Once it proves it can operate at the scale, it expects to make a larger commercial-scale plant.
As it makes the tricky transition from demonstration-scale production to commercial-scale manufacturing, it has little room for execution error.
Cellulosic ethanol uses non-food feed stocks with significant greenhouse gas emission reductions, and the first commercial-scale plant is being built today in Soperton, Ga.
Ohio-based American Electric Power, the largest consumer of coal in the U.S., is trying to build the country's first super-efficient commercial-scale coal gasification plant.
Certainly, the volume from demo and even commercial-scale advanced biofuels facilities is tiny when compared to petrofuels and much less than corn ethanol production.
In New Zealand, commercial-scale wineries are largely dependent on migrant labor.
We're now on track to go from zero -- zero commercial-scale biofuel refineries to 19 by the year 2012, and from no commercial-scale power plants operating carbon capture to five by the year 2015.
We also expect to be announcing groundbreaking plants for commercial scale -- cellulosic and advanced biorefinery plants -- in the next two years.
The two companies will examine ways of enabling large-scale commercial production of Aquamarine's new wave energy device, known as Oyster.
This will set the stage for full-scale commercial power that can drive American prosperity for centuries to come.
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The military has taken over what used to be large-scale commercial farms to try to boost food production.
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Whereas heat for domestic-scale commercial installations could come from solar technologies or even heat pumps, it is widely acknowledged that the primary market can only be supplied by biomass.
According to a recent survey, Zimbabwe's peasant farmers want to be small-scale commercial farmers and they can do it: they now produce most of the country's maize and cotton.
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While the technology is pre-commercial right now, Atlantis has built full-scale, functional unit, he said.
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If successful, these and other small-scale demonstrations could lead to the widespread commercial take-up of superconducting cables within the next few years.
We've also taken the lead on advancing carbon-capture technology to commercial scale for new and existing plants.
As with much of farming and food production, it is the large-scale industrial-commercial enterprises that draw more criticism than small family-run farms.
Beyond the touristy town of Punta Cana in the southeast, the country becomes a vast natural landscape of vibrant greens and blues, unmarred by large-scale tourism or commercial hotels.
In its SEC filing, Capital Trust said the "retrenchment" of the banks and their relatively conservative lending practices today "have created a large scale opportunity" to make commercial-real-estate loans.
The increase in so-called utility-scale installations masked relatively flat growth in residential rooftop solar and a fall-off in commercial installations.
Over the past two decades, emerging market countries and companies have increasingly looked to the private capital markets (i.e. the issuing of stocks and bonds) for larger-scale funding and away from their traditional reliance on syndicated commercial bank loans and Western government financing vehicles.
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What is the scale-up factor between what they actually demonstrated and what a commercial plant will be?
Hong Kong Telecom plans to bring the world's first commercial video-on-demand service to the territory this year, the first step toward full-scale interactive television.
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