For now, WaveCrest's main focus is electric bicycles, which General Clark said were practical to build because of their one-horsepower engines.
Last year, seven prizes of $30,000 each were awarded and additional grants were made later to help spread word of practical solutions, build business and financial expertise among local small businesses and create an educational campaign.
(The grid of filters is necessary because it's not yet practical to build the pixel layer directly out of quantum dots, and the industry is already very experienced using color filters).
"They spotted the opportunity to make use of the large volumes of waste furniture, wood and other materials that are discarded on the streets of south London, to create opportunities to share practical skills, build community and grow new enterprises".
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For operation at relatively long metre wavelengths where the reflecting surface need not have an accuracy better than a few centimetres, it becomes practical to build very large fixed structures in which the reflecting surface can be made of simple "chicken wire" fencing or even parallel rows of wires.
This paper aims at answering the question whether it is practical to build a mesh-phone or not.
No, it wouldn't really be practical to build a car precisely like a Bentley Continental today; the fenders and beltline are all too high.
But Mr Yeo, who was a minister for countryside and environment in John Major's government, told BBC Two's Daily Politics: "I think it's more practical to build a third runway.
Since it is not practical to build a flying platform that can directly convert the biomass into energy needed to flap wings at the moment, we had to come up with a different option to "feed" Robo Raven.
