demonstration plant
2 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 16, 2025 by Shayle Kann · across every show →
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Jan 16, 2025 negative
Kann: Demo offtake commitments harm technology optimization and learning
“The second you have a customer who's expecting the product, your incentives are misaligned a little bit because what you really need from an existential company perspective from the demo is to prove the technology and optimize it. What the customer needs is to…”
Jan 16, 2025 negative
Fernandez: Demonstration plants are unprofitable R&D exercises, not profit centers
“Many times though, people think they're going to make money off the demo, right? When, in that, in our experience, we found that's not the case. The case is that most, in most cases, the demo is a very large R&D exercise. So money losing, unprofitable R&D exer…”