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Nice find Mucker. It's this type of news that gives me hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel. As focus starts to move away from covid (slightly), I see some more articles appearing again focusing on the future of the planet etc.

Hopefully we see more articles like this in the near future. AFC must be a strong candidate in this project, they can certainly provide what they're after. Fingers crossed.

Sorry if posted before: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-51817767

One interesting quote in the article "A rapid switch to electric vehicles... is being held back by a lack of fit-for-purpose charging infrastructure."

They will build 100 of these stations over the UK, the first will open this summer. It seems they use a combination of solar and battery storage, I presume their model is proven though I struggle to see how 24 cars charging can be supplied using this technique in the UK, I guess I'm wrong. Shows there is demand in the market though, very intrigued to see what AFC come out with...

I've been working with battery powered aircraft development in Norway. It's hard to say where battery technology will go in the future, there are many possibilities that could make it achievable, and probably will.

I think the future of aviation will be decided by if people need to keep living so fast. Can we really justify flying within the UK as a face to face meeting is preferred over a video meeting?

I can see air ships making a come back in one form or another.

Can't believe we closed at opening price, in this market, fantastic confidence booster.

The appointment of Tom Pollard is very interesting. He must have seen something he liked, which is encouraging.

Let's hope AFC can keep up this strength through the weeks ahead, and Mr. Pollard can add to his good sales repertoire.

I don't think the oil price itself will directly benefit AFC, though I think it may fast track what will be happening anyway, as ferrotty said. The oil price has just dropped 20%, it is becoming less appealing for large institutions to continue to invest in oil related companies, especially when more and more people are calling them out for doing so, after suggesting they are looking to become sustainable. Oil companies share prices will be slaughtered tomorrow, I know my profit from shorting oil will go in to AFC!

For me, the oil price dropping has made the NOK incredibly weak, so in effect my AFC shares in GBP are now worth much more, winners and losers in all types of markets.

I don't know enough companies listed in the ftse, though there could be many that are more of a bargain next week, hard to judge how things will work out now. I have plenty I'm thinking off up here in the North.

I find it amazing when you compare action on climate change vs this virus. Scientists tell us we must act immediately, millions will die, we must make changes now - everyone says no way. Scientists tell us we should wash our hands regularly and sneeze in to a tissue, and the world goes in to meltdown.

The positive finish is a positive sign, I feel we may have a better week next week. The news will have to start reporting again on the climate issues, the main large UK news companies have all made a pledge to focus on it this year.

Actually I think it's just a panic sell off in general. The news of the rate cut in the States has had a negative effect so far. I think we should expect a red day tomorrow, and some strange behaviour in the week(s) ahead. We will have some smart investors buying, mixed with RA selling, general market panic and erratic moves up or down.

I think we need to buckle up for a bit, and not get caught up what may be some frustrating days. We can sooth ourselves with more potential customer chat and the like, and/or re-reading the last RNS.

We never know when news may drop, but we should not get scared by erratic share price movements in the coming days, remember, they are no reflection of AFC. Up or down, there is always someone trying to make money. We should remember why we are here, and the exciting future that we will share, which is now within touching distance (wash your hands after touching) .

Thanks Doc7 for the summary. I definitely agree with your idea that people will be looking for new places to invest, and I too view this market reset as a positive on many levels. It was going to happen sooner or later, and I feel the timing of it may benefit us.

All the best. Will be interesting to see how this week pans out.

Hi DW, I still stand by my original analysis, that is this will blow over, though I had no doubt it would spread, the reaction is perhaps more extreme than I may have imagined. The WHO themselves have said fear is one of the biggest dangers with this outbreak, and The Who also suggest in may be something to do with Our Generation, baby. I was tangled up in the swine flu in Mexico, wasn't pleasant.

Is this an over reaction in the markets? I think so yes, though this was also primed to happen, it demonstrates how fragile things are now. There are many underlying facts that have lead to this week, the virus was the catalyst to wake the situation.

I still also believe it may turn out to be beneficial to us with AFC. We've now pressed the reset button, the dust will settle and AFC will continue their product roll out. AFC have one of the most exciting years ahead, no doubt more press coverage and the Sky interview will continue to get word around. AFC ended rather nicely on tradegate, more than can be said for many. The more you read the RNS, the more you appreciate it, a lot of information in there. This should be reposted next week when we (hopefuly) see more buyers return.

If things get too wild out there, I see many people in China are using 20 litre drinking bottles and cutting them out to fit their heads when they venture outdoors. As the number infected are dropping there, I may make my own.

Obviously dissapointed to miss the interview today, though was definitely the correct decision not to air it today. As was said on a date mentioned in other threads, this is a better time to try and hide bad news. With the news consumed with words such as pandemic, global recession and collapse, this interview would have been wasted.

Next week will hopefuly look a little brighter, and after that excellent and interesting RNS, we should hopefuly see some more positive action. The markets will take a long time to recover from this correction, however I believe the larger companies that were already massively overvalued will have the hardest time. Companies like AFC will again have the limelight. This year is looking rather exciting, let's hope for mor epositive news next week.

Great news, and as so many people have been crying out for more PR, we now have the CEO on a national news show!

It has been a terrible week, and it doesn't look like it will end well either, though we could be lucky with AFC.

Looking at the Sky pledge on net zero, you could wonder if they may make some deals with AFC... Having them on the show, they do provide products that would fill many of the requirements they have set themselves.

Will be nice with something to look forward to tomorrow, which may otherwise be another tough day in the markets.

We are in a correction phase as a worldwide market now. This is no particular reflection on AFC as a whole, some days it's held up where others have fallen, today it's having a larger fall. Not that AFC pick and choose when to release news, though this week would be a very bad time to do so.

