The 1 MW plant has been long tested, as you say, and during the Doral test Rossi was able to refine his technology by overcoming some of the problems that have been arose in the plant. The fruit of all of this is QuarkX, a better product than the others made before. Do not bet everything on that would be absurd.
SSC,
After this, it would be better if you reply on the Rossi thread. Let AF have this, his own dedicated thread. He deserves it for his efforts.
As to your comment: The 1MW is already a refined product. Rossi has spent 10 years perfecting the individual Ecat units, and with the help of Fabiani, cobbled enough of them together with a control system able to operate 1 year, while putting out 1MW thermal, with very few problems. Even Penon...a Nuclear Engineer, and ERV, agrees...it is perfect. So it is ready for market "as is". In fact, Doral was hawked to IH, by Rossi, as a final beta test so to speak. The final report proves it passed with flying colors.
Plus, we have testimony from Rossi himself, that customers have been buying the 1MW LT's since Jan 2012. 13 to be exact. So it baffles me, how all of a sudden, after the settlement, and Rossi is free from any constraints, the 1MW is now "obsolete", and he is on to smaller (20W), and better (still in R/D) things, with this QX?