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[hazl] 02/1/2024 10:24

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INSG

[hazl] 01/1/2024 05:26

One of the biggest limitations to emerging marine fuels is the time required to roll these out at the commercial level. It can take several years to develop new ship technology and manufacture a fleet of new vessels, meaning that these fuels cannot be used in the short term to decarbonise marine activities.

Many major companies are now investing in the development and production of SMFs to support the decarbonisation of activities, as governments push companies to support a green transition. Oil and gas giant Chevron hopes to increase its production of renewable diesel to 100,000 bpd by 2030. In 2022, Chevron Renewable Energy Group entered a strategic agreement with Bunker Holding Group, the world’s largest supplier and trader of marine fuels, to develop the U.S. and EU marine markets for sustainable bio-based diesel. The partnership is currently running trials with B20 and B30 SMF across both regions.
Oil voice.


We are already there!
And it has taken years.
We are ready to go....amusing really...we have beaten the big boys...but will they take us out on the cheap?

Downloads/Potential%20of%20Biofuels%20for%20Shipping_rev1_Sept23.pdf


Despite existing barriers as identified in the study, the uptake of biofuels is expected to increase, as it is the only
readily available option at the industry to start its decarbonisation. Biofuels benefit from their drop-in nature, the
fact that many of the existing maritime regulations can be transferred from their fossil equivalents and that the
risks associated with using biofuels are similar to those of conventional fuels. Although not seen as a major barrier,
it would be beneficial to increase knowledge sharing and update current regulations to explicitly and
homogenously account for biofuels. This can provide more clarity and reduce the administrative burden and
concerns of flag States, class societies, shipowners and operators when considering biofuels.
While the demand grows, the availability of fully sustainable biofuels needs to grow and this alone will be
challenging, due to the uncertainty in turn on the availability of sustainable biomass. Currently, with most of the
biofuel production coming from crops, there are concerns around issues such as ILUC, food production impact
and others. Switching to other sources of biomass (such as algae or waste and residues) is necessary to ensure
the uptake of potentially more or fully sustainable biofuels. However, the introduction of international lifecycle
guidelines and sustainability criteria is paramount to ensure that the biofuels with the highest potential to
decarbonise the industry receive proper consideration and investment. As all industries will compete for the same
scarce sources of sustainable biomass, common

[hazl] 31/12/2023 12:13

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was dedicated to Walsingham.[47]

[hazl] 29/12/2023 13:08

Many Wall Street analysts believe that, despite big gains in 2023, the stage is set for gold to keep glistening next year. Central banks across the developed world are expected to start lowering borrowing costs in the first half of 2024, reversing part of their aggressive policy tightening since 2022.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell seems particularly likely to pivot soon, given that inflation in the U.S. has cooled fast. Derivatives markets price in a 79% chance of rates there being at least 1 1/2 percentage points lower in a year's time.

[hazl] 29/12/2023 13:04

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Panther Metals PLC is pleased to announce the signing of a purchase option agreement over 35 single cell mining claims to enlarge the Awkward Prospect area eastwards.

PALM

A company to loook at over the break, perhaps.

[hazl] 29/12/2023 11:00

PALM

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Panther Metals PLC is pleased to announce the signing of a purchase option agreement over 35 single cell mining claims to enlarge the Awkward Prospect area eastwards.

[hazl] 27/12/2023 20:14

Dr John McDermott, Clinical Geneticist at MFT and National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Fellow from The University of Manchester said:

“This work began with a grant from the Wellcome Trust four years ago, which supported the development of a prototype system with Genedrive. A major challenge faced across healthcare is finding pathways to develop, validate, and ultimately implement novel technology like this in the clinical setting.

[hazl] 27/12/2023 08:31

Investor protection momentum

In early 2023, several small-cap companies in the U.S. announced plans to take legal action against short-sellers targeting their stocks.

In November, South Korea placed a temporary ban on short selling until next June. The move was supported by the country’s powerful lobby of retail investors, who believe big banks are suppressing share values through short selling. Over a quarter of the nation’s population invest in the stock market.

And in September, a judge in the Harrington Global Opportunity Fund market manipulation case against CIBC and big banks in the U.S. denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss the case. In her decision, she found that banks and brokerage firms can be held liable for their clients’ illegal trading, if they fail to provide proper oversight.

Banks have previously argued that they’re not responsible for clients’ illegal trading.

Lynch is encouraged by the momentum.

[hazl] 27/12/2023 08:31

During an “emergencyR21; Save Canadian Mining virtual event in late November, Sprott exhorted junior executives to take action to protect their share prices. “CEOs must realize almost everyone’s working against you,” he said. “If the price sucks, why don’t you wake up and do something about it!”

While Lynch doesn’t want to take the banks to court, he wants to let them know industry is willing to go that far.

“Nobody wants to really fight them, but we need to show them, hey, we’ve got the evidence,” he said. “The banks and the regulators, once they decide they want to do something, they can move very swiftly. They can change all these rules overnight.”

That could usher in the biggest mining boom in human history, he posited.

