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[gicater] 01/9/2021 11:26

Regarding road resurfacing, there should be interesting information coming soon from the trials using graphene by Iterchimica in Italy and for Highways England. Obviously for something like roads, lengthy trials are required, given the huge costs of road resurfacing and ensuing traffic disruption.

[jonnysquare] 01/9/2021 11:03

How about a large fish?

[yombo araka] 01/9/2021 11:02

I can't keep this going by myself lads, come on return the ball now and then 😶

[schmally] 01/9/2021 10:39

Flatcoat, your comment is extremely short-sighted and totally misses the point. The key reason potholes don't get filled quickly, is because they don't tend to get reported until the holes are quite large and therefore the costs to repair hundreds of them are excessive for council's with stretched budgets.

The benefits of graphene infused tarmac are as follows:

1) The graphene tarmac equivalent will be far more hardwearing, so potholes will be far less prevalent (less maintenance vehicles, fuel, workers, materials, etc). The cost savings would be significant.

2) Only minimal degradation would create warning messages to centralised maintenance locations to notify that repairs are required before any significant damage is done, so very low cost repairs could be conducted by single persons or small teams (depending on minimum H&S requirements) in multiple local areas very quickly, preventing any significant repairs ever being required

3) Cost savings via fewer and quicker repairs can be used to relay more roads with enhanced tarmac, creating a virtuous circle.

Future cost savings are only prevented if initial investment is are not committed to roll out the new tarmac materials as a default choice up front by local authorities. That will only happen if the new tarmac costs are prohibitive compared to existing material costs.

[dil 21] 01/9/2021 10:18

And a great job he’s doing of that.

[yombo araka] 01/9/2021 10:09

Sloppy either about to embrace or 'shoo' away the pink chap (probably the latter as he's a nasty c*nt) ?

[yombo araka] 01/9/2021 10:00

If anyone has any suggestions/requests of what else I could do with this image of Sloppy please let me know ..



NB: You may notice that the various jars in the previous image, helped disguise the fact the chap in the base image is a good deal slimmer than Mr Sloppy.

[alchemy] 01/9/2021 09:52

He does have a fiduciary duty to maximise shareholder value

[yombo araka] 01/9/2021 09:51

1. Find image of man with outstretched arms.

2. Remove watermark from image.

3. Resize/alter angle of Sloppy's head.

4. Graft Sloppy's head onto outstretched arms image.

5. Find pictures of pickles etc.

6. Remove background/resize pickles etc.

7. Overlay pickles etc onto picture of Sloppy.

8. Crop and resize.

My 'work' doesn't happen by chance Sloppy, I hope you appreciate the 15 minutes of my life I devoted to this 'project'

[fireball xl5] 01/9/2021 09:32

I'm getting giddy. Fffff from this mornings posts that tipping point is now finely balanced. The investment opportunity and unicorn status to that world of the autonomous vehicle, Total Recall.

[yombo araka] 01/9/2021 09:30

Sloppy proudly displays his impressive selection of preserves, chutneys and pickles .. (which has grown suspiciously large since his fund raise)

[alchemy] 01/9/2021 09:25

Yes is he a hobbyist? If he is the company would still flourish but I'd like him more Gatesian Muskian Bezosian,

[dudhew] 01/9/2021 09:10

Agreed but company needs to play its part. Too many loose ends, no contracts and too many false dawns. Worries me that CEO said he could have retired a few years ago when asked in recent interview. Doing this for good of planet. Commendable but need to take shareholders along so the result is even better. Will turn when messaging has substance.

[alchemy] 01/9/2021 08:53

Be nice to have a sequence of blue days.

[jointer13] 01/9/2021 07:59

its about the capabilities of graphene

[jointer13] 01/9/2021 07:57

you cant...but they can

[flatcoat1] 01/9/2021 07:56

Graphene is a great material and has many uses as most people on here will know about.But really, smart roads to say when they need maintenance is a bit too far. I mean even when a road has so many potholes it has more craters than the moon they don't repair it. I can't see a sensor making any difference.

[jointer13] 01/9/2021 07:24

"The vision is to deliver roads made out of smart materials that can measure and monitor their own performance over time. The researchers will use graphene infused concrete coatings to enable self-sensing on both the road surface and the median barrier, informing the road's Digital Twin through robotic monitoring. These self-sensing and self-healing materials, along with a wide range of measured data, will inform the data-science enabled digital processes, resulting in making better design, construction, maintenance, and operation predictions. This will make roads considerably less expensive, more reliable, and safer, allowing highways agencies and councils to identify when repair work is needed."

