In the early 1950s a Dr. Lyne Borst of Utah University was given funding by various US railroad line and manufactures to study the feasibility of an electric drive locomotive in which an on board atomic reactor produced the steam to generate the electricity.

The feasibility of population transfer was hugely increased by the creation of railroad networks from the mid-19th century.

A U. S. War Department expedition led by Lt. Joseph Ives was launched in 1857 to investigate the area's potential for natural resources, to find railroad routes to the west coast, and assess the feasibility of an up-river navigation route from the Gulf of California.

Talk of an Alaska-Canada railroad traversing Tahltan lands recurs every so often with feasibility studies being done.

There followed a long and sometimes bitter discussion of the feasibility of elections for the fall of 1957, in which it appears that the Minister of the Interior took the most pessimistic view and that the Istiqlal was something less than enthusiastic.

To begin, $ 5 million was sought from the African Development Bank ( ADB ) for feasibility studies.

The idea was abandoned after feasibility studies failed to prove it was possible.

As soon as the SSEM had demonstrated the feasibility of its design, a project was initiated at the university to develop it into a more usable computer, the Manchester Mark 1.

The architect made three secretive trips to Paris, to determine the feasibility of the project ; only one museum employee knew why he was there.

Higher concentrations of THC and drug tourism have challenged the current policy and led to a re-examination of the current approach ; for e. g. ban of all sales of cannabis to tourists in coffee shops from end of 2011 was proposed but currently only the border city of Maastricht has adopted the measure in order to test out its feasibility.

In the 1520s and 1530s, the Spanish crown had ordered surveys of the isthmus to determine the feasibility of such a canal, but the idea was soon abandoned.

In psychology, the subject of imagination was again explored more extensively since Whitehead, and the question of feasibility or " eternal objects " of thought became central to the impaired theory of mind explorations that framed postmodern cognitive science.

An early explorer of this view was Alan Turing who sought to prove the limits of expressive complexity of human genes in the late 1940s, to put bounds on the complexity of human intelligence and so assess the feasibility of artificial intelligence emerging.

Within days a feasibility report was prepared and a project approval proforma called PC-1 finalised.

In one feasibility study, speech recognition equipment was tested in conjunction with an integrated information display for naval battle management applications.

The road's initial feasibility study was planned to be presented in November 2009.

The agreement was non-operational until June 2001 when MERCOSUR invited the U. S. to discuss the feasibility of market access negotiations.

A small reactor was used to supply power ( 1. 5 MWe ) and heating to McMurdo Station, a US Antarctic base, for ten years to 1972, testing the feasibility of such air-portable units for remote locations.

At that time there was an investigation by the British government into the feasibility of an attack using anthrax: to test the vulnerability of Britain against a German attack and the viability of attacking Germany with a British bio-weapon.

It was used to demonstrate the feasibility of using Unix on a supercomputer system, prior to the availability of Cray-2 hardware.

The feasibility of Leonardo's pyramidal design was successfully tested in 2000 by the British Adrian Nicholas and again in 2008 by another skydiver.

RPGamer reported in July 2004 that Square was polling die-hard customers, testing the feasibility of porting Final Fantasy Adventure to the Nintendo DS.

It was designed to assess the feasibility of mounting a flying boat's engine in the extreme bow thereby producing a low drag installation.

In August 1942 Anglo-Canadian forces attempted an abortive landing — Operation Jubilee — at the French port of Dieppe ; the landing was designed to test the feasibility of a cross-channel invasion.

The feasibility of the Restoration was in doubt, but the allure of peace to a war-weary French public, and demonstrations of support for the Bourbons in Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille, and Lyons, helped assure the Allies.

A research aircraft, the Type 188, was constructed in the 1950s to test the feasibility of stainless steel as a material in a Mach 2. 0 airframe.

In the ensuing debate, many advantages and disadvantages of the different candidates were investigated by cryptographers ; they were assessed not only on security, but also on performance in a variety of settings ( PCs of various architectures, smart cards, hardware implementations ) and on their feasibility in limited environments ( smart cards with very limited memory, low gate count implementations, FPGAs ).