To the banks, he offers this message:

“The money on the shorting side of this business is almost done. You’ve almost killed us. You need to invest in the long side, and then everyone’s gonna make out like crazy.”

[hazl] 27/12/2023 08:29

Terry Lynch began to notice unusual price movements in Power Nickel (TSXV: PNPN; US-OTC: PNPNF)’s stock (then called Chilean Metals) years ago.

The shares consistently traded down at the end of the day, regardless of news, with late day trades often made anonymously.
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Now the stock is stuck in a range of C25¢ to C30¢ — despite a recently released initial nickel-sulphide resource for the company’s optioned Nisk project in Quebec, and a staged deal with battery and defence supplier CVMR to fund engineering studies.

It’s not unusual for a junior mining CEO to be unhappy with his share price, but Lynch says Power Nickel isn’t alone and something is amiss in the junior sector. The disconnect between the commodity markets and the junior mining-heavy TSX Venture Index, which is at an all-time low, has reached its widest point.

“When I first started talking about this, people thought, Terry, you should have a tinfoil hat on your head. They thought I was a crazy conspiracy theorist,” he told The Northern Miner in early December. “But you know what? I got proof. Man, this is really happening and I’m not the only one that sees it.”

In search of answers to the sector’s woes, he formed the Save Canadian Mining group in 2019, recruiting big names like Eric Sprott, Rob McEwen and Sean Roosen as supporters. Now, he can point to exactly what’s bleeding the junior market dry: Predatory short-selling.

“We’re in a market where the governments, to their credit, federally and provincially, have put out some amazing incentives for miners to actually get out there and explore and develop mines,” he said. “So really, we should be in our glory years and we’re instead about to go extinct.”

Short selling is a legal way for traders to profit from a falling stock price. Traders sell borrowed shares in the hope of buying them on the market at a lower price. It serves an important function in helping the market discover the true value of a company’s shares and has even helped uncover frauds like Enron. But it can also be done illegally, if traders don’t “cover” their position — meaning the trader is selling shares they haven’t borrowed, located, or confirmed are available for them to buy.

Lynch and others say “naked” shorting is a widespread and destructive problem in the junior mining sector. Last week he filed a formal complaint with the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) and FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) in the United States asking them to act on illegal short selling and restore investor confidence in the market.

[hazl] 19/12/2023 20:39

'The regulators also highlighted the growing role of nonbanks and private credit as meriting close attention, and said financial institutions and regulators should continue to try to better understand risks stemming from climate change.

Some AI tools can be hugely technical and opaque, making it hard for institutions to explain or properly monitor them for shortcomings.

If companies and regulators do not fully understand AI tools, then it is possible they could miss biased or inaccurate result.

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INSG

[hazl] 13/12/2023 20:36

Neonatal testing

Testing for the genetic variant m.1555A>G is available through point of care testing for neonates with sepsis. However, this is not currently commissioned nationally.

Further information is available in NICE’s Early Value Assessment:
Genedrive MT-RNR1 ID Kit for detecting a genetic variant to guide antibiotic use and prevent hearing loss in babies.

[hazl] 13/12/2023 08:06

3. Non-COVID-19 causes of death contribute more to total excess mortality than COVID-19 for younger ages.
For older ages, COVID-19 is driving excess mortality.
Examining the differences in
respondents’ estimates of excess
mortality with and without COVID-19 as
a cause of death provides insights into
how much of the total excess is directly
attributable to COVID-19 as a cause of
death. For age 25, non-COVID-19 causes
are expected to contribute most of the
excess deaths. However, COVID-19 has a
larger impact on total projected excess
deaths at 65 and 85 in most years. For
example, in 2022, for age 25 the average
total estimated percentage of excess
mortality with COVID-19 is 17%, of which
respondents estimate only 3% of the
excess is due to COVID-19 deaths. At age 85, the average total excess mortality percentage is 11%, with the
majority of this (6%) due to COVID-19 deaths. By 2030 most of the excess for age 25 is still coming from
non-COVID-19 causes, but for the other ages studied, COVID-19 is driving the mortality excess.
4. Respondents expect general population mortality deterioration in all years due to drug ove

[hazl] 11/12/2023 19:10

See MSC is a bit different perhaps self made family firm thinks outside the box I admire them.
Don't like the alternatives here.
I genuinely believe ours is the safest.
There seems more of a collaboration between these in this pdf.

[hazl] 09/12/2023 14:00

From above

'this world class asset, now to official Tier 1 status.'
Happily our members got in on the ground floor here when a fraction of the price'.

I wonder if that was higher than we are now?
If they sold at a high good luck to them.
Things go in cycles.
I don't know what will happen here. Because of the complications of ownership in the form of major shareholders.
I remember log was saying earlier on, that we might only get 12p plus at one time, but it is still higher than we are now, even from a naysayer!

Also this old article will mean it will be viewed positively again, if and when commodies shine.

[hazl] 08/12/2023 08:07

He also said the costs of treating hearing loss was "high". Fitting a pair of cochlear implants - which use a microphone to convert sounds to an electrical signal - costs about £65,000.

GDR