As a fella that does industrial procurement for a living, I feel that even if this 250KW test (which is a pretty small generator) does very well and performs well, if Cummins tried to offer this style motor as part of any package they were quoting to me, I would require several examples of this technology running 5-10 years in a a similar environment before I'd even read through the proposal. Rotary Engines were all the rage until they ran them for 5 years. Cummins isnt ignorant to this. This is a decade long process to generate solid consistent sales if it is indeed successful.
I see the greatest thing since pockets two or three times a week. Really revolutionary stuff on all sorts of different machinery and products, but selling that stuff is a completely different ballgame. Someone has to put their profits on the line to test your product and in industries like utilities/oil/paper you are talking 10's of thousands of dollars an hour in profit that will be lost if your new product doesn't function as expected. If Cummins were to come out a month from now and say that the retrofit was a huge success and they loved the product, Cummins wouldn't be able to sell those engines in any serious quantity for quite some time.
I say all that only reading into this company over the past few days. I'm sure there is a lot of information that I do not know about and that's fine. Just sharing my thoughts on the little I know and basically just saying that it looks fruitful, but this is an long-term investment for sure.
