lytnup - I agree a buyout is now much further down the road. IF it were planned then just getting machine #1 working at full throttle for a month would have been sufficient. The buyer would then have accelerated all the improvements and had cash for rollout. Since sales have been so small I think we can assume this was never the focus.
EP - you are never that far off the mark and a new technology at this level of development and current market cap could be attractive. I believe few people realised that having noone on the management team who has ever been close to running a public company would cost us so dear. Initally over enthusiasm for sharing info and using the stock as currency but equally now risking ability to raise cash by not sharing key info. The technology work done by JB has been extraordinary but the corporate plan has been weak and the cash crunch (or two) you have pointed out in the past would never have been allowed in a buyout scenario.
I simply believe all anyone has asked for is cost of plastic for one processor to run for one month, together with fuel produced and cost of operation AND for that set of numbers to tie into a quarterly report somehow. If this was shared I wouldn't care which machine was up or down on any particular day and half the debate on this board would go away.
As I have said before I don't believe Q1 will be CFP, I just have my fingers crossed that there is enough cash to get through to a qtr where the results warrant a PIPE @ higher than $0.80c. Otherwise we'll get diluted to obscurity, with 100M shares at end of 2013 a 'pipe'dream at this point.