OK, so anyway, trying to wrestle with the constant moving of conversations from their original, exactly targeted “topic”, to “slow chat III” or whatever whim is in force on any given day. The continuity of this conversation has been ruined by this arbitrary and unnecessary restructuring, but it goes to the general incompetence seen across the entire field of AWE.
My point is this. My comment, above, about renderings and charging a phone was meant as a short way of saying the following:
We’ve watched as one startup after another raises lots of money on the basis of renderings, only to create the next failure, ostensibly running (very rarely) out of a 20-foot half-shipping container. Why? Why do they need millions of dollars and why does it always have to be the same 20-foot half shipping container?
Here’s one example of a simple fact from regular wind energy that the AWE wannabes don’t seem to grasp: If a large version of your idea will work, usually a small version of your idea will work too. So if you have to start with a certain size, a smaller size is easier, cheaper, and quicker to build. It’s called “proof of concept”. The idea is you learn at a smaller, quicker, cheaper size, and only build larger, more expensive versions after you get a smaller one working well first. As i said, this is stuff an 8-year-old could easily grasp.
So I think someone said this particular company or group has been around for several years, and counting. And in all that time they have renderings, and that’s all. So if they have the expertise to do such a project, why don’t they demonstrate it at a size that is easy and quick to build, and when they can show how well it runs, and maybe if it is supposed to be automated, show that automated operation to investors, THEN think about building a bigger one?
But no, they already KNOW they are geniuses - of COURSE their idea will work great on the first try. What they need is YOUR MONEY! Only THEN can they build one, and they will bypass the small, proof of concept stage, because as Professor Crackpot always says: “We need to build it big, tho people will take uth theriouthly!”
Of course we know all the AWE people really ARE geniuses, with GREAT depth of understanding, design and fabrication skills, so their GREAT and indeed already PERFECT ideas WILL definitely work on the first try, so there is no point in working their way up a learning curve starting with a small size.
Nope, they need your millions of dollars to build one that can “power 50 homes” or whatever fantasy number they dream up, and the predictable (to some) result is, they end up with nothing, because as it turns out, they had never thought the whole thing through in the first place, but their renderings sold the idea to some gullible investors, and they all end up with one more predictable (again, to some) unworkable AWE failure.
And like the La Brea Tar Pits, no matter how many animals before them are mired in the sticky muck of failure, after being tempted by the apparent simplicity of an “easy kill”, it turns out that this next inexperienced-yet-overconfident newbie too, becomes stuck in the muck, with their corpse standing as one more stark reminder of the dangerous reality of the Tar Pits, which is, of course, ignored by the next overconfident wind newbie, and as the saying goes “lather, rinse, repeat”…
I think wannabe AWE must be up to what, maybe 100 skeletons at this point?