While there is potential for biomass energy in India, the country lacks the efficiency, logistical infrastructure and investments of countries like Finland.
The Chinese government has been extremely clever in its design of its logistical infrastructure, putting all its new airports "in the right place", says Mr Smith, who nonetheless seems queasy about the means to that end.
But in recent years, fires like the one that engulfed the Granite Mountain Hotshots have become more frequent and more dangerous, straining the men on the front line and the logistical infrastructure that stands behind them.
A Spanish intelligence assessment in early 2003 concluded that there could be terrorist "sleeper cells" of Islamic radicals with a financial and logistical infrastructure in the country that could be activated "at any given moment".
One important step will be to link the orders of each web shopper with every supplier by connecting Tesco Direct with its new extranet.But to be a genuine e-commerce leader, Tesco will, before long, have to build a first-class technology and logistical infrastructure, including dedicated picking centres.
To support these forces, the Americans constructed an enormous logistical infrastructure that included four new jet-capable air bases with 10,000-foot (3,000-metre 3,000-metreix new deepwaterunways, 75 tactical air basix, 26 hospitals, anewmore than 10,000,000 square feet (900,000 square metres) of warehousing.
Transportation, logistical and infrastructure plans are also of the highest quality.
The thinking goes that once the company has built its logistical delivery infrastructure in any given area, it's no longer limited to picking up and dropping off food — DoorDash believes it could deliver just about anything.
He told me by phone from South Africa that there were huge logistical and infrastructure issues which make Africa a tricky place to scale in, but that he is confident that the corporate-backed accelerator model will succeed where other attempts have failed.
Even when this is feasible, logistical and infrastructure challenges still impede integration into practice.
Reimbursement for dialysis services, which has changed little since 1982, is delivered on a per-treatment basis, irrespective of medical, logistical, and infrastructure complexities; cost containment has been a concern since the early days of the Medicare ESRD program [ 2].
