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[erinvale] 25/9/2020 10:19

Dubois: thank you. Good job it doesn't get too heated - that might be ascribed to GW too!

[volsung] 25/9/2020 10:17

Tbh there doesn’t seem to be any way deniers will ever accept the scientific argument for AGW. Because science can never prove anything with 100% certainty.
If humanity had any sense we would follow the cautionary principle.

[dubois] 25/9/2020 10:10

Fabulous debate guys. Only on this site could we get such debate and everyone playing nicely.

[erinvale] 25/9/2020 09:43

Scrutable: Extreme weather events are not on the increase (well documented). If Global Warming is also responsible for record cold temperatures, as you suggest, then these should have been predicted by the models: they were not. That is why the MSM make no mention of them. You mention Arctic ice melt: this has incorrectly been ascribed to melting glaciers when it is in reality the result of increased freezing producing more ice which expands pushing ice cliffs into the ocean. This has long been an annual, and well recorded, event. It really won't do to take every conceivable climate event and shoe-horn it into the discredited GW hypothesis. Genuine science operates on the basis of conjecture and refutation: an hypothesis which encounters contradictory evidence is revised. The trouble with the AGW thesis is that every climate or weather event appears to be compatible with it; there is no conceivable evidence which would refute it.This is more akin to religion than science.

[1teepee] 25/9/2020 09:04

I don't pretend to have all the answers and climate change is chaos theory related. However co2 and also methane which is way worse contribute. Humans love to produce both of these in large amounts and GW is correlated. Are you the frog in the pan? Or the human with a cerebral cortex;)

[erinvale] 25/9/2020 08:44

1teepee: pray, which icebergs are affecting Tasmania and producing record early snowfall in the European Alps? Yes, the climate changes, as it has done for millenia. AGW is not a contributor to that process. The sun is currently heading towards a solar minimum (not my view but that of many climate scientists), comparable to the Maunder minimum of the mid 17th C and Dalton minimum of 18th C (also well documented and accepted). Low sunspot activity is strongly correlated with low earth T’s. None of the models on which AGW predictions are based accounts for sunspot activity - a major climate forcing mechanism. A little honesty and scientific rigour in all this would be refreshing.

[willoicc] 25/9/2020 08:43

The sun pours more energy onto Earth in one day than all the man made warming to date.

[willoicc] 25/9/2020 08:37

For information.

Sharp unveils 440 W half-cut PV module with 19.9% efficiency
The Japanese manufacturer said the new solar panel features 144 half-cells based on M6 wafers and a nine-busbar design, with a power tolerance of up to 5%.

[1teepee] 25/9/2020 08:30

Are you in denial regarding climate change?Places can get colder during GW due to icebergs floating down and disrupting the Gulf Stream that keeps the U.K. mild for its latitude.

[erinvale] 25/9/2020 08:24

Supernumerary: please also explain the well-documented record low T’s in many parts of north-east and north-central USA, mountain states seeing earliest snowfalls, record low T’s in Tasmania and in many other parts of the world. If you ascribe the wildfires to GW (which is not the case) then you must also account for these record lows. Inconvenient, but true!

[supernumerary] 24/9/2020 20:24

scrutable - you've been reading too much fifties sci-fi! Windmills, dams and solar panels won't remotely cover the needs of 10 billion people in a world 3 degrees hotter than it now is.

The earth is burning - everywhere you look there are fires - the Amazon, the Arctic, Siberia, Alaska, Australia, California and Wyoming, Indonesia, the Congo - even the Amazon wetlands are on fire! As far as I can see it's an apocalyptic harbinger of what is inevitably to come if we don't change course radically.

Nuclear is essential and sooner or later governments will wake up to the fact and start to apply the R&D investment that's required.

I'm currently following these people quite closely: but there are many others with comparable claims, and of course our old friend fusion (hot not cold!).

Sooner or later one or more of these approaches will achieve maturity and we'll be able to start taking greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere and at least slow down the so far ineluctable progress towards a world of cinder and ash.

PS FWIW I'm all in favour of short term sticking plasters such as vdtk and itm, but never forget they're only a mitigation not a solution...

