Sentence examples for unusual technologies from inspiring English sources

Solyndra and Evergreen in particular suffered because they pursued unusual technologies whose competitiveness depended on their using less polysilicon, the main material for solar panels.

We prefer to invest in unproven or unusual technologies rather than chase the latest fad".

As Forbes.com surveyed investments made by venture capitalists this past year, we looked not just for big deals but for companies with unusual technologies or in surprising niches, which recently received additional rounds of venture financing.

Maintaining Embassytown is important for two reasons: the planet's unusual technologies and its position at the edge of unexplored space.

When considering the costs of a specific illness, especially one that does not involve unusual technologies, treatments, or medical skills and one that does not comprise a large portion of the total number of visits, estimates of the marginal costs of treatment are appropriate.

While nearly all highly trafficked consumer sites encounter slowdowns from time to time, the length of the difficulties at Bank of America's Web site is unusual, technology experts said.

Though the investment may seem unusual — technology companies, not magazine publishers, are the primary drivers of cloud computing — Robert A. Sauerberg, president of Condé Nast, said it represented an aggressive strategy.

The unlikely fashion commentators were talking about Moon Berlin, a new label that combines the design work of Brigitte Franken and Christian Bruns with the unusual technology that the two engineers developed over the last five years to, quite literally, light up the room.

Television is an unusual technology in that most of the electric power it demands is consumed inside homes.

"Beyond kilometres of roofs, past rotating church-beacons, were the power stations," writes Miéville in the first chapter, signaling but not explaining the unusual technology.

Lying beneath their plans was an unusual technology: a series of tubes that literally suck garbage from buildings at speeds up to 60 miles per hour to a central collection point, where the trash is taken off the island by truck or barge.