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To: combjelly who wrote (544743)	1/18/2010 7:25:52 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) of 1574260

>> It would have been a back burner project until they could get the costs down. No telling how long that would take. What brings cost down is increasing volume [quantity sold]. Low-volume government projects don't contribute to this; what DOES contribute is getting chips into consumer products. When you're selling a million or 20 million calculators you quickly recover the costs of embedded systems. When you're doing custom development for a few one-offs, not so much. On the topic of basic research, there is an obvious and appropriate role for government to bootstrap the process. And I have no objection to well-placed government dollars to get some green technologies going. But a rebate of $7,500 on buying a freaking hybrid is just stupid.

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