Gerard Barron

Production, I mentioned 2027, we've already got our first boat, so that's good.

And I think it's probably a four year window to put processing and refining infrastructure on the ground here in the United States.

I hope sooner than that.

It does, yeah.

It does, unfortunately.

But already this morning I'd been on the phone with all Cs, you know, we're mapping out, you know, how do they build more scale?

And I held a strategy day in New York.

on August four and we had the owner of all seas, Edward Harrimer there.

And, and, um, you know, we asked the question, like, what's the appetite?

Do you want to have a fleet of these boats out there?

And he's like, yes, we want a fleet of these boats.

And that's what we want as well.

Yeah.

And, you know, you get the first one done, you know, and the strategy we've adopted at the metals company is, um,

We don't want to be the boat owner.

There are people who are really good at owning boats, and they make a business out of it.

Whereas what I want to be is focused on the permitting, owning the resource, letting contracts out to companies who can come and collect our nodules for us in return for long-term contracts, and owning part of the processing onshore.

And then very much in the marketing of those materials into the marketplace.

Because I'm absolutely certain that when people see the lower environmental and human benefits of ocean metals, they're going to want to buy products that are made with these metals.

And remember that great campaign, Intel Inside, that they used to run?