Cellulosic ethanol is still made in small quantities and a number of once-ambitious startups have gone out of business.
But therein lies the problem: however much you like sweet wine, it can really only be drunk in small quantities.
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Car insurance could be sold by the mile at fuel stations, so that low-mileage drivers could buy it in small quantities.
The first ones were produced in small quantities in Hungary in 1977.
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That year a German chemistry journal published a paper which, without naming Symyx, clobbered its approach, stating that tests done in small quantities could not be reproduced in larger batches.
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Some leading scientists believe that Wada should change the rules and bring in a minimum threshold as it has for the steroid nandrolone, which is found in small quantities in some vitamin supplements.
Noni juice, he claims, activates xeronine--but in such small quantities, he concedes, that it's virtually undetectable.
Many of those cars do have poor emissions and fuel efficiency ratings but are produced in such small quantities and are driven so infrequently that they don't significantly contribute to air-pollution problems.
The Navy, which aims to get half of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, has been buying biofuels in small but expensive quantities, as in four times the cost of conventional fuels.
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Then, in 1999, Achim Wixforth, a physicist at the University of Augsburg, in Germany, discovered that when small quantities of liquid were placed in their path, they caused it to stir.
The top wines of Bordeaux or Burgundy, by contrast, are usually produced in tiny quantities by small producers.
Serum shifted from making measles vaccines in small flasks to producing them in larger, more cost-efficient quantities in cell factories.
The idea of analysing or synthesising small quantities of chemicals in a chip-sized apparatus is not new, but labs on chips have conventionally relied on systems of tiny pipes etched into them to move the chemicals around.
Last week France announced that individuals would also be able to buy small quantities of euro coins in the two weeks before the starting date.
When the central bank does sell dollars, it is to a small group of buyers and in smaller quantities than seen in the past, traders said.
So the use of the very small quantities of mercury found in Thimerosal provided a very big benefit when they had been used (other biocides are in use now).
The quantities of each material in each cell are so small that I find it difficult (but not impossible) to believe that it would be economic.
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After Solazyme began supplying the military with small quantities of algae biofuels for evaluation, the DOD awarded the company its first significant contract in 2010.
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In each case we seem to prize large quantities of failed, inadequate or poor work as a route to a small number of successes.
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