Camden, converting part or all of Richmond and Canberra will be investigated for feasibility, while Bankstown and Badgerys Creek, according to sources, will not.

He was engineer, with Sir James Brunlees, of the original Channel Tunnel Company from 1872, but many years previously he had investigated for himself the question of a tunnel under the Strait of Dover from an engineering point of view, and had come to a belief in its feasibility, so far as that could be determined from borings and surveys.

After a CIA agent investigated the feasibility of such a plan, it was proposed that the CIA supply the needed arms and $ 225, 000 to Castillo Armas, and that Nicaragua and Honduras should supply air support to the Guatemalan rebels.

The project, partially funded by the World Bank, was initiated on January 2003, when a handful of companies investigated its feasibility.

In the wake of shoulder-launched missile attacks against civilian passenger and cargo airliners in the early 2000s, various agencies investigated the feasibility of equipping countermeasures such as chaff and flares.

Several cities have investigated the feasibility of replicating the High Line, " including Chicago, Philadelphia, and St. Louis ".

Despite this comment, Samuelson spent the last 50 years of his life obsessed with the problems of capital theory identified by Hayek and Böhm-Bawerk, and Samuelson flatly judged Hayek to have been right and his own teacher, Joseph Schumpeter, to have been wrong on the central economic question of the 20th century, the feasibility of socialist economic planning in a production goods dominated economy.

Long fascinated by Carlos Castaneda ’ s The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, Fellini accompanied the Peruvian author on a journey to the Yucatán to assess the feasibility of a film.

The feasibility of the basic technologies analyzed in Nanosystems has been the subject of a formal scientific review by U. S. National Academy of Sciences, and has also been the focus of extensive debate on the internet and in the popular press.

Its aim is to convince the Swiss public of the interest and feasibility of the Martian exploration with inhabited flights through the Mars direct concept such as described by Robert Zubrin.

The construction of this missing link, as per the feasibility study conducted by the Ministry of External Affairs through RITES Ltd, is estimated to cost Rs 2, 941 crore ($ 725m ).

A feasibility study by March 2008.

A feasibility study on has been carried out by consultants Team ( Nig ) Ltd of Nigeria ; the only obstacle now is the lack of funds.

In the 1960s, Lockheed and MIT with the United States Department of Commerce conducted feasibility studies on a vactrain system powered by ambient atmospheric pressure and " gravitational pendulum assist " to connect cities on the East Coast of the US.

Given concerns about the previous programs using nuclear-tipped interceptors, in the 1980s the U. S. Army began studies about the feasibility of hit-to-kill vehicles, i. e. interceptor missiles that would destroy incoming ballistic missiles just by colliding with them head-on.

The capacity of the surrounding sediment to contain the nuclear waste products has been cited by the U. S. federal government as supporting evidence for the feasibility to store spent nuclear fuel at the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

For example, from 2002 – 2005, the EDICT project, sponsored by the European Union, conducted a study on the feasibility of PRT in four European cities.

It is theoretically possible to prove the correctness of certain classes of computer programs, though the feasibility of actually achieving this in large-scale practical systems is regarded as small by some with practical experience in the industry — see Bruce Schneier et al.

Generals such as Sir William Robertson were critical of Kitchener's failure to ask the General Staff ( whose chief James Wolfe-Murray was intimidated by Kitchener ) to study the feasibility of any of these campaigns.

TfL is conducting a feasibility study on the station and the project is backed by National Grid, retailers Sainsbury's and Cath Kidston, and Jenny Jones ( Green Party member of the London Assembly ).

TfL is conducting a feasibility study on the station and the project is backed by National Grid, retailers Sainsbury's and Cath Kidston, and Jenny Jones ( Green Party member of the London Assembly ).

A feasibility study was requested by PSJ4T members.

However, a report by the Department of Transport as part of the 2008-2010 Severn Tidal Power feasibility study carried out by the Department for Energy and Climate Change, concluded that there was not any current need for new transport links, either by road or rail.