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see the list here - http://www.vanitec.org/vanadium-redox-flow-battery-vrfb-companies

Big deal - ViZn also have a non-Vanadium based flow battery chemistry. Their 2x40 foot container-sized battery installed in Liege blew up two months ago.

Vanadium is the only flow battery chemistry that has critical mass. Get over it and get real.

I'm glad to see that our resident soothsayer is so keen on battery safety. No doubt he will appreciate what Fire Captain Matthew Paiss says here:- http://energyresponsesolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/VRB_SafetyReport.pdf

Vanadium flow battery systems offer significant safety advantages relative to li-ion in
the areas of short-circuit fault, arc-flash / blast, “stranded” energy, fire suppression,
and deflagration. This can lead to a streamlined review and approval process for all
stakeholders involved.

When comparing available ESS technologies, many factors will affect the final system
choice. From a safety perspective, significant questions remain unanswered when it
comes to protecting Li-ion batteries from thermal runaway, even more so in an
occupied structure. If codes continue developing along their current trajectory, many
structures may not be suitable without significant modifications. As one designer of
naval-based ESS explained, “A submarine must have a significantly higher level of
safety than a land based structure, as escape is impossible”. However, when looking at
ESS installations inside high-rise apartment dwellings, these structures may be
compared to submarines standing on end in terms of life hazard profiles.

somtam - well unfortunately that has already happened as 8 firefighters were hospitalized after the arizona explosion earlier this year - https://www.foxnews.com/us/arizona-firefighters-rushed-hospital-hazardous-explosion-battery-facility

As we have ex-firefighters amongst our group here maybe they would like to comment on being asked to enter a building containing a lithium-ion battery fire that could be potentially venting hydrofluoric acid as a gas.

SG - all very interesting but I'm struggling to understand what the Korean article is talking about. If it is a flow battery then there is zero chance that they have overnight been able to increase the energy density by 1000. In fact the volumetric energy density of lithium-ion is perhaps only 2-3 times better than VRFB at best. 1000 times can only be achieved in a nuclear reaction.

If you take out that rather unresearched and breathless claim from the article then it makes sense as the Korean's know only too well about the dangers of large scale battery fires as they have had over 20 major Lithium-ion ESS fires in the last couple of years there:- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-23/explosions-are-threatening-lithium-ion-s-edge-in-a-battery-race

Yachty - interesting - it doesn't look like that is down to Vaneck increasing their position, as their holdings in both BMN and Largo have not changed in the last 2 weeks. Perhaps it is those shares, loaned out to enable shorters, who have now obtained their target point and are now closing out.

you can say that again Paul

expected within minutes

Malinky and RK - so roughly 250 people who took the time to read, to be logged in and to recommend. So probably another 250 to add to that who aren't logged in or didn't recommend.

So 500 people who may regularly monitor this board not bad for what some are claiming is the worst board on AIM.

Richken - you did a test on how many people typically read the board. Can you remind us what that number was. Obviously it was a significant underestimate as not everyone will have recommended your post and many may not even be registered on LSE.co.uk.

jimbo - indeed up until about noon I get an excess of Sells of c. 77K which tallies reasonably with your numbers.

After that I think that we may disagree on the nature of the trades at the end of the day at 24.0 as I think that these are sells. There's a 50K and a 54K there which, when you take off the obvious SB end-day pairs I believe leaves you with a nett Buy excess of 345,500 shares.

I had another 30,000 shares today thanks very much

Bella - did you go back and ask your analyst friend what they though of the Avalon/RedT and Cellcube/Enerox deals that BMN have struck ?

and which of the deposits on the graph do you think the Uis mine is ?

can most likely be ignored as I expect this to be reversed off at the end of trading today

stated in the first part of the RNS but (I think) incorrectly restated as '60 tonnes per annum' towards the end of the RNS - for confirmation that it is 60 tonnes per month see the August 19th RNS

how MUCH tantalum there is that could be saleable.

No Pat48 I don't think that there would be 1.8M sells and no impact on the trading position. Given the identical value of each trade it would seem not unreasonable to classify them as a rollover i.e. one buy and one sell

pat48 - I don't think that is quite right. I have them down as one buy and one sell. This leaves the daily balance of trades within 100K of neutral

Thanks UncleJohn - I make it an excess of over 15K more Buys than sells so far.