Reply To: T-shirt designers unite and take over

[Brian H]

Aeronaut wrote: All I’m after right now is lining up the early adopters who will get the snowball rolling downhill so there is an aftermarket and huge public interest.

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. I’m also suggesting that a license and plant could cost less than 50M$ for very well-qualified licensees. That may be priced too low for credibility.

Yes, I don’t have a grip at all on the possible costs of a manufacturing plant. One would have to have a fairly detailed grip on the specific components. Maybe Eric’s original breakdown of cost-of-production would provide guidance, if available. There are, of course, plants and PLANTS! One capable of assembling 2-10 generators a week would be far different from one able to produce 100-500/week, obviously. I wouldn’t expect the larger ones to get put together until some experience and refinements had been accumulated; the risk of being undercut by rapid advances in assembly or design would be too great. The first manufacturers will need to be flexible and aggressively innovative, I think.

I also wonder how fast the generator itself will evolve; Mk I, Mk II, … Mk XX, etc. !