Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: If the IH plan is to build a high capacity production plant like an auto > plant, you want to make sure that the bugs are all worked out before you > build 1000 units a month . . .
Yes. But you cannot do that with a single unit being tested by one group of people in Florida. This is a radically new technology. It is a far greater leap, than the Prius for example, and the Prius called for thousands of tests within Toyota and by dozens of external agencies, for things like crash testing. You cannot possibly do all that must be done with only group testing for one year. You need thousands of man years by dozens of groups. You must meet the demands of 21st century regulations and the public's demand for assured safety. This is a *nuclear fusion reactor*, for crying out loud! It is producing fusion energy by unknown methods. Any public safety official in any country who allowed such a thing without regulatory clearance would end up in jail or a lunatic asylum. It is unthinkable. This will not be milliwatt scale laboratory experiment done by retired scientists who no one believes. You cannot launch this casually the way Henry Ford launching the Model T in 1908. Things do not work that way anymore. Plus, as I said, with new technology after you iron out the kinks of the first prototype, you have to start all over again. The first version never ships. See the book "The Mythical Man Month" for details. . . . if the plan is to sell these units in China, then regulations and > certifications can go by the boards since the Chinese can not breath too > well now. The Chinese are living in an earlier century. > Chinese automobiles and other commercial products in China meet modern standards. Granted, there are sometimes scandals with things like railroad accidents, but generally speaking, Chinese industrial standards are up to level of Europe, the U.S. and Japan. They are not going to cut corners and allow untested, unproven nuclear reactors to be widely used. And why would they cut corners? That would be a senseless thing to do. It takes little money and only a few years to test a few thousand units. It is no harder than crash testing new models of automobiles. Once the machines go into production, the additional cost per unit from testing adds only a few dollars per unit. It is a trivial matter. Whereas not testing might lead to a disaster. - Jed
