When workable designs of any type, which serve a function beyond fashion, are presented, they're treated as novelties.
Anyway, Mr. Spies said, the competition was not intended to produce a workable design, but only ideas, and in that it succeeded, he said.
While permanent-magnet motors are the most popular type used in electric and hybrid drive systems — an estimated 90 percent of today's electric vehicles use this design, said Kevin Riddell, an analyst with LMC Automotive — they are not the only workable design.
Producing a workable design involved a lot of trial and error: "When you are crafting wood for a piece of art, you varnish it to make it glossy and nice.
Come up with a simple, workable design, he said, do the best you can, and enjoy the process, knowing that neither of you will get all that you want out of it.
There had been suspicions (later confirmed from drawings found in Libya) that in earlier times, when it was more careless about proliferation, China had actually given Pakistan the workable design for a bomb.Laxity all roundBy ending a period of self-restraint over sales to Pakistan, China is undermining the credibility of the NSG.
He tracked down a contractor in Los Angeles who had collected some 40,000 discarded traffic light lenses (which have become obsolete as older traffic signals are replaced with light-emitting diodes around the country) and set to work on a workable design.
Along with two other students, James Rose and Garrett Eckbo, who were bored with "the dry symmetries of the Beaux-Arts," he wrote a series of articles for Architectural Record that called for a new kind of landscape architecture, a functional one that answered the needs of people in cities and suburbs, and looked to nature for clues to harmonious and workable design.
It is reusable and expendable as a workable design tool for a variety of engineering problems.
But the difficulty in finding a workable design for the spacecraft's lidar instrument means its total budget will now top 590m euros (£500m).
