i've been saying no one can compete with the concrete industry for the ability to pay the highest price for a high volume of graphene (much more than our company could produce per year).. in examples seen....
@ $200 a ton for concrete. for one ton, the cost of concrete in a project will be $200.
strengthened concrete from GO, adds $30 to get $230 a ton. at 20% less concrete needed.. that gets us to $184 for the project. increase price to $190 for $6 increased profit to concrete company. now it's $190 for the project, but it's still less that the cost of regular concrete. customers who will want strengthened concrete? 100%, all of them. and that will continue to hold true as long as the cost of the project remains below the cost for use of regular concrete.
but possibly the same principle can be applied to the battery companies. what if one gram of graphite can be replaced with one milligram of graphene? and what if one milligram of graphene performs even better than one gram of graphite? in that scenario, battery companies could afford to pay a thousand times as much for graphene as they do for graphite, especially considering the increasing need and market for high-efficiency batteries.
for batteries, i have no idea what the actual numbers are, but if graphene in batteries works in principle as well as it does in concrete, then battery companies, in theory, could compete with the price for our graphene. as always.. it goes to the highest bidder.
wouldn't it be a shame to see two different industries seriously compete and try to outbid each other for our graphene? poor guys.
