Hey Myrka, good to hear from you and know you are still around. Imo I think QSEP very much want to not induce any hype or promotion anymore, they want the company's actions and progress to speak for itself. That's a positive imo. Tao has been known to say things (due to his profound knowledge of the technology) that are more bullish on the technology or say more than the company would in a similar circumstance. So, it would not surprise me that QSEP itself has asked Tao not to mention the company by name without their permission. AOT is obviously allowed. The difference imo is Tao or Temple is not a public company nor regulated by the markets, so he is not subject to the same restrictions regarding public disclosure. So, in essence he can or could say a lot more than the company might want to disclose at any given time about material info about QSEP's activities.
I think this is another one of those instances, where the public has now found out about something significant about the company without the company itself disclosing it. The Saudi's testing oil with QSEP is not an insignificant development for shareholders, but not significant for the science community. Yet shareholders are not hearing about this from the company, but found out about it in a research paper. Why is that? One would think if QSEP was trying to raise awareness or investment that they would have said something about this and done a PR or at the very least include it in a shareholder update or put it in the Q (it's not very material so they would not be required to put it in the Q). Yet they have not. Why is that? Surely they want shareholders to know? Imo QSEP are being a lot more conservative than they could be, which is nothing but good for shareholders. If something material is developing, we will hear about it. But there is certainly more going on at QSEP than they tell us. That's a good thing, as shareholders we want them making progress even if we don't hear about it right away. That's the takeaway from this new bit of info about Saudi Aramco. I guess this speaks to Alkaline's point. Anyway, that's my take.
