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Post by mouse on Feb 22, 2021 9:22:19 GMT -5
seems there are deposits of lithium in Cornwall..... and a very powerful battery has been made... exactly what for who knows but ssome are very excited about it......it seems it will be a big seller....
little macaroni has scored an own goal... in preventing British shimps/cocles/mussels being land ded in the eu... he is also actually doing considerable damage to the continents fishing industry..............and word is retaliation will be a block on mineral waters and one or two things comming in from the eu....
mean while troubles heap upon the shoulders of the eu.. wich is always very good to hear about.. with every one breaking ranks over jabs of vaccne and certain countries wanting an end to no borders.. not just because of the virus.. but because they dont care for thse entering their countries at will
and spring is on its way... its not wonderful but we do have sunshine and a few things growing in the garden... primulas about to flower.. and crocus and daffs getting ready to flower... the snowdrops have been flowering for over a week .....
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Post by fretslider on Feb 23, 2021 6:20:49 GMT -5
seems there are deposits of lithium in Cornwall..... and a very powerful battery has been made... exactly what for who knows but ssome are very excited about it......it seems it will be a big seller.... little macaroni has scored an own goal... in preventing British shimps/cocles/mussels being land ded in the eu... he is also actually doing considerable damage to the continents fishing industry..............and word is retaliation will be a block on mineral waters and one or two things comming in from the eu.... mean while troubles heap upon the shoulders of the eu.. wich is always very good to hear about.. with every one breaking ranks over jabs of vaccne and certain countries wanting an end to no borders.. not just because of the virus.. but because they dont care for thse entering their countries at will and spring is on its way... its not wonderful but we do have sunshine and a few things growing in the garden... primulas about to flower.. and crocus and daffs getting ready to flower... the snowdrops have been flowering for over a week ..... For unbiased UK information... notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/Batteries will not work and they know this. There seems to have been a certain amount of interest in adding battery storage systems to wind and solar farms recently. Needless to say, the owners are not attempting to cure the problem of intermittency. Instead there appear to be two main reasons:
1) Storage systems are eligible for subsidy under the Capacity Market and also the National Grid’s Supplemental Balancing Reserve, both designed to buy in standby capacity.
2) Power produced during times of surplus, say on windy or sunny days, would tend to have a lower economic value. By using it to recharge batteries, the stored power could be sold at a higher price at times of shortage or high demand.
Musk’s Australian battery stores 129 MWh, so we would need 3140 of them. At an estimated £125 million each, we would be looking at a cost of £392 bn, and they would all likely need replacing every ten years.
And all this just to back up wind farms that only supplies about 15% of the UK’s electricity.
To put the figures into perspective, Hywind Scotland, used as an example above, has installed wind turbine capacity of 30 MW, probably giving an average of about 12 MW.
Instead of the 1.3 MWh battery it is installing, Hywind would need 665 of them, to be able to ensure continuous average output.
If all wind farms were legally obliged to install three days of storage, there would not be many left!
This exercise shows above all why the dream of running the country on 100% renewable energy is just that, an impossible dream.notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/05/29/can-batteries-solve-the-intermittency-problem/And just to rub it in.... Fast-charging can damage electric car batteries in just 25 cycles
...after 40 charges the batteries only had 60% of their storage capacity.notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/11/26/fast-charging-can-damage-electric-car-batteries-in-just-25-cycles/Public Chargers Will Increase Driving Costsnotalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/02/22/public-chargers-will-increase-driving-costs/A journey which costs me 5p per mile (petrol) will cost an electric car owner 35p per mile. Assuming the battery is in decent shape. |
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Post by toby1 on Feb 23, 2021 9:29:24 GMT -5
""seems there are deposits of lithium in Cornwall."
This would not surprise me because Cornwall used to be the principle source of Tin in Western Europe and without Cornwalls tin, the Bronze age could not have taken place.
It is a rule of Mineral supply that if you find a prticular ore then there will be partner ores in the vicinity, an example is, where you find Silver ore then you will also find Lead ore.
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Post by toby1 on Feb 23, 2021 12:49:41 GMT -5
Regarding Wind Turbines, I saw these being manufactured during my visits to Engineering companies, I visited the firm in Germany that produces the gearboxes and they were working flat out, the boss had top model BMW and it was fitted with ,'Stingers ', they are anti-radar control devices that allow you to speed and not get caught.
There's a lot of steel in the windmills and making steel means pollution, you need coal to make Coke for the blast furnaces then the Concast then the slabs are rolled, cut, welded, etc then painted. All in all there is a lot of pollution once you have your completed wind turbine.
I was speaking to a guy I met when were were looking at pipes for a Pipeline, he used to go out to check the coatings on Offshore Wind Turbines, they paid him a thousand quid per day and if the waves were more than 3 foot they stayed on shore, he still got paid though !! I asked him ',what did you do', he said ',I went and played Golf'.
The Wind Turbines scam makes sure as many people have their hand in the pot as want to, anybody who seriously thinks that wind turbines are viable needs their head looking at.
