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From the Ted Talk by Astro Teller: The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure

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Here's another huge problem. We pay enormous ctsos in resources and eiervomtnnanl damage to ship goods worldwide. eniomocc development of landlocked countries is limited by lack of shipping inftaruturcsre. The radical solution? A lighter-than-air, variable-buoyancy cargo ship. This has the pettonail to lower, at least overall, the cost, time and carbon foprtniot of shipping without needing runways. We came up with this clever set of technical breakthroughs that together might make it possible for us to lower the cost enough that we could actually make these ships -- inexpensively enough in volume. But however cheap they would have been to make in volume it turned out that it was going to cost close to 200 million dlloars to design and build the first one.

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Here's another huge problem. We pay enormous _____ in resources and _____________ damage to ship goods worldwide. ________ development of landlocked countries is limited by lack of shipping ______________. The radical solution? A lighter-than-air, variable-buoyancy cargo ship. This has the _________ to lower, at least overall, the cost, time and carbon _________ of shipping without needing runways. We came up with this clever set of technical breakthroughs that together might make it possible for us to lower the cost enough that we could actually make these ships -- inexpensively enough in volume. But however cheap they would have been to make in volume it turned out that it was going to cost close to 200 million _______ to design and build the first one.

Solution

  1. costs
  2. potential
  3. economic
  4. environmental
  5. dollars
  6. infrastructure
  7. footprint

Original Text

Here's another huge problem. We pay enormous costs in resources and environmental damage to ship goods worldwide. Economic development of landlocked countries is limited by lack of shipping infrastructure. The radical solution? A lighter-than-air, variable-buoyancy cargo ship. This has the potential to lower, at least overall, the cost, time and carbon footprint of shipping without needing runways. We came up with this clever set of technical breakthroughs that together might make it possible for us to lower the cost enough that we could actually make these ships -- inexpensively enough in volume. But however cheap they would have been to make in volume it turned out that it was going to cost close to 200 million dollars to design and build the first one.

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