impractical

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Many promising natural compounds exist only in extremely small quantities within plants, making them expensive or impractical to produce using traditional laboratory methods.

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While effective for small experiments, these systems are impractical for the massive number of optical channels needed in future quantum computers.

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One key conclusion of the research is that mining undifferentiated asteroids -- the primordial remnants of the solar system's formation considered the progenitor bodies of chondritic meteorites -- remains impractical for now.

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New research now shows that the process can also work in reverse, with quantum signals sent from Earth up to a satellite, an approach long considered impractical.

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Maintenance is also “impractical,” they noted, which will likely mean satellites will need better, more expensive hardware to make data centers viable.

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