Jeez. Look at APNT. Eventually nobody gives a rip, no matter what kind of deal you cut. They give up on you years ago.
Is the 18 to 24 months build in the country club, golf time, and presentations while staying at the Seasons with the wifey?
Pray for an acquisition, then the old farts can get back to some serious golf and call it good. Not a patient person, not buried at some earlier price when this was the latest greatest thing, believe it is in fact an incredible (but unpatented) material that could save the world as we know it. Give it six months.