Did development at Labofex then come to a halt, given that you never succeeded in finding a sponsor?
AC – After six or seven years of this madness, we knew that there was simply no way we could proceed in this manner. The pressure was enormous, we did not succeed in finding financing for our world patenting effort, despite glowing exams in Munich. One potential corporate sponsor even went as far as telling us ‘they’ would still be around when our patents expire. They were in no hurry. Our failure at obtaining comprehensive protection opened the doors for others, particularly in Russia and Hungary, to go ahead and carry on with their own development of the PAGD technology. Well, with the laboratory facilities we have we couldn’t push the technology much further. However, we still managed to develop new reactor designs, one of which completely controlled the problem of metal deposition – one of the engineering targets of our proposed R&D program. Reactor design has also reached the 1 kW average output. We had to do all this by ourselves – the financing, the building of the reactors, the
