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.
Still, it is reasonable to worry about security in telecoms: recent reports have pointed to the efforts of Chinese state-sponsored hackers to vacuum up valuable Western commercial secrets on a massive scale.
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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