliable models which can predict such materials' behavior is of massive advantage against the conventional experimental verification which is hugely expensive and time-consuming.
The writer also points out that while sport-utility vehicles (S.U.V.s) and pickup trucks account for about 1/3rd of the vehicles on the road, they cause a hugely disproportionate number of fatalities in crashes with conventional automobiles.
His bold, colourful, blobby architecture might not be to everyone's taste; yet, at their best, his buildings are hugely enjoyable, collectively a kind of two-fingers-up to conventional notions of good taste and polite, late-flowering modernism.
At the time of winning the Guardian charity award, one judge commented: "The judges were hugely impressed with this project's inspirational work.Where conventional methods have failed, Straight Talking is succeeding".
Overall, none of this is hugely surprising, though it may thumb its nose a bit at conventional branding wisdom.