[taxon1] 24/9/2020 20:00

Hi , I was invested ,and what a ride it was, in Atalya mining for a couple of years, . I still receive notices from them. I feel this mornings notice most pertinent to our cause,but hav'nt noticed any mention today . They are installing a 50MW solar plant,to provide their power. Not our equiptment, but felt it showed how solar was likely to pan out in the industry, from now on,

[scrutable] 24/9/2020 17:58

Fest

you must have been a bit sick with me when IQ-AI retraced after the first spike. I am glad that you acknowledge the source.

[scrutable] 24/9/2020 17:50

shedjock
I agree with every word you say. the'New Economy' arising post-COVID will be driven by the total shake up of global Complacency over Climate Change. Hydro-electricity apart - the world will be mainly fuelled by natural forces:Solar Energy and Wind, (Tidal Power and Wave Energy less so)The mind boggles by the scale of change and speed required and will be forced on Governments by floods and wild fires.

Incineration of anything will be seen as obscene and outlawed. Nuclear is feared and increasingly rejected rightly so, since it reacts catastrophically under Sod's Law.

RR has built a simple, distinctive, strategy by seeking out and empowering sales people with industrial specialisation in previously unserved industries and activities.

In the deserts and isolated communities he is building break-in strength and momentum through scale advantage to dominate before potential competition thinks of copying. This has already earned him cost advantage, which he has no intention of yielding in a simply colossal market.

VDTK must one day become far bigger than today imagined, (pace Sod's Law as, I apologise for having said before)

[philparkes] 24/9/2020 17:41

He’s made his money here

[rogerramjett] 24/9/2020 16:54

as long as he is not on here.

[wuzy] 24/9/2020 16:36

Ok, so l was wrong, maybe tomorrow

[shedjock] 24/9/2020 15:44

I thought I'd post the reasons I am invested:

1. They have announced orders for something around €4M since June, that we know of. That equates to over €1M/month.
2. These orders have been driven by Rob Richards, who is an experienced O&G professional, with a history of increasing and improving sales in a number of companies as a sales director, a COO and a CEO. He not only brings experience, but industry contacts.
3. He understands the industry having also been an electrical engineer.
4. The time is ripe for a shift from fuel driven power generation to solar driven PG, to meet both national and global targets for clean energy generation. The Australian government is also offering 50% rebates to companies re-powering with green energy sources.
5. The potential sales for their "standard" panels is large at the moment, given the trials that are ongoing.
6. The JP with Paragraf represents a massive potential breakthrough in increasing the efficiency of panels and how they are able to be used where others aren't.
7. Shorters are currently targeting the company, in my view to get in cheaper. I don't believe that there is actually any valid reason now that past management have departed, having not quite got it right and previously communicated poorly. TW seemed to insinuate that the problems were continuing, which I understand to be incorrect. The shares will have to be bought back at some point.
8. I like the renewable energy sector on a personal level.

Of course everyone has to make their own decision. At the end of the day, it's your money you're protecting.

Good luck all.......

[1teepee] 24/9/2020 13:55

Super g string x The TW factor x covid equals brown pants time

[naplion] 24/9/2020 13:46

seriously , what is going on ?

[kron76] 24/9/2020 13:23

Well its given me the opportunity to take my first tranche! so fingers crossed the deals keep coming.

Also freeing up some cash for further tops ups should it remain at this level or below. Just a question of this or SAE!

[festario] 24/9/2020 13:16

Scrutable.... you said a similar thing about IQAI.I'm doing well there now, but nowhere else.Are you still involved in IQAI?The sale of Stone Checker is going through its final due diligence.

[scrutable] 24/9/2020 12:49

ROGER

When the USA AND UK and EU economies are poleaxed simultaneously, (in the worst setbacks for a couple of centuries) almost EVERYTHING IS DOWN (except in this case when special segments benefit as from COVID), most investors have to liquidate part of their portfolios to pay for other things. The easiest assets to liquidate are the best shares, whilst physical property, especially, at the moment Central London housing and Commercial Sites,as well as many of Old Economy-Before-COVID bluechips, the worst.

Very soon the good investments bounce. The average stay down.

I hold a string of small caps all volatile whilst the economic hurricanes of Climate Change, Covid, and Populist governments rage, but are overall doing well in Alternate Energy, Social Comms, and Bio Tech.

Amazingly perhaps, I hold No Stinkers, except VRS, which requires infinite patience for some time still.
VDTK are 'of the time' and well poised, will do outstandingly well - 'pace' execution risk and Sod's Law