RE: Pilot plant opening3 Jun 2026 11:05
Operationally, i think everything is going very well. Future finance looks promising. I do urge people to read the terms of the existing initial facility particularly the convertibility.
Had some interesting deliberations about plant siting, pros and cons
Met some other pis, but one seemed eager to avoid me.
Had a brief chat with Stefan, but a far longer chat with his son Jakob
Spent some time with Mark Austin and Lars Brunner
So something unexpected that I learnt is that the full scale plant will comprise a series of the existing sized plant.
At present feedstock is manually being re-fed through the process. Theres no patents protecting the kit. So even if china places barriers on exporting the kit, it can be manufactured in EU anyway.
Furthermore a series of machines is more resililient and scaleable than a single big machine.