Clearly, the human variation model would not attribute all the problems of environmental fit to deliberate or negligent exclusion.[6] It would regard some of the most manifestly inadequate provisions for people with disabilities as arising from a complex mix of contempt, fear, indifference, financial pressure, technological limitation, and bureaucratic inertia.
Here we use a hybrid computable general equilibrium model, in which sub-optimalities, infrastructural inertia and technological uncertainties are explicitly introduced, to quantify the trajectories of variation in transitions costs under a range of climate policy scenarios in both Annex I and developing nations.
Slowing climate change requires overcoming inertia in political, technological, and geophysical systems.
An important question addressed in this article is whether maintaining technological diversity can help overcome inertia.
However, given the potential benefits that could accrue from new technologies and concepts, the inertia of the industry cannot be justified, nor its excessive focus on seismic tools, when alternative tools could bring step-change technological advances and benefits.
Various PCM technologies tailored for building applications are studied with respect to technological potential to improve indoor environment, increase thermal inertia and decrease energy use for building operation.
While you're strolling through a virtual Morrisons and selecting the pre-roasted chicken that will be delivered to your door, take a moment to remember that the future was supposed to have been about more than technological solutions to growing levels of physical inertia.
A possible limit to the technological solution here proposed is the thermal inertia of the Rankine cycles that imposes a quite continuous availability of flue gas.
Some of this may be chalked up to what academics refer to as "incumbents' inertia" in the face of technological change.
At the policy level we must begin to study how momentum of technological innovation and solutions can be impeded by societal inertia caused by the identity factor.
