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ricinro wrote:

Phil brewer and Holt are Cedar park officials so would they be touring outside cedar park?
I don't recall any other public facilites with EEStor's name attached. Seems to strongly suggest the "facility" is the one on Discovery BLVD.

Of course it is. That's where EEStor has upgraded the ventilation and electrical systems, for their pilot production line. If the production line was elsewhere, there would be no reason to upgrade the ventilation system for their Discovery Business Park office space. And if the production line isn't there, then Dr. Golla lied *directly* to me when I spoke to him on the phone.

The idea that the current ("pilot") production line is anywhere *other* than behind EEStor's office which is (or was) in #107 & #108 is not credible.

Cobraphx wrote:

There are lots of possibilities. But the simplest is that they need more room for the pilot production line, and an EESU assembly area (semi-manual and later robotic). As someone else pointed out, they will have lots of visitors from any number of companies wanting to visit after reveal. It makes sense to completely separate the production floor from the office space, a separate but attached unit right next door will do this nicely. Less chance of someone getting 'lost' on the way to the bathroom that way.

I do understand the "want" of a secret, much larger, mass production EEStor facility being built somewhere else. The sooner a full volume EESU production line exists, the sooner I can have one in my _____. But I doubt that can happen without a LOT more money. And as DW said, that money will come when you deliver an EESU. And as an engineer, DW wants the production line to be right. He wants to characterize all the knobs, when to turn them, and what effect they have when turned.

Questions like: If you change the composition of the CMBT can you get a wider operating temperature range? What is the ED trade-off if you do this? If you set the printers to print 2 micron electrodes and 15 micron dielectric layers, how do the resulting components behave? What happens when you pole those same devices with 5000V instead of 4000V? How long do you need to bake each layer of a half micron thick dielectric for the best results? How about 2 micron? If you attach component arrays to the bus bars with .5g of silver adhesive instead of .3g does it perform better or fail sooner? How does EESU behave if you increase the silver content in the adhesive by 15%, or decrease it by 10%? These questions are easily explored on a modest production line in a facility co-located with the development engineers (DW,CN,??). When DW knows the answers to these and many other questions he will be ready to build production lines 2 thru XXX.

Intel works this way, they have TD (Technology Development) facilities that develop pilot production lines for new technologies. Once the equipment, process and resulting device is mature in the TD facility it is replicated across several factories.

That all makes perfect sense to me, Cobraphx. I agree with you on this.