New research project aims to make the UK a global leader in digital roads technology

Cambridge engineers will explore how Digital Twins, smart materials, data science and robotic monitoring can work together to develop a connected physical and digital road infrastructure system.
'Digital Roads' is the beacon of our broader £15 million Digital Roads of the Future initiative, aimed at jump-starting the digital transformation of our roads sector. Combined, these programmes will build a critical mass of over 50 researchers at Cambridge over the next five years, working collaboratively.
Dr Ioannis Brilakis
The business-led £8.6 million research project, announced in support of the government’s UK Innovation Strategy, is one of eight Prosperity Partnerships being supported with an investment of almost £60 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), businesses and universities.

Dr Ioannis Brilakis, Laing O'Rourke Reader in Construction Engineering, will lead the project titled Digital Roads, which aims to improve the cost, time, quality, safety, sustainability, and resilience performance of expressways. Co-investigators Dr Fumiya Iida, Professor Abir Al-Tabbaa and Professor Mark Girolami will join him. The Cambridge engineers will work in partnership with Highways England and construction and engineering company Costain.

The vision is to deliver roads made out of smart materials that can measure and monitor their own performance over time. The researchers will use graphene infused concrete coatings to enable self-sensing on both the road surface and the median barrier, informing the road's Digital Twin through robotic monitoring. These self-sensing and self-healing materials, along with a wide range of measured data, will inform the data-science enabled digital processes, resulting in making better design, construction, maintenance, and operation predictions. This will make roads considerably less expensive, more reliable, and safer, allowing highways agencies and councils to identify when repair work is needed.

Dr Brilakis said: “Digital Roads is the beacon of our broader £15 million Digital Roads of the Future initiative, that also includes the £5.9 million EU MSCA COFUND FUTUREROADS Fellowships Programme and other programmes, aimed at jump-starting the digital transformation of our roads sector. Combined, these programmes will build a critical mass of over 50 researchers at Cambridge over the next five years, working collaboratively with Highways England, Costain and many other industry partners to rethink roads delivery and management, deliver impact directly to all partners involved, and set the foundations for a long-term Institute on the Future of Roads.”

Professor Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair at the University of Cambridge, Academic Director for CSIC and Programme Director for Data-Centric Engineering at The Alan Turing Institute, said: “We can consider Digital Roads as providing one of the components of the cyber-physical fabric essential for more resilient and robust UK infrastructure. Digital Roads is an excellent example of the need for multi-disciplinary teams adopting a data-centric engineering approach to address some of the grand challenges we face.”

Professor Al-Tabbaa, Head of the FIBE and FIBE2 CDTs and Director of the Resilient Materials for Life (RM4L) programme grant, said: “Digital Roads will enable us to capitalise on our long-standing successful partnership with Highways England and Costain to continue our journey together delivering cutting-edge research and innovations. We have set ourselves exciting and challenging targets to deliver significant advances towards making the UK a global leader in digital roads technology and delivering net zero roads.”

Dr Iida, Reader in Robotics, said: “This project will see robotics and AI technologies applied to the high-impact application area of civil engineering, where a considerable growth margin is expected. Academic researchers will be better connected and able to collaborate with industrial partners to achieve real-life impact with their research.”

By 2030, the Digital Roads team aims to develop outcomes to a commercial stage and to follow the same development journey for other road assets such as bridges and tunnels, followed by the entire strategic road network by 2040. This will ensure that roads become safer, serviceable at a lower cost, and maintained more efficiently and sustainably, reducing the emissions generated by roadworks, and preventing unnecessary delays to motorists.

Prosperity Partnerships build on existing UK strengths in industry and academia to develop new technologies, processes, and skills that will deliver economic growth and create jobs across the UK.

EPSRC Executive Chair Professor Dame Lynn Gladden said: “Artificial intelligence, digital chemistry and Digital Twins are some of the new and transformative technologies that will help to drive the Net Zero revolution, address major societal challenges, and deliver prosperity to the UK.

“By bringing together UK businesses and universities, these new Prosperity Partnerships will generate the knowledge and innovations that will enable these cutting-edge technologies to realise their transformative potential across a diverse range of sectors.”

