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[swallowsflysouth] 15/9/2019 12:39

DRH3, I do expect my oilie to benefit, i hadn't given a thought to how it would affect pog. 50% drop in Aramco production, 5% drop in global oil production and the nasty potential for further drone attacks on oil installations. The potential for a au spike is there. Monday should be interesting.

[drh3] 14/9/2019 20:30

Wonder if the attack on the oil refinery will make gold spike.....?

[swallowsflysouth] 13/9/2019 19:04

JC, helium balloons a pet hate of my, they look very unattractive in woodlands !
A far better use of helium is in mri scanners

[2tyke] 13/9/2019 14:53

Yes, the spot gold price weakening.
Expected a last hoorah upto late $1500's, but only $1521 reached the other day.
Will see how it progresses early next week but starting tp think it is possibly re-joining the down-trend sooner than expected.
Bullish euphoria red-hot...which fits nicely.

[jc2706] 13/9/2019 14:37

Yes, sorry. It is essentially off topic.

[soulsauce] 13/9/2019 13:30

All well and good but we don't have any battery based assets.
May be the interims will shed more light on what they are looking at or we will just get more annoying hints like in previous results.

[jc2706] 13/9/2019 13:24

I agree with them on grid scale, although the picture will be quite complex as one technology will not completely dominate in my opinion owing to a broad range of operational requirements. Smaller scale lithium batteries are likely to dominate for the foreseeable I believe (see Chinese caveat above!).

[the deacon] 13/9/2019 13:11

There's some good interviews from the likes of Nano One regarding battery futures. They're line of thinking is that large scale industrial and long haul transportation is likely to be filled by VRB's and similar. Solid state lithium batteries are the future for consumer cars, bikes etc. Some good info out there.

[jc2706] 13/9/2019 13:03

What it comes down to is the amount of energy required to produce hydrogen compared with Li-ion batteries. And hydrogen doesn't just have to be better it has to be a lot better to displace what has become the defacto standard everywhere except Japan (caveat - President Xi visited Japan and came back a fan of hydrogen so since China is a command economy they may well have the power to force this through but it will take a great deal of effort from here).

I do not have figures to hand to compare the total energy equation for Li-ion vs Hydrogen (which takes a lot of energy to produce in a usable format). Anyone?

Apologies to the board for going off topic.

But it is quite interesting.

To me anyway.

[plasybryn] 13/9/2019 12:20

Two more photos on twitter from Salinbas

[plasybryn] 13/9/2019 12:11

I've driven the Toyota Hydrogen car which has been on sale for at least 3 years. I don't believe they perceive any safety issues although as you say the tanks have to be strong to contain the pressurised gas. They are using hydrogen for the Orkney ferries which again are proving effective. Have a look at www.riversimple.co.uk.

[plasybryn] 13/9/2019 12:06

What about Graphene? Could this revolutionise battery development? But hydrogen is in such wide supply and can be produced sustainably using solar, wind etc.I love the idea that this morning's news could be linked to Sandstorm or perhaps others that are known to be interested again in the Hot Gold Corridor. No smoke without fire as they say!! Or are we doing 2+2 =5?

[plasybryn] 13/9/2019 12:00

I doubt that.

[jc2706] 13/9/2019 11:43

Personally I would love an alternative to lithium batteries which I believe are approaching the limits of their chemistry with improvements being incremental. Whilst there is a lot of research into battery technologies currently, a lot of this is aimed at improving Li-ion. It is at grid scale that Li-ion is less likely to dominate but for cars it will be many years before it can be challenged.

[jc2706] 13/9/2019 11:39

Helium is useful for balloons and silly voices though.

[meanreverter] 13/9/2019 11:27

Just to add to the discussion on lithium batteries versus hydrogen fuel cells:

There are only two elements lighter than lithium: hydrogen and helium. The latter is an inert gas and has essentially no chemistry — for energy storage or any other purpose. That leaves only hydrogen, which is indeed wonderfully light. However, to carry enough of it to power a car within a reasonable amount of space requires tremendous compression — several hundred times atmospheric pressure. In turn, this requires very high-grade engineering for its supply, transfer, and storage, with considerable issues concerning both weight and safety with regard to the latter.

I'm not saying that these issues can't eventually be dealt with economically. But, in the meantime, the lithium battery is being continually refined and improved.

[bigglesbingham] 13/9/2019 10:00

Adding two and two and coming up with eight ha ha. You never know though

[jc2706] 13/9/2019 10:00

CC,

If it was evening I would suspect your dot positioning to be influenced by alcohol.

[bigglesbingham] 13/9/2019 09:59

Help and second opinion is always a good thing . He can always choose to ignore it but I think getting in additional expertise is a positive.

[8rad] 13/9/2019 09:49

CC.....hopefully you are right and then game on but conversely it might be that Kerim is finding Salinbas a bit of a mystery and seeks assistance.

[soulsauce] 13/9/2019 09:43

Indeed Plasybryn.

What they usually like to do as well is write & publish lots of very detailed pages about what they have found. All highlights Salinbas.

[charles clore] 13/9/2019 09:41

I am joining up the dots and thinking that MDRU is acting on behalf of Sandstorm who are working up a possible bid for Salinbas.

[plasybryn] 13/9/2019 09:34

Goodstuff Soulsauce. And of course free advice/input plus spreading the word into the community we want to know about it. Also shows confidence imo and underpins Kerim's desire to support these sort of educational projects.

[soulsauce] 13/9/2019 09:12

As ever with Twitter pictures and little explanation we will likely never know.

Looks like a bunch of Geo's out on a jolly looking at complex mineralised geology.

I work with some Geo's in my volunteering role, that is why I knew pretty soon that the shiny yellow bits in one of the previous tweets wasn't gold.
They are an excitable bunch and will travel extensively to look at rocks to try to piece together when and how they were formed.
What I do know is they rarely all agree. Hopefully they may provide feedback to the company to assist Kerim and Zack in making decisions going forward.

[8rad] 13/9/2019 09:00

Good question.