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To: lawrence smith who wrote (1071)	10/13/1998 4:01:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50163

Lawrence, How many pairs of goggles can you make with a gallon of the "goog". Even if these are very big goggles, they have an area of 50 cm square, and even if the layer is very thick, like 1/10 of a mm, you end up with less then 10,000 such goggles. your $100 k per gallon will cause the cost of the gook in the goggle to be more then $10 bucks, which will add at retail about $40 bucks. Good luck selling those. If that is their pricing, they'd better find some very unique markets for them. Take a simple pane windows, what premium can you charge for a square foot (about 1000 sq cm, or at $100,000 per gallon and 1/10 of a mm, 10 cc per square foot of "goop", or $2500 in additional costs per square foot)? Either your number of $100 K per gallon of goop is faulty, or there is simply no mass market for the goop. Now you will tell me that you are going to use just 1 micron layer thickness (still a premium of $25/sq foot in cost or four times as much at retail), fine, have you ever tried to maintain 1 micron parallelism between two plates a square foot large? Come down to reality and start checking those ridiculous numbers you are being "dished out". Without parallelism, your electric field varies all over the place and it looks "ugly" where it is in "overdrive". Zeev