[squire007] 01/9/2021 01:00

Tyres are the next great environmental scandal that no one is talking about. Tyres are responsible for more PM air pollution in the UK than all tailpipes (PM2.5 & PM10, DEFRA), over a quarter of all primary micro plastic pollution in our oceans (28%, IUCN), and billions of tyres are wasted and burned annually, accelerating climate change.

[alchemy] 01/9/2021 00:07

So it's September the factory move is over.That's known whatever happens at 7 am Now the management say our customers will have the confidence to order.

[alchemy] 01/9/2021 00:04

Pinch Punch, First of the Month.

I’m about to write about the potential of a loss making U.K. based stock, worse still it’s an Aim stock.

So, VRS, Versarien, is it really about to grow a single horn on a white body pretty quickly? By which I mean reach a market capitalisation of £1 billion. I have to shake my head even as I ask the question. Do I really find it plausible? Yes, but only sometimes. But, if it starts. I can’t seeing it cooling off for a very long time and at a very high price.


I put this down on paper some weeks ago. “Are you trying to anticipate when the VRS lift-off will happen? I am, though I can’t buy any more shares, even recklessly” I can now add that I am over committed.


But I’m old enough to know there’s nothing written to say I’ll be rescued.

Read on.

The next results published early in 2022 but known by Mr Leigh and other Directors in just over a month, might only include two or three weeks of the new facilities’ output. But I’m sure the order book will be visible by then. If not there really is a problem.

But here’s the list I will be ticking off.

I now call it my Ian Allen List. Things that can influence a share price. I shall mark things off, I hope, as I did the A4 Pacifics on Platform 3 of Doncaster Station years ago. If you don’t get that it’s a Train Spotting thing.

Excitement and fashion

Here, I really mean the return of the enthusiasm of the early years. I’d quite like Graphene to hit the headlines once more. Headlines about its application. This will give the amplification and context in which more mundane items like orders and paid invoices can thrive. Currently I see the status under this heading as promising

Proven demand …orders
This is is the biggie. So, let’s get started in concrete and textiles.

Institutional investment in shares
That’s where we have a gaping hole at the moment. RtG mentioned Lanstead but that’s not quite the institution type I mean.

Who we work with

We have some recognisable names we have agreements with.
Rolls Royce , Airbus. Names that we should recognise like Coats

And some like Arrow in Sri Lanka whom we begin now to recognise.

Some that Gnanomat are working with.

And some tadpoles that may grow into frogs the Princesses may kiss. Yes some have dropped out like Zap’n’Go.



Growth in turnover.
The potential here is very promising. If it becomes a stand out success in concrete, textiles or both potential will be demonstrated very quickly. Plus we have road surfaces, light weighting, and a myriad others.
International spread
Our GDP per head here in the U.K. is but 25th or so in the world table. Therefore a star company has to put it about in the world. So profit centres in trade groups EU, US and highly populated countries are needed for us to be truly recognised internationally. It’s a long time since the U.K. provided a world wide corporate phenomenon. ARM being the last and clearest example? Bases and activity in South Korea and Spain are a start. And we say we’re in the USA.

Royalties

Money while we sleep. That’s the dream and that’s why I love the South Korea model. That could clear our Opex as it currently stands, £5 million per year, before long.

And at what margin

This links to Royalties where it, the margin is a 100%
Elsewhere maybe 25%? It’s a parameter we really have no handle on as yet.

Value added

I like us owning our very own 3d printer. If we make twenty five per cent from our raw material, what percentage will we get from those fashioned pieces?
Maybe its purpose is to illustrate to others what the can do , so this needs monitoring.

Portfolio of opportunities
Cement Clothing ….add as above the full G-Scale plus.

Market leadership
At our miniscule turnover we can’t claim this but we are doing; that is, we are claiming it, so - Watch this space.

Protection
Quality marks, trademarks



Cash generation.
You get it. Investors look at cash per share. And with cash you can acquire others.
Profitable.
The all-important metric when added to cash generation, equals survival and that of course leads to thriving.
Number two is the key folks all else it seems is fruit ready to fall.


1. Excitement and fashion
2. Proven demand …orders
3. Institutional investment in shares
4. Who we work with
5. Growth in turnover
6. International Spread
7. Royalties
8. Margin
9. Value Added
10. Spread of Opportunities
11. Market Leadership
12. Protection
13. Cash Generation
14. Profit

[dudhew] 31/8/2021 21:39

What suddenly brings all these locusts back?? Not invested and infatuated!! Must be money around!! DYOR