Potential Market for Ceto 5?, page-3

I agree. I don't think CETO 5 will ever be deployed, it is just too hard. The requirement for all of the heavy lifting gear aligned with near perfect weather conditions just to deploy a single unit makes it non commercial I suspect. All the time and cost uncertainty. Solar/Wind + storage can be deployed at significantly lower cost and far more predictably. You can then use the renewable power to drive a desalination setup I suspect and still be cheaper per unit of water. This is just my estimation, I don't have any models to back it up. The CETO 5 cost model hasn't been released excluding the R&D/measurement components (ie what a commercial product deployment might cost), so we can only guess, but if it was viable as you say they would be marketing it.

The EMC microgrid move was essential for CWE. All of their component technologies are decreasing in cost rapidly (with no R&D expenditure) while CWE is striving for its first commercially viable product. I really hope CETO 6 delivers. CWE should aim to purchase the rest of EMC with some of the pile of cash it has, as EMC earns revenue already and has massive growth potential.