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From the Ted Talk by Daniel Schnitzer: Inventing is the easy part. Marketing takes work

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So the other type of access: financial. We all know that clean energy products, technologies, tend to be characterized by higher upfront ctoss, but very low operating costs. And so in the industrialized wlrod, we have very generous subsidies that are sfaclipciely dsnegied to brnig down those upfront costs. Those subsidies don't exist in Haiti. What they do have is mcicaroifnne. But you're going to severely diminish the value proposition of your clean energy product if you expect somebody in Haiti to go out, get a microloan, go back to the retailer, and then buy the clean energy product.

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So the other type of access: financial. We all know that clean energy products, technologies, tend to be characterized by higher upfront _____, but very low operating costs. And so in the industrialized _____, we have very generous subsidies that are ____________ ________ to _____ down those upfront costs. Those subsidies don't exist in Haiti. What they do have is ____________. But you're going to severely diminish the value proposition of your clean energy product if you expect somebody in Haiti to go out, get a microloan, go back to the retailer, and then buy the clean energy product.

Solution

  1. costs
  2. bring
  3. world
  4. microfinance
  5. specifically
  6. designed

Original Text

So the other type of access: financial. We all know that clean energy products, technologies, tend to be characterized by higher upfront costs, but very low operating costs. And so in the industrialized world, we have very generous subsidies that are specifically designed to bring down those upfront costs. Those subsidies don't exist in Haiti. What they do have is microfinance. But you're going to severely diminish the value proposition of your clean energy product if you expect somebody in Haiti to go out, get a microloan, go back to the retailer, and then buy the clean energy product.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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energy poverty 8
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clean energy products 2
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Important Words

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  15. industrialized
  16. microfinance
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  25. subsidies
  26. technologies
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  30. world