Aeronaut wrote: Very well said, Brian.

I still haven’t topped and tailed the copy, so it’s a good time to inject scarcity, urgency, insider knowledge type excitement. Above all else, it has to be a very good read to go viral. Maybe I’ll tell the story like a Western, where the hero, in hot pursuit, has to switch horses to overtake the quarry and save the day. The longer it takes to switch horses, the greater the risk…

Eric, precisely how much of the system is covered by a manufacturing license? Senator Stabenow (D-Mi) mentioned that a wind turbine has 8,000 parts, so I made a list including foils, capacitor plates, cables, fasteners, etc. that I could put on page 3 if only the vacuum chamber and its contents are protected by licensing. What I’d like to be able to present is the thriving aftermarket potential similar to the auto and computer parts aftermarkets.

The GM plant I’ve been eyeballing was on the news last night. It’s 2 million square feet, double my rough guess. If we make foils the hard way, this stamping plant was made to order. And We The People now officially own most of it.

10s of millions of cars/year far exceeds the possible 10s or 100s of thousands of FF generators a year. E.g.: even one petawatt capacity/year would be 200,000 generators. Add another factor of 10 for the valuation, and you’re talking about an economic equivalent to 2,000,000 cars worldwide, still off by a factor of 10 or so (actually 30; the 2008 sales were around 60 million).

BTW, as far as aftermarket, licensed or unlicensed components, patented or unpatented, makes no difference to the aftermarket. As long as it’s part of the supplier/subcontractor/enhancement chain, it’s all spin-off aftermarket. Anyhow, the economic side-effects of cheap energy will dwarf any direct manufacturing impact, since energy costs impact every aspect of every economy, from the most primitive to most advanced.