What I believe those skeptics fail to recognize is that though banks are often happy to finance the next factory of an established company or the tenth deployment of a developed technology, they have very little interest or inclination in participating in the first deployment of a technology.
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Landrieu points out banks' reluctance to finance new technologies.
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