Turning ideas about nuclear physics into commercially viable technology is notoriously difficult.
Genetic Engineering became a commercially viable technology at this time.
Hence, in his view, a needy community got little value from the application of viable technology.
"Although these are perfectly viable technologies and have a major impact on system performance, people are still wary."
We're not in the 1990's any more - increasingly viable technologies are emerging to store electricity.
Voice-based search is becoming viable due to advances in speech recognition technology.
Professor Georgescu-Roegen says that during the entire life of the human species, there have been only two viable technologies.
For example, there is financially viable technology available today for solar hot water producton.
So many of the problems we have today can be partially solved if we have viable and effective technology in space.
The search for cleaner and more viable technologies is one of the Commission' s main ambitions.