Solar thermal energy is low cost and easy to collect, and 100% efficient.
National and local government agencies need to be supported to develop their capacity to design and implement low cost appropriate systems that are efficient, sustainable, managed by local communities, targeted at those most in need and that address multiple needs of the poor.
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Right now, the critical barriers to entry for an entrepreneur with a disruptive idea (read: technology which may scale exponentially and unpredictably) are gaining access to low-cost, efficient infrastructure, implementing extremely complex software to maximize compute power and storage, and minimizing maintenance concerns.
Dull but highly tax-efficient and extremely low cost: This no-load index fund attempts to mimic the Wilshire 5000 by investing in large, mid and small caps.
For the user it means much more efficient and low-cost communications.
These would include: an investor cannot pick the return but can only choose the level of risk, One cannot accurately predict the market, Diversification lowers risk, Invest to be on the Efficient Frontier and low cost investments can improve performance vs. high costs.
If we're more efficient and equally religious about being low cost, as we have been in our other businesses, we will have a profitable company.
For example, rather than purchase expensive ultra-efficient motors, low cost opportunistic additions to old fans and pumps such as variable frequency drives and demand controls can deliver equal energy savings at a fraction of the cost.
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This is mainly due to the high levels of risk and uncertainty that come with new tech: private firms would generally rather seek out low-risk, low-cost alternatives (i.e. more efficient internal processes or capital goods) than to invest time and effort into developing high-risk, initially-high cost alternatives (i.e. hydrogen fuel cells).
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