Both teams went directly to the urban slums, asked questions, built a pilot, went back to ask more questions, talked with mentors, received support and worked in collaboration with their university, but most importantly: they didn't give up.
Shell built a pilot facility in Hawaii to grow the stuff, which produces an oil that can be converted into biofuel.
USEC has built a pilot-scale enrichment plant, with help from the Energy Department, with the idea that if it cannot work as a commercial product, the government will take it over to maintain a small enrichment capability for national security purposes.
Therefore, in a project funded by both the UFZ and the German Ministry of Education and Research, the UFZ built a pilot-scale research plant in Langenreichenbach (Saxony, Germany).
"We won't know for sure until someone builds a pilot plant".
It will build a pilot "clean coal" plant on one of the cancelled dirty-coal sites.
Dr Stein recently managed to convince DHL, a large logistics firm, to chip in, and hopes, with its help, to build a pilot tunnel later this year.
Calpine has agreed to let him build a pilot greenhouse next to one of its natural-gas-powered generating plants probably the one in Dighton, Massachusetts.
The company had applied to the Energy Department for financing under the stimulus bill, but would build a pilot plant with or without a grant, he said.
Three years later, along with two private partners, it received a grant for 180 million euros, or $228 million, to build a pilot plant, to be followed by an industrial-scale plant for completion by 2015.
SustainX, based in Seabrook, New Hampshire, is set to build a pilot isothermal plant capable of storing and releasing up to two megawatts of power, making it the largest demonstration of the technology to date.
