Moses imagines having a demonstration plant running by 2020 and commercial technology by 2030.
With the backing of ConocoPhillips, an energy giant, it is building a 2MW demonstration plant in Texas.
This demonstration plant is a big step for Virent, but commercialization is still a long ways off.
Ivanhoe, the announcement proclaimed, had just successfully completed a test run at a demonstration plant outside Bakersfield, Calif.
The firm has built a 40 kilowatt demonstration plant and is partnering with AES, a utility, to build a 1-2MW system.
Virent Energy Systems has built a demonstration plant that can turn beet sugar into gasoline at a rate of 10, 000 gallons per year.
The aim is to start building a 90MW demonstration plant in Strasfurt, Germany, in 2013, says Peter Moser, the head of RWE's research arm.
The 275-megawatt demonstration plant is designed to prove the feasibility of producing electricity and hydrogen from coal, while simultaneously capturing the carbon dioxide and sequestering it in deep underground reservoirs.
Later this year, it will take the wraps off a demonstration plant outside of Shanghai that will convert the carbon monoxide from a steel mill into 100, 000 gallons of ethanol a year.
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Last week, Joule commissioned a demonstration plant in Hobbs, New Mexico for its radical approach of directly making ethanol from sunlight and CO2 on a fraction of the land used with traditional approaches.
If the demonstration plant works as well as hoped, the plan will be to build combined electricity and hydrogen generating stations in locations where there are geological formations containing saline water overlain by a thick caprock serving as a seal.
Construction of the world's main demonstration power plant that will use magnetic confinement is under way at Cadarache in France.
Officially, the government's pilot plant is a demonstration for others (particularly China, which is building coal plants at breakneck speed) designed to show that the embryonic technology works.
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Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), a big grain processor, has provided CO2 from its huge ethanol plant in Decatur, Illinois, for two demonstration projects.
"Taking this major step toward cleaning up the Capitol Power Plant's emissions would be an important demonstration of Congress' willingness to deal with the enormous challenges of global warming, energy independence and our inefficient use of finite fossil fuels, " they wrote.
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More than 1, 000 workers from Termini Imerese, the Sicilian plant threatened with closure under the restructuring plan, will be driven to Rome for a demonstration to coincide with crisis talks between Mr Berlusconi, his key ministers and Fiat management.
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