And yet, none of those issues stopped him from making exactly the same "6 to 18 months" claims we're currently seeing, or from signing contracts to deliver the claimed devices.
And oh, look, now we have a whole new batch of excuses to use when the SunCell fails to deliver as well.
Science is about proposing a hypothesis, determining a test or prediction that will possibly falsify the hypothesis, and then conducting some sort of experiment to determine if the test or prediction pans out.
So:
Hypothesis: Mills and BLP are scammers, currently working the latest in a long line of scams.
Prediction 1: The current version of the scam will, as usual, not produce a working commercial product within 18 months.
Prediction 2: The current version of the scam will, as usual,
never produce a working commercial product.
Prediction 3: The excuses for the failures predicted in 1 and 2 will be based on "issues concerned with controlling the reaction via hydrogen, oxide, silver, and ignition parameters. And of course there are engineering and materials issues with the high heat".
Prediction 4: Despite all of the above predictions coming true, the current supporters of Mills and BLP will find some excuse to continue supporting him.
So that's my theory, the theory that is mine. It's a bit of a sucker bet though, as it's really noting more than "predicting the past", in that
this is exactly what has happened several times before, but what are you gonna do? Scammers gotta scam.