Certainly, the use of more sensitive timing technologies merits consideration.
Still, while direct air capture won't be ready for deployment any time soon, climate experts say negative emissions technologies merit more attention.
And a looming decision by the Philippine government about whether to allow Golden Rice to be grown beyond its four remaining field trials has added a new dimension to the debate over the technology's merits.
Here's Dr. Wang describing these tools and the hurdles to wider adoption of the technology: The merits of telemedicine seem utterly obvious, but I learn that Medicare and insurers don't reimburse for this sort of care, with a few exceptions, because the doctor is not physically at the bedside.
"If a technology has merit, there is no need to subsidize it, and if a technology does not have merit, no amount of government subsidy is going to give it merit".
Some legal experts, meanwhile, contend that technology cases merit no special consideration.
"It is tied to a corporation wanting to make a huge amount of money, not because that service or that technology has merit".
De-risking new innovations through third party testing and validation shows that the technology has merit if developed, yielding valuable information on potential investments at low cost.
Proposals to require background checks for ammunition sales, impose a tax on ammunition, require liability insurance for guns, and smart gun technologies all merit immediate attention.
However, although this technology has several merits, it is difficult to adopt in every coal mine, especially deep buried soft rock coal mines, where the entryway convergence is extremely severe (Zhang et al. 2012; Kong et al. 2014).
