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Libero - it depends who you are talking to. If it is a fireman who is never going to be buying a VRFB then it is not worth mentioning. If it is a banker who doesn't want to be up in court on manslaughter charges if a battery catches fire then it may be worth mentioning.

I'm particularly sensitive to it today as I have just been in touch with one of the National papers and one of the main things they wanted to figure out is who I was lobbying for.

Fabulous work guys - that's a pipeline of 817 MWh of Energy Storage capacity to be decided upon in less than 6 months.

If all of this was to go to VRFB systems that would require jut under 4100 tonnes of Vanadium.

I guess that might explain why Vametco is now doing serious overtime and has been trucking extra ore over to Vanchem for at least the last month.

somtam - it is not necessary to tell everyone of the benefits of VRFB's - your concerns about Lithium will not be so easily dismissed if people don't think you're trying to push a different technology on them. They will find out about the alternatives in their own good time.

FB - thanks for explaining

you may not need to wait so long bassguy

numpty and bassguy - given that we are going to be producing about 4,000 tonnes per year more than our current customers are taking from us I see that there is no need to reduce supply to anyone. Fortune would not be so crazy to cut off our existing customer base as they continue to feed cash into our coffers.

Lindon - there is no suggestion that Vanadium has been dropped from anything.

if you want to write to your MP here's their info - https://www.theyworkforyou.com/

YTSS - I am working on a slightly different front at present but the media organisation I am in communication with may well wish to contact the Faversham people so if you can let me know who the best person to contact is I will mention it but will not be in contact with them directly lest it be seen as too contrived.

dumaskullanga - yes they even coined a word for it then "coventrieren' - which means to 'raze a city to the ground'

https://www.coventry.gov.uk/info/217/coventry_blitz/2603/20_facts_you_might_not_know_about_the_coventry_blitz#:~:text=The%20air%20raid%20on%20Coventry,a%20city%20to%20the%20ground.

dubmaskullanga - great work in finding that second resource. The key statement is on page 90:-

"From this calculation, the expected heat of combustion (heat output from the combustion) of an individual 18650 cell is
approximately 280 kJ. The individual cells in the battery pack likely contain between 7 and 11 Wh (25 and 40 kJ) of energy when fully charged."

Thus the heat of combustion of a Lithium-ion cell is approximately 10 times the electrical energy storable in that device.

50MWh is equal to 50 x 3600 MegaJoules = 180 Gigajoules. This is the electrical energy storable. The potential energy produced in a fire or explosion is ten times this - so the approx 1800 Gigajoules you have outlined.

This 1800 GJ is approximately half of the 3850 GJ liberated of the 2700 Tonnes of Ammonium Nitrate stored at beirut port. The Beirut explosion had an equivalent force of 1,800 tonnes of TNT thus the Coventry battery is equivalent in energy to around 900 tonnes of TNT

with your name I'd expect nothing less

Tesla shares are $1542 each - it is up 13% today alone. Their valuation is insane.

Paul - it was only 'down' today because the end day UT trade yesterday spoofed a closing price of 13.50p

You can point out to them that it was a battery that was only 1/175th of the size that they wish to build (350MWh) that blew up in Arizona in 2019, throwing one of the firefighters 70 feet ( https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/batteries-storage/dispute-erupts-over-what-sparked-an-explosive-liion-energy-storage-accident )

You can also point out to them that VRFB's have no such safety concerns and that Rongke power have in fact built an 800MWh VRFB slap bang in the middle of Dalian City, a city of 8 million people.

They kept this bit VERY quiet at the time

In the explosion, Captain E193 and firefighter E193 were thrown against and under a chain-link fence surrounding the facility. The captain landed more than 70 feet from the open door; the firefighter landed 30 ft away.

I recall that there was no mention of an explosion or a fire - they just wanted to hide behind the weasel words 'deflagration event' - so presumable the brain and chemical injuries to the firefighters are just another example of "collateral impact" - jeez it makes your blood boil !

no but with some proper heels (4" or 5") you'd probably look ok

swampdub - there's a program for people like you https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p07kt8b4/rupauls-drag-race-uk

Rob - that's over 1 million shares for you in the last 3 weeks alone - can you let us you know what it is you see in BMN ?

indeed diamond lover maybe a bit more than a 2-bed appartment