Not exact matches
It has built a massive battery plant in Nevada it calls a Gigafactory and plans to build several more of these glob - ally in the
next few years, thinking that massive
manufacturing economies of
scale will drive costs down.
And the
next challenge facing the industry is learning how to
scale up its therapeutic protein
manufacturing facilities.
One California company says it is now ready to
manufacture ton -
scale quantities of spider silk threads and has inked a deal with a fashion expert to turn out a new line of clothing beginning
next year.
As researchers in these and other related fields continue to solve increasingly difficult scientific problems, they need to prepare for the
next step: moving their treatment out of the research lab and into a larger -
scale manufacturing environment.
«The
next step is to
manufacture on a large
scale so we can provide these all over the country and all over the world,» said Dr. Anthony Atala, the director of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine.
The reason is, I think, as soon as a component hits large -
scale manufacturing to become cheaper,
next generation, better and faster component is available at the same.
The potential for breakthroughs in solar PV technology, such as
next - generation thin film materials, reduced capital intensity of
manufacturing capacity as well as continued improvements in the
scale and capacity factor of wind technology means the levelized cost of energy could continue to fall.
Many clean tech wonks have never heard of them, but Alevo plans to be
manufacturing grid -
scale energy storage on a huge
scale within the
next few years.