impractical
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That short working distance can make imaging difficult, impractical, or even invasive in certain applications.
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Lanting noted that most quantum computers demand “an impractically large amount of wiring and massive cryogenic enclosures.”
From Barron's
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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