Falling prices for those cells would make the heavy infrastructure needed for Desertec's concentrated solar power unviable.
A recent United Nations report shows that governments and businesses in a growing number of developing nations have begun building the infrastructure needed for online commerce.
India has already reached the jet age and the atomic age but has lagged behind in the infrastructure needed for an increasing volume of truck and car traffic.
"We know it's going to be a unique challenge for us".A lack of infrastructure, needed for the import of exploration equipment, is another impediment.
In addition, many resources are either in short supply or the infrastructure needed for delivery, like railways or ships, is insufficient to meet demand.
Other ambitious propulsion technologies, such as fuel cells, have got bogged down by questions about the infrastructure needed for fuel distribution.
Interest in creating MEMS grew in the 1980s, but it took nearly two decades to establish the design and manufacturing infrastructure needed for their commercial development.
Such financing enables local governments to borrow against tax revenues anticipated from a major redevelopment to raise the money for infrastructure needed for the development — roads and sewers, for example.
Of about two dozen companies investigated by the comptroller general's office, known as the CGU, just five are building most of the nearly 40bn reais' ($10.5 billion) worth of venues and infrastructure needed for the Olympics in Rio.
More than half a century later, Barcelona demonstrated how the new infrastructure needed for the games - from housing to new roads - could be used to revitalise both the city centre and decaying parts of the town.
