Скачать или смотреть GEVO FAQ: Why does it take so long to build a plant?

Pat Gruber:
"We're building a world-scale plant. It's enormous, right? And so, $800 million plus project, this is not something you do overnight. If I was building the 160th of, say, an ethanol plant, it would still take two years, even if I had done it 160 times before. And maybe, I could shave a couple of months off. The fact is it takes about two years. And so, yeah, we can accelerate things, but you know what you need first? You need the engineering done. You can't build anything unless the engineering is done right. You get that done right, it makes everything go faster. But I can tell you, is that when you go to build your second one, if you've done the first one right and got it right, the second one, third one, they go faster. But the fact is you got to do the engineering first, pin it down, and then go build the thing."