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Well said Loudspeaker who cares what the SP does day to day - that is only a reflection of the weakest and perhaps least researched holder of shares, or the desperation of shorter. As soon as we get a news trigger this will motor on up towards 40p. Remember we got a x3 rise on zero news earlier this year. Just imagine what it will be like when published numbers demonstrate that Vametco is making more than 150M USD a year. All this from a company that less than 15 months ago Fortune masterminded the buying of for less than 20M USD. Incredible.

qwertyqwer - the thing that you want to hold in a recession is a commodity, not fiat currency. A commodity that is in worldwide structural deficit and needs to be used for everything from building bridges and cars to powering our grids. This is the best hedge against anything bad happening that I can possibly think off, short of a lead lined bunker.

Previous high was 16.55 in April for V2O5 - Vanadium is about to hit new 5 year highs and the SP is still mucking about below 20p what an absolute shower AIM is.

Thanks very much for whoever decided to give their shares away so cheaply - just picked up another 10 grands worth at exactly the point that there are 4 market makers trying to buy shares.

Tyfoon - I think that would be a very positive move. Why not list in a country that has more than a good understanding of mining. Both the Canadian and Australian exchanges value their junior miners much more than AIM so it would be about time that we got some recognition for the value that Vametco is generating

@ludeck - that is just your opinion

Daisan, the 'S" in BRICS is South Africa

Have a look at this for another comparison https://palisade-research.com/vanadium-value-play-2018/ Where do people think that BMN sits on the graph or 'Vanadium Peer Comparison' A) A higher value than Largo. B) Between Largo and Stina C) Below Stina but above Cornerstone D) Below them all

Daisan - absolute temperatures my friend. RT is 300K, Liquid Nitrogen is 77K, Liquid Helium is 4K, Superconductivity in Tin is 3.72K The lowest temperatures I was able to achieve in my apparatus 0.021 K Surprising to those who exist at room temperature but the world actually gets more interesting when you eliminate thermal noise - only then can you hear the quantum whispers of correlated many body physics.

Stingstim - the disconnect has nothing to do with where they are based. After all Brazil is ranked 96/180 in the world corruption index whilst South Africa is 25 places better at 71/180 ( https://www.transparency.org/country/BRA ) What it does have to do with is of course the market understanding of what each company does - the buyers here have not yet woken up to the fact that Vametco is making millions of dollars a profit each month, actually millions each week.

Buzz - one of the things I find most interesting is the specific example of a 1.4MW PV + 0.5MW/2.2MWh VRFB that is analysed in great detail - it looks like this is something that may have been done for a specific real customer. I have to say that was surprised that they could get a system availability (including rainy days) as high as 92% with an only marginally larger setup. That's pretty impressive being able to cover 11/12ths of the electrical demand.

Largo has a market cap of 693M USD debts of 200M USD thus an enterprise valuation of 893 M USD We have a a market cap of 263M USD and no debts to speak of

Gambit - this of course is quite precisely my field - the interplay between superconductivity and magnetism. In fact it was some of our experiments in Cambridge in the mid 90's on a field of materials called Heavy Fermions which paved the way for this generation of research. Rutgers did not have an experimental low temperature group to speak of at that time, but they did have theoretician Piers Coleman, also ex Cambridge, and brother of Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman, but that's a whole other story. Anyways the bottom line is that the idea that superconductivity and magnetism are somehow mutually incompatible was shown experimentally back then to be only true for classical phonon-mediated superconductivity - that's an old headline. What is interesting is the way that soft magnetic fluctuations can participate in more novel forms of superconductivity such as that mentioned in the article. I've been out of the game for about 10 years now so have now kept up with every single research paper but this is the first time I've seen Vanadium based compounds used in these types of experiments. Don't hold your breath for large applications of this research, usually the superconductivity happens at temperature 1/100 th that of room temperature and the samples under study can be below 1mg in weight (one of mine in a high pressure apparatus was so small as to only just be visible to the naked eye.)

Patience wins out

Or you could instead watch the england football team.

What makes you think that knuttie ?

LadyJennifer - you can start drooling again - there is what looks like a better research report on Flow Batteries here:- https://www.idtechex.com/research/reports/redox-flow-batteries-2018-2028-markets-trends-applications-000605.asp Alas it is still over 3 grand to get the report - alternatively you can see the author, Lorenzo Grande, for free talking about flow batteries here:-- https://www.thebushveldperspective.com/slides/slide/redox-flow-batteries-on-the-rise-10

Sanchez - indeed Vanadium oxide based electrodes were described as the leading technology for multivalent solid state batteries by Prof Bannerjee when gambitxjs and I met him and chatted over coffee at the last Vanitec energy storage meeting:- https://www.thebushveldperspective.com/blog/public-blog-1/post/vanitec-3rd-energy-storage-meeting-part-1-175

Cindercone - yes it is the specific energy density is too low

CG, in fact in the grid space Lithium-ion and Vanadium Flow are in direct competition. I don't care about electric vehicles because after all they are electric and need to get the electricity from somewhere and if you don't do something about Renewable energy and Grid scale energy storage then you can have 100% electric vehicles but get zero improvement on the actual problem of reducing CO2 and Methane emissions. We do of course have a high profile multi-billionaire promoter of Vanadium Flow battery technology in the figure of Robert Friedland. He, after all was Steve Jobs mentor, so somewhat more experienced that Mr Musk, who seems to spend most of his time trying to be Steve Jobs. Whilst Musk is selling flamethrowers and dreaming up his next publicity stunt Friedland is talking to the chinese government to get them to adopt 100MWh Vanadium Flow batteries as their technology of choice. Whilst Musk is telling wall street financiers to stop asking 'bonehead' questions Friedland is actually getting on with the job. Vanadium Flow does not need an Elon Musk to be successful. It will be successful because it is the best technology.