Adam said:
If it was really that good some major corporation would of bought it from him.
Things at the beginning are always more expensive than they would be if they were mass produced. This also means that it will take more time to become a finished and polished product that they can pass off to the consumers.
The planning, designing, and production phase takes the most time and is the most expensive. Once all of that is done and they are able to mass produce things they become cheap and speed right along.
This is similar to the vision of laser weapons in the Navy which they now say is only 2 years away from being integrated onto Navy ships:
"The military has spent hundreds of millions on the development of the various systems, but once they're installed, the government predicts that they would be relatively cheap to operate, considering they're not using conventional munitions. The Congressional report estimates that it will cost the Navy the equivalent of less than a dollar per shot to use the laser weapons versus, say, short-range air-defense interceptor missiles that generally cost around $800,000 to $1.4 million each."
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