This virus has been a trigger to what has been new all time highs repeatedly for many weeks. Although we have not seen all time highs at AFC recently, large investors take out their money at these times and find a safe haven to place their funds. We are part of the market, and therefore we will see a drop in line with the rest of the market.

The news today is not good on the virus, this spreads fear, uncertainty and doubt in the market and we will see another red day, sellers are in control. I know not many people are technical traders here, and I don't look at AFC for technicals personally, though as a market we can look at the bigger picture. Take the S&P 500, this has broken through many resistance levels, we would like to see buyers return now at around the 3020 level, this would give us good indications that the market has found it's bottom, it would also coincide with a market correction of around 10% which are common throughout history. The virus has not yet hit America so it will be interesting to follow this.

On the plus side, if the market decides it has found a bottom, this will lead to a significant bounce. AFC are close to releasing the news we all want, going on the latest blog. If by some miracle the news is released when the market turns, this would be extra beneficial for us, remember when the buyers do return, they will return in force to grab what they consider a bargain. Hydrogen is still the hot topic, even a pandemic will not stop this.

So for now, we should relax, let the markets have their correction, turn off your screens and maybe check back on Friday or next week.

Thanks for that Sprog, excellent read that I hadn't come across yet. Personally, even with this latest discovery, I can't see fusion becoming mainstream for maybe 30 years, and by mainstream I mean begin to be commercially attractive in any sense, just my guess. We're talking about 20 PetaWatt lasers, and people are looking at 200 PetaWatts in the near future, truly mind boggling, we may even skip this latest discovery and move in to nuclear photonics for fusion.

We digress, the future from my perspective is hydrogen, future being minimum 50 years. As public opinion sways on the subject of hydrogen and governments back more and more projects, the buzz word becomes more buzzing. Here is a link to an article suggesting "fuel cell market size worth $33.09 Billion By 2027", quite promising: https://www.grandviewresearch.com/press-release/global-fuel-cell-market

And here are some people predicting the future from 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qStTIX86mhE
No mention of hydrogen sadly, and I find it hard to believe they thought the voice recognition system would approve of his mispronunciation of "Bach".

*Looking forward to news was a typo...

To add to the Netherlands post, having read that they look like an even more appealing market. I posted a link earlier so I will just quote it now: "The Dutch are developing ’Hydrogen Valley’ in Northern Netherlands, which is a public-private initiative that connects 30 individual projects. The goal is to develop a hydrogen economy on a small scale including production, storage, transportation, and consumption. The alignment of interests is also creating a need for collaboration between the European neighbors."

The Dutch are forward thinking people with some interesting ideas. I'm still often left with the idea that the British may be a bit slower on the uptake, from the articles I read I find there is often a hint of sceptisicm or negativity, though I do see this changing quickly these days.

On the thread deviation topic, I've held this for too long and have never sold any, often to my despair! It's the only share I've never traded and held blindly against everything, so it's fair to say I have confidence. I am finally above my average price which has been as high as 40+. I must also pay tribute to my fantastic aunt, who has also held AFC for many years and bolstered my confidence over a bottle of wine on many evenings.

Looking forward to the weeks ahead.

Looking forward to news

I must admit I do like LinkedIn, for many reasons on a professional level though for this particular situation, it gives you a chance to have a look who's liked posts or shared them and speculate....

I noticed on an older AFC post that a fund manager from my bank had liked one of the posts. It got me wondering if my posts in the Norwegian share forums had perhaps got his attention and brought him there... I'll never know the truth, though it made me think perhaps our comments on the Internet may go further than we sometimes think.

Whilst on the topic of Powercell, as many here have compared other hydrogen based companies to AFC, I thought it would be of interest to compare these two.

Powercell listed on the Swedish Stockholmsbörsen, yesterday signed an agreement with Japanese Inabata: https://www.powercell.se/en/newsroom/press-releases/detail/?releaseId=1DE5397F62D8CB66

Powercell shares are up today at around £30. They have been around for about 10 years and have had a string of good news releases recently. The major difference is they make fuel cells for vehicles.

Positives I take from this is we are seeing increases in hydrogen related companies across the board now, not only hydrogen generation companies. With all this hydrogen soon to be created, they will need places to use it... Japan is also an interesting market, and AFC have links there.

The outlook for AFC is extremely positive in my opinion. This road show will have presented their products to some extremely influential people, and it seems folk aren't hanging about to jump on the hydrogen fuelled train these days. When it comes to Alkamem, with Denora on board, I'm pretty sure the people who need to know about this technology will do when it's ready!

Hi chippyjo. I'm not sure if I mentioned power cell or only NEL. Either way, rather than seeing all these other companies shoot up and getting frustrated, I'm sitting back and waiting for AFC to have its turn! Given the increased exposure, there is something in the air for AFC now, I can feel it! Hoping for a blog entry tonight, and I thought it was only my partner who read the online blogs!

Hi Desert, yes I agree, China is dead at the moment, though once people get over the flu it will pick back up again. I think AFC making the news there is excellent, let's not forget they are leaders in the EV market and also the hydrogen market.

Hi iwant. I'd certainly like to imagine that could happen, it's crossed my mind many times over the years. NEL will be supplying Nikola with the 700 hydrogen fuelling stations and hydrogen generation in California to be installed by 2028.

To add to another AFC LTH holder story, I sold out all of my NEL holdings to add to my AFC when NEL was about 20 pence... Looking at ITM I think NEL may have some more potential. There are many possibilities out there for these innovative companies to work together, the potential is huge for all of them now, finally!