Value pricing works when the competition is sluggish. In this development, competition will be fierce and swift.
Besides, initial units will end up closer to $1000 than $500 due to mandated safety features and the governments where they are sold will slap a tax on the cartridges equal to the lost tax on BTUs they can produce as they replace the nat gas, coal, or electric taxes the consumer was previously paying. Taxes included, the cartridges will cost $200 instead of $10. Remember, carbon taxes aren’t really about pollution, they are about diverting money from wealthy nations to poor nations.