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Post by toby1 on Feb 23, 2021 13:13:39 GMT -5
""Yahoo FinanceYahoo Finance
Lordstown Motors CEO: We have pre-sold 100,000 electric pickup trucks
Brian Sozzi
Brian Sozzi·Editor-at-Large
Tue, 23 February 2021, 6:43 pm
It has been a long road for Lordstown Motors founder and CEO Steve Burns to arrive at this point of being ready to produce his electric pickup truck, dubbed the Endurance. The good news is that he arrives at this critical juncture with a large number of orders.
"Our initial foray is into fleets, and we have pre-sold 100,000 of these vehicles to various fleets across America — really a big appetite," Burns told Yahoo Finance Live. "You've got a fleet using a 17-mile per gallon pickup truck for the last 30 years and we come out with one that gets the equivalent of 75 miles per gallon. There is a lot of demand and excitement about it."
Unveiled in June 2020, the Endurance is a fully electric pickup truck that gets about 250 miles of range on a single charge. The truck's major selling point is that it is powered by four electric hub motors, with each wheel having a motor. That will help the Endurance — which starts at about $52,000 — to deliver varying amounts of torque to each wheel. Torque is an important factor in selling pickup trucks as it is a key linchpin in hauling heavy loads.
Burns said production for the Endurance will begin in September. That will make the Endurance the first all electric pickup truck on the market — Ford isn't expected to begin producing its all-electric F150 pickup until 2022. The electric F-150 is seen as the primary competitor to the Endurance out of the gate.""
I belive it when I see it.!!!!!!!
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Post by toby1 on Feb 24, 2021 9:16:48 GMT -5
""In 2017, scientists at Berkeley Lab also devised a method of replacing sulfur with seaweed, which they claim will be able to give the batteries and even longer lifespan. This is because, as Wired reported, seaweed can be used as a binder to keep the active materials together while reacting with the sulfer so that it does not dissolve. “There’s a lot of demand for energy storage, but there’s very little chemistry that can meet the cost target,” said battery scientist Gao Liu.
“Sulfur is a very low-cost material – it’s practically free. And the energy capacity is much higher than that of Lithium-ion. So Lithium-sulfur is one chemistry that can potentially meet the target.”" Sulphur is a commodity that gets traded just like any other substance, the price fluctuates according to demand just like Millet, Soybeans, grain, etc. Where can you get lot's of Sulphur ? I worked on the Desulphurization of the Athabasca Oil Sands a decade ago, the Oil is full of sulphur which is removed at source then heated and pumped into insulated rail cars, when Sulphur is heated it liquidizes so can be pumped just like water, if it cools it solidifies. This means that if the Canadians play their cards right they could be extracting the Lithium from the mines in Canada and then set up Battery Production Plants to supply the whole wide world, they could earn $$$$$$$$Trillions and all have big Palaces to live in with Mansoor Rollers in the drive and Apache Helicopters used to go to the shops. Will Trudeau grasp the nettle, ?? very unlikely because he is a rather timid person, quite unlike his Mother who upon meeting Mick Jagger suggested they both indulge in some horizontal gymnastics, Mick said yes and they were soon hard at it. ""but there’s very little chemistry that can meet the cost target,” said battery scientist Gao Liu."" Here's a quote from the horses mouth as it were, a Battery Scientist saying something like this and it gets printed  It must have slipped past the Climate Change Censors ! |
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Post by toby1 on Feb 24, 2021 10:12:39 GMT -5
Scam alert
Lucid Motors cars
Lucid Motors cars
Lucid Motors, a Silicon Valley company whose luxury electric cars are due to cost as much as $169,000, has not yet sold a single vehicle. Next year, it expects to sell just 20,000 cars, and it does not expect to make a profit until 2024.
But this week, the company announced plans to go public at a $24bn valuation - roughly that of Peugeot. The listing comes through a merger with an already-listed blank cheque company or “SPAC”, the biggest deal of its kind.
Despite the deal’s size, Lucid’s news was met with disappointment. In the weeks since rumours of the Lucid deal had emerged, investors had bid up shares in Churchill Capital IV, the acquisition vehicle merging with Lucid, to astronomical levels, in anticipation of a much higher valuation. Churchill’s shares fell by 39pc on Tuesday in response.
Lucid’s less-than-forecast valuation may have been an early warning sign that a boom in electric car valuations is coming to an end.
On Tuesday, shares in Tesla, the lodestar of the battery-powered movement, fell for the second-straight day, while Nio, a Chinese rival, dropped too.
Both Tesla and Nio actually make and sell cars, but others whose valuations are built largely on expectations fared even worse. Shares in Fisker, an LA-based electric carmaker whose first car is due to go on sale this year, fell 10pc, and Nikola, an Arizona competitor, fell 6pc.
Fisker and Nikola are among those that, like Lucid, used SPACs to go public at valuations of many billions of dollars. Other examples included electric pickup truck maker Lordstown Motors and charging network ChargePoint. Arrival, a British electric van maker, is set to follow in the coming months as is China's Faraday Future.
Arrival bus
Arrival bus
Blank cheque firms exploded in popularity last year as the stock market boomed and interest rates plummeted, with investors looking for places to put their cash. Electric vehicle companies became popular targets as investors clamoured to back the renewable car boom.
