In regards to firestop I asked Mike during one of the webinars by when we can expect the market entry. He told me that they are working on the integration of puregraph into materials and so those materials are becoming protected. He gave me the impression that Firestop ist dead. But maybe he was not allowed to speak about it because of the NDA with TPR2. If we don't hear anything about it by this year I think its dead...
To make products to last longer is the complete opposite of what we have seen the past decades. In principle they wanted their products to break after a specific timeframe to be able to sell more. But in regards to the green push this behaviour might change or I expect that this happens. They will create a world where you don't buy and own things they want to make everything as a service. They give you something and you have to rent it, Here it makes more than sense that those products lasts longer... E.g. Elon said several times that in future Teslas will become much much more expansive and regular people won't be able to buy one - they will rent them...
I am not sure if this is to our benefit, sounds to me like a reintroduction of a feudal system. The fewest own everything and the ordinary people have nothing, need to be "nice people" to be allowed to use specific services.
