I could be arguing in my spare time. I could be on holidays. Who...

I could be arguing in my spare time.

I could be on holidays. Who cares and why would it matter?

and the post hoc fallacy needs temporal connection, there was none. Keeping simple, there was no order of events. Probably you have been using it incorrectly for years. Perish the thought.

I'll have a stab at this one:

"Moreover I note that you wouldn't respond to the rest of my statement regarding what the phd's/profs would be aware of, you know like the folks at Swinburne involved in the BEST battery."

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I know quaint ideas. I realise you wanted focus on R&D they would/would not know about.

I am not making a cheap shot at Uni profs, but the reality is the road to commercialisation is littered with good ideas. Why?

Have a look at what Flextronics does. I know an example of fliud-flow batteries. Flextronics was stumped on how to commercialise the prototype jury-rigged device.

Took them a couple of months to figure out it was essentially a washing machine Ah ha!

Thats why. So if you don't have some commercialisation perspective your brilliant lab device or your whole R&D effort can end up as road kill.

My pet peeve for years that because Australia doesn't have much advanced technology manufacture there is no backwards/forwards flow of knowledge. The root cause is the bricks and mortar path to prosperity mindset. Not helping is management/directors consisting of people who manage balance sheets that must meet the house banks needs.

This is why I keep harping on about FGR trying to link to hightech in unis. Another example is BluGlass ASX:BLU. Ten years in MacQ Uni research before floating, and at least ten years floudering around since. Two years ago announced a commercial scale device only to discover their R&D quality didn't come close to the quality in commercial production already. Hidden away in a lab you never really know what the goal posts are unless you have those links between those who think they know and those who can do.

FGR is a miner, not a can do technology supplier, talking to researchers who don't know the commercial issues in the real world now. For example Canada Carbon is making 99.99% pure material.

The only way to illustrate is by analogy, being in the pack does not mean you are doing ok, you could be a lap or two behind because no-one is showing your their score card (to mix in golf with running).

All a bit off-topic. But back to Flinders/Adelaide/SUT where is the equivalent to Flextronice between them and FGR. Seriously, a Uni is going to scale up to commercial machines and supply thousands without that entity who does it for a living? Or will they flick pass their so called commercialisation on as did MacQ in BLU? Thats how dumb it looks to me.