SPACs are also useful vehicles for electric carmakers since they make it easier to go public based on expectations about their future than the reality of the present.
However, the boom has led to fears of overexuberance. “This looks very much like the frothiest weeks of the dotcom bubble,” says Rob Arnott of asset manager Research Affiliates. Arnott says that like the excesses of the late 20th century internet mania, many publicly-listed electric carmakers have no revenue, let alone profits.
He adds that the combined value of companies that only make electric vehicles reached $976bn earlier this month, within touching distance of the $1.2 trillion combined valuation of traditional automakers. This is despite fully electric vehicles making up an estimated 3pc of global sales last year.
And while there is no doubt that this will change, it is unclear whether the electric vehicle companies that have secured huge valuations will be the ones carrying the electric revolution.
UK electric cars
UK electric cars
To market observers, this week’s drop looked like a bubble being pricked. Garrett Nelson, an analyst at CFRA Research, says that Lucid’s lower-than-expected valuation could be the catalyst for fears about overpriced electric vehicle stocks. “There's been talk of electric vehicles being in a bubble. But I think those fears have really been heightened after the Lucid valuation. Investors view that as highly disappointing.
“Something investors and analysts are really struggling with is valuations. We know this is a very fast growing market. But Tesla's market capitalisation of roughly $650bn. Is that justified or not?”
Enthusiasm about other electric vehicle makers has been in large part driven by Tesla, whose shares rose almost 700pc last year as traditional automakers struggled. “They’re trying to find the next Tesla,” says Nelson. “But none of them have vehicles on the road yet. Some won’t have revenue for a year or two or three. I think it's a realisation that maybe these valuations aren't justified.”
If the bubble is popping, it still has some way to go. Lucid’s projected market valuation (based on trading in CCIV shares as opposed to the $24bn pro-forma value agreed between the parties) sat at $56bn even after Tuesday’s slide. At $650bn, Tesla still dwarfs any rival. And few doubt that electric vehicles are the future. But the internet was the future in 1999, and the dotcom bubble still had plenty of casualties"""
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Post by fretslider on Feb 25, 2021 7:35:02 GMT -5
Regarding Wind Turbines, I saw these being manufactured during my visits to Engineering companies, I visited the firm in Germany that produces the gearboxes and they were working flat out, the boss had top model BMW and it was fitted with ,'Stingers ', they are anti-radar control devices that allow you to speed and not get caught. There's a lot of steel in the windmills and making steel means pollution, you need coal to make Coke for the blast furnaces then the Concast then the slabs are rolled, cut, welded, etc then painted. All in all there is a lot of pollution once you have your completed wind turbine. I was speaking to a guy I met when were were looking at pipes for a Pipeline, he used to go out to check the coatings on Offshore Wind Turbines, they paid him a thousand quid per day and if the waves were more than 3 foot they stayed on shore, he still got paid though !! I asked him ',what did you do', he said ',I went and played Golf'. The Wind Turbines scam makes sure as many people have their hand in the pot as want to, anybody who seriously thinks that wind turbines are viable needs their head looking at. The silly subsidies thrown at these people would be funny if it wasn't the very poorest paying for them in their energy bills. |
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Post by fretslider on Feb 25, 2021 7:37:32 GMT -5
""Yahoo FinanceYahoo Finance Lordstown Motors CEO: We have pre-sold 100,000 electric pickup trucks Brian Sozzi Brian Sozzi·Editor-at-Large Tue, 23 February 2021, 6:43 pm It has been a long road for Lordstown Motors founder and CEO Steve Burns to arrive at this point of being ready to produce his electric pickup truck, dubbed the Endurance. The good news is that he arrives at this critical juncture with a large number of orders. "Our initial foray is into fleets, and we have pre-sold 100,000 of these vehicles to various fleets across America — really a big appetite," Burns told Yahoo Finance Live. "You've got a fleet using a 17-mile per gallon pickup truck for the last 30 years and we come out with one that gets the equivalent of 75 miles per gallon. There is a lot of demand and excitement about it." Unveiled in June 2020, the Endurance is a fully electric pickup truck that gets about 250 miles of range on a single charge. The truck's major selling point is that it is powered by four electric hub motors, with each wheel having a motor. That will help the Endurance — which starts at about $52,000 — to deliver varying amounts of torque to each wheel. Torque is an important factor in selling pickup trucks as it is a key linchpin in hauling heavy loads. Burns said production for the Endurance will begin in September. That will make the Endurance the first all electric pickup truck on the market — Ford isn't expected to begin producing its all-electric F150 pickup until 2022. The electric F-150 is seen as the primary competitor to the Endurance out of the gate."" I belive it when I see it.!!!!!!! Absolutely hopeless when you have to hang around waiting for it to charge up. |
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Post by fretslider on Feb 25, 2021 7:45:59 GMT -5
My advice is buy Bitcoin The bankers really hate it. |
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Post by toby1 on Feb 25, 2021 12:21:11 GMT -5
How to buy Bitcoin ?
How to sell Bitcoin ??
I never see any Bitcoin brokers giving this info ?
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