RE:RE:Chewing through it You should ask yourself - why did they bother to announce a meager $540,000 order?
This is all about competitive displacement - ""The genesis of this order traces back to a customer inquiry for a replacement of a single failed economizer made by another manufacturer. Upon reviewing the value-added design of BEI's HeatSponge COLOSSUS-model economizers, which translates to longer service life, shorter downtime, and lower maintenance costs, the customer chose to replace seven more economizers with BEI's HeatSponge economizers."
Maybe Thermal Energy has built a better, or better than most , "mousetrap" that has positive economics going for it?
Big deals come with potential problems in scaling up production. I'd rather own shares in a company with many customers then just a few customers. JMO