The problem is that it remains too costly to produce on a large scale at the moment.

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To meet the growing demand for the Model T, he designed the first moving assembly process to produce cars on a large scale.

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But no one has been able yet to turn these breakthroughs into industrial processes that can produce something useful on a large scale at reasonable cost.

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In the early 1990s with the advent of a free market in Poland, the large national breweries began selling off their unprofitable assets, which typically included brewing equipment that could not produce beer on a sufficiently large scale.

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Solazyme, founded in 2003 and headquartered in South San Francisco, uses patented technology that allows algae to produce oil and biomaterials in standard fermentation facilities quickly, efficiently and on a large scale.

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Companies are using proprietary technology that takes inputs as diverse as algae, willow trees and sugar cane to produce oils and biomaterials in standard fermentation facilities quickly, cleanly, inexpensively and on a large scale.

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