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I, too, can't see from the CSIRO article how costs will crash. It looks like they just discovered a wet spinning process and patented it. Maybe the OP's articl
by NamTaf 10y ago
I, too, can't see from the CSIRO article how costs will crash. It looks like they just discovered a wet spinning process and patented it.
Maybe the OP's article theorises why this may be the case, but I can't load it. Is it just that it's no longer purely a trade secret among facilities?
- neltnerb 10y agoMaybe they mean that, in Australia, it will crash since they won't have to pay import costs anymore?
- NamTaf 10y agoYou could be right. My completely uneducated guesses would be, in order of likelihood: - an open patent rather than trade secret means that many manufactuers can make it with the comparitively lower barrier to entry of a patent licence rather than inventing a process internally - what you said - Their process is somehow revolutionary (pun not intended) and makes it cheaper to manufacture I'd be interested if anyone knows more!