Hi opel24v,
I understand that this last stage of commissioning requires the test run to sit for four months in its "tub"; I assume regular sampling is made to ensure consistency. Evidently there are various challenges in moving from the lab bench to manufacturing at scale, where some tweaking is required. So moving to scale is part of the continuing R & D.
One important aspect I have been learning, is that the move from the test tube demonstration (I still remember Joe Maeji's holding up one and showing me, quite some years ago on my first visit to the labs), to full-scale commercialisation, is long and arduous, with a lot of mistakes and learning along the way. I think as lay people, we look at a news item such as sending off a small explorer (only about car-sized) to see exactly how much damage was inflicted to that poor little innocent asteroid called Dimorphos going about its business orbiting the equally innocent Didymos about 11 million kilometres away, when two years ago we insignificant humans smacked a rocket into it to see whether its orbit could be shifted - the experiment worked - and it is just a minor news item. So the spacecraft Hera is on its way to have a look, in time for Xmas 2026 (C.E. Earth time).
It is hard for me to imagine the huge amount of work that has taken us to this point in space exploration. And it has taken two generations of my AnteoTech beneficiaries (how I wish!), to reach this stage of space exploration, so taken for granted these days, even as we step aboard to fly to London non-stop in what to my father flying a little canvas and string bi-plane around Ceduna in around 1930, would think unimaginable.
So years ago at an AGM, I asked a Board member why it was taking so long for the market to understand what we had. She replied that she did not understand either. I have been as impatient and naive as many of us.
Another question it's worth commenting about, is why don't the EVs jump at the chance to embrace our little company? Yesterday I was having a chat with another shareholder, who said: "if you're an EV company, and you have been planning that replacement batteries will be required after 10 years, so feeding revenues in 10 years, how delighted will you be to find that should you adopt an AnteoTech solution, those batteries will last 16 years, so that you won't be seeing replacement revenues for 16 rather than 10 years hence?" It will upset your calculations about expected earnings. Not so simple, just to adopt the best and brightest. Remember planned obsolescence?
It will be competition and cost benefit that will provide our opportunities, not excellence on its own.
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I always enjoy reading your very considered replies
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