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daz 'well on the way' could easily be code for time is passing and we're still observing it, weasel words.

My village (and many around it) are reliant on oil for heating, oil's not cheap, and it's incredibly variable (doubled in price in the last 24 months) and there is infrastructure that we have to maintain (tanks and such). When it comes to boiler & tank replacement time i'd like to move away from CO2 producing fuels and go to H2, i imagine the price will be more stable, and you won't have the smell of oil wafting around. The current boilers are simple affairs, a burner, a box to focus the heat, the heat exchanger and a flu, the next boiler I could buy will need to be a condenser, massively more expensive, fractionally more efficient, massively shorter lifespan and more expensive to maintain. It might be viable to jump to another system altogether.

Yellow, there is no point in being anything but hopeful, i'm not that far into the hole on this, but what's left right now is barely worth selling vs the possibility that something might happen.

We don't have any choice about what happens here, we're very much along for the ride, we could have gotten off ages ago, but we didn't. Perhaps it'll turn around, perhaps it won't, at this point not turning around is not that much worse than where we are now. There is a need for this product, or products like it, they work, the economics may eventually make sense, could it work with this company, this board, maybe/maybe not.

BB the cynic (and project manager who has been in sticky situations ) in me thinks that perhaps 3.1 is between 3 and 4...

It's a town car... providing it can drive over the QE2 bridge that's probably worst case, it just doesn't scale well to vehicles that are meant to travel further and in more varied conditions.

I don't think I'm confusing the 2, they specifically mention that the FC is small, and that the cap's are used for acceleration and providing enough power to climb, cruise is fed from the FC. The point with climbing is you are fighting the deceleration of gravity, hence having to accelerate constantly, at some point you'll accelerate to a lesser degree and hence only be able to maintain a lower speed.

Does it mean that you have a limited height it can climb before performance changes dramatically as you stop using capacitors and move onto just the smaller fuel cell? So you are cruising up hill at 40mph and then you suddenly have to drop to 20mph? Or overtaking, you think you have enough in the capacitor and then you run out of oomph. Not a car I'd like to drive with those characteristics.

I saw a news article about the riversimple a couple of years ago. I'm not sure it would work as described then. It was being touted as a small city car (with practically no storage), but at a rental cost of £400/month. Which simply makes no sense. You can't nip to tesco's in it as you can't fit anything in it, so what's it's purpose? You can't justify it financially at £400/month (excluding fuel), is a lot for a very small car. So where's the business model? No model, no sales... I hope they've done something, but as a startup the costs might be inevitable.

That pp being granted would surely be public Knowledge, and you wouldn't have to be a genius to track the planning portal of that council?

I'm so negative I can't be arsed to post, I don't see the point.

SS, I was thinking the same thing, the sells and volume don't seem to match to such a swing, perhaps it is exacerbated by the number of shares available?

Probably, but why bother if you're thinking of throwing in the towel.

https://www.energy-storage.news/blogs/hybrid-theory-in-practice-energy-storage-as-key-to-australias-energy-revolu

I've asked the question, we'll see what the answer is, if any

Is it diversifying? it's still h2 in e out, but for a certain scale of unit and in a different box? that's still core product and might well be just N units plumbed together and not M units plumbed together, there's always going to be variations in that number as individual clients demand differing power levels. If there are changes in voltage and current requirements as there will be for car charging in the high 10's of KW range then that's what the inverter does which i'd expect to be off the shelf.

It's all in the presentation.

I can see the foaming spittle from here.

Did you see the news from Siemens about hot rock energy storage, use excess power to heat rocks underground to 750C and then semi conventional means to use the heat to generate e. Might be simpler than CH4 unfortunately.

How much environmental damage does a hydrogen explosion cause compared to a gas station, excluding the similar physical impact.

I got in low so I'm lucky (not so lucky elsewhere as is the way of things) progressing well and not dropped much post divi.

They seem to be in the habit of posting the same thing to many different locations.