Rogers is hoping to add a few nuclear plants to existing sites while he waits for more affordable technologies to remove the 100 million tons or so of CO2 (that would be 27 million tons of carbon) his power plants send up the stack each year.
Näsström et al. acknowledge that mass spectrometers are too complex and expensive for routine use, but other more affordable technologies may be able to detect the six-metabolite fingerprint that they have identified.
The advent of faster and more affordable sequencing technology, coupled with increased computational power, has permitted comparisons of whole Listeria genome sequences from isolates recovered from clinical, food, and environmental sources.
Fortunately, this and other data-processing steps are becoming more affordable as technology evolves.
Practical and more affordable infrared technology for CO2 measurement is now available in the form of hand-held portable devices or is embedded in portable defibrillators.
This raises the question if the shorter reads obtained with the more affordable sequencing technologies are sufficient for gene expression studies – i.e.: could they be mapped to the corresponding genes with a similar efficiency as longer sequence reads?
The maturity and usage of wireless technology has influenced health services, and this has raised expectations from users that healthcare services will become more affordable due to technology growth.
"Zenith, Beltone, Sonotone are some of the American companies that used his improved, more affordable hearing-aid technology," said Chet Michalak, who is writing a biography of Mr. Krim.
But an engineer who heard Dr. Dixon discuss Braille displays at a conference several years ago may have come up with a solution, a display that may one day be much more affordable than current technology, which costs $3,000 to $12,000.
Although the truth is perhaps less sensational, one thing is clear: biohacking is a rapidly growing field, driven by ever more powerful – yet affordable – technology.
