[Liberty1970]

I agree with others that this is both (1) understandable as an effort (probably futile in the long run) to protect his trade secrets) and (2) also ticks up the 'baloney-meter' a bit. OTOH, he says it will only delay the 'non-industrial' application of his technology, so he's not letting his promise dates slip for the primary 1 MW demonstration which is key if the E-cat is for real.

On another site I saw that he has pinned down the 1 MW startup date to the last week in October. So it sounds like they have a pretty solid schedule in place (wish I could be that confident about project schedules in my own line of manufacturing!)

[Wonder Warthog]

"OTOH, he says it will only delay the 'non-industrial' application of his technology, so he's not letting his promise dates slip for the primary 1 MW demonstration which is key if the E-cat is for real."

Indeed. This really appears to effect nothing except "home generation" units.

"On another site I saw that he has pinned down the 1 MW startup date to the last week in October. So it sounds like they have a pretty solid schedule in place (wish I could be that confident about project schedules in my own line of manufacturing!)"

You 'n me both, friend. It is a RARE project that doesn't suffer some kind of schedule slippage.