Yes, I hope very much that the Australian fellows have succeeded.  I don't much care who does it, so long as it gets done.

Usually it is very difficult for two different inventive groups to get together.  It's a matter of all those signed agreements, backers, etc.  In our own case, we are about a year away from our first commercial-sized unit.  We have taken most of our research overseas, to be performed by the National Materials Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of a friendly foreign country.  It was a pleasure to find scientists who already use higher symmetry electrodynamics instead of electrical engineering and the standard U(1) stuff, which is very seriously flawed.  Indeed, in that country they started teaching the higher symmetry electrodynamics in their universities more than a dozen years ago.

 Anyway, nice hearing from you, and I really hope those fellows have succeeded.

 Best wishes,

Tom Bearden

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