Before that, the company had a pilot production line at its headquarters.

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Currently, the company has a pilot production line of a few megawatts at its hometown of San Jose, Calif.

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Now the company needs to make the difficult transition from pilot production to higher-volume manufacturing, a step where a number of green-tech upstarts have stumbled.

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During 1994-95, Fiat sent 290 workers and engineers from Betim to Turin to set up a pilot production line for the Palio and build a prototype.

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It plans to accomplish that this year while raising money to work with an equipment manufacturer to create the necessary factory equipment to build a pilot production center by 2015.

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For example, the Air Force's critical pilot shortage would be further exacerbated by reducing the production of new pilots through Undergraduate Pilot Training.

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The team is looking for funding so that they can scale up the production, and to conduct pilot studies in the field.

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The pilot and demonstration are done, and the commercial production facility is under construction now in Pennsylvania the last time I checked.

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South Africa has a long history of syngas production (since the apartheid days), and has pilot facilities that have been operating for some years.

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