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The pipeline will presumably follow the route that a vulture flies rather than follow the road (if there are no other roads) but Mamba is closer to Orapa than both Lesed and Kodibelengi.

Also the town of Orapa is north of the power station , which further reduces the distance , but it looks like 5 or 6 marathons or more? At least gas pipelines will suffer less degredation than Lesedi-Serowe and born out in this article...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004221014668

Orapa is a non-runner imho, I like CBM power and Solar power to Serowe and Hydrogen potential far better!

Got soaked on the way home from the match (double over Brum) - had to keep the visor up so my specs were getting wet. Rain started immediately after our win. 3 games in 6 days , poor old Poppy will think I have a new girl-friend. Local Derby for us, with Saints coming on Friday in the Premier League Cup, whatever that is!

Saint's third team v Cherry's second team I expect!

Crypto is worth consideration merely because delivering their gas locally is simpler/cheaper than a pipeline to Orapa. And Orapa is likely to want a limited amount of gas. That might be good or bad for us? Orapa set up time will be limited and then will be left to run independently from further Mamba expansions would be directed towards CBM power , our Hydrogen plant or conceivably Crypto usage..

I don't believe TG will want to do renege on our partnerships with SM and BPC and their dependents?
Especially SM which is a marriage made in heaven for both parties.
We can use the Hydrogen ourselves or sell it whichever makes best sense.
If Solar proves to be lucrative , Hydrogen powered backup during periods when there is no sun is imho 100% preferable to BATTERY technology though both are inefficient.

Disposal of batteries will become a huge eco problem if electricity/batteries beats Hydrogen powered vehicles. Three cheers for JCB and Toyota!

Cannot argue with that, Whizzer , based on the CBM power plans.
But consider the Xmas quarter this year.

"4Q22
SS -Electrical and mechanical works
TL - Stringing, tension, and regulation
Gas-to-power - Purchase of power generators
H2 - Initial results from the Hydrogen & Solid Carbon Prototype"

If it pans out , and we get Hydrogen and Carbon in 2022 , the chances of our shares being single figures is possibly gonna be as slim as Twiggy in her prime! The incentive to open up Mamba to SM will be enormous. Our partnership with SM will become a privilege. And Lesedi will revert to being an exclusive CBM production site, to the relief of many of us on here. Will the pension fund back both divisions? Why not? They will both be virtually derisked but which will make sensible money first? The Botswana TT will be all set :O)

I see MFM is thinking along similar lines - but are there enough drills to hire in Botswana?
How serious MFM was is not clear - mentioning Crypto suggest not very serious, but the sp needs good Hydrogen results to improve before 2023.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AnaMLNUZSnukHD7FQTWpQW3YuMfDryqc/view?usp=sharing

Nice one Scott , the following video in your link shows why our dewatering is taking so long.

My new car insurer advises me that the price rose by £5 , not on the policy which stayed the same, but because they increased their admin charge by £5 (which they waived by honouring their earlier quote). Getting an early quote therefore worked for the wrong motive.

Scott Parker got it wrong last night. The first team was on the subs bench with only 5 allowed!
I'd have started with them (we play Birmingham on Wednesday) and taken 5 off if the game permitted it.
With 82% possession we could not score with three January signngs and boys but I loved the Boreham Wood manager who said that leading 1-0 was all he wanted , even if they'd lost 10-1 , and on to Everton they go with the same philosophy. Travers would have saved their winning goal. A loanee in goal for his first appearance behind a defence with two new defenders leading it , invited the result imho.

I thought I'd put my keys in my helmet in a locked box, so missed the start of the game looking for them.
I abandoned the bike for a long queue ,and prepared for a £60+ taxi ride home after the game to get the spare key.

In the queue I remembered the hidden pocket from my petrol station episode going to the last night game.
Eureka!
The unlocked bike was still there after the match! Shame about the result.

Strategically the plans look good. 4Q22 gas to electric generator covers H2 setbacks.
Whatever state H2 is in, we'll be able to make use of the TL and SS (lines and substations).

If we have committed to solar prior to a H2 setback, no sweat, we can send that power to Serowe instead and earn some cash from it earlier, and if the setback is early enough to abandon the solar (for a while) we save that cost for ongoing work!

TG plays a magnificent game of chess - we lost a few key pieces thru Covid - but we are still in the game with enough money in the bank to keep going for quite a while! The 2 years granted by the pension fund before we start repaying is totally compatible with his schedule, however that actually transpires.

He has pawns one square from becoming queens (or knights) from H2, Orapa, or Crypto.

Nice to see a relaxed Whizzer posting. Like the bloke said as he passed a 5th floor window, having fallen from the top floor of a skyscraper, "so far so good" (Magnificent Seven, Steve McQueen).

IG report 2.17% down on ASX but net buys exceeded sells as canbe seen here from very few trades.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16bqXrsEqYVDYFAJ4WeZb_pf9d0bQWuR2/view?usp=sharing

Imho, not a announcement that is more than that, I feel it is a very positive RNS leaving room for all possible routes forward. #3 and #4 back to pre-covid levels of dewatering, improved gas flows , and SM not that much behind schedule on their side of our Hydrogen partnership. The delay into next year for buzzing electricity up to Serowe gives us a chance to fulfil our commitments to the partnership, i.e. flared gas redirected for SM use, and generators installed and/or solar panels depending how SM progress!

"Schedule-
Date
Detail
1Q22
TL & SS - Mobilisation of plant & equipment, site establishment, procurement and engineering
2Q22
H2 - Hydrogen & Solid Carbon Protype unit to be completed
TL & SS - Commence installation of electricity poles
Gas-to-power - Ground works on Central Processing Facility
3Q22
H2 - Hydrogen & Solid Carbon Prototype to arrive at Lesedi
SS - Civil works, steel structures assembly, installation, and earthing
Solar - Purchase and installation of Solar PV
4Q22
SS -Electrical and mechanical works
TL - Stringing, tension, and regulation
Gas-to-power - Purchase of power generators
H2 - Initial results from the Hydrogen & Solid Carbon Prototype
1H23
TL & SS - Practical completion
TL & SS - Testing and commissioning
2H23
TL & SS - Handover to Tlou
Gas-to-power - Sale of first electricity to BPC"

Irrespective of the success/failure from SM I think we can forget about finding the cash for options - June 12th looks unlikely to make the prices suitable. I wonder if TLOU have the power to retain the options at a different date, but it is TLOU's loss rather than ours. We can seemingly buy below 4p to our heart's content for quite a while!

The change that is most likely, imho again, is the H2 Solar panels? IF the gas is sufficient to support CBM power and Hydrogen tests , we may not need Solar at that stage? Unless GREEN hydrogen is essential to our plans??

The Hydrogen possibilty has delayed us by up to a year , but most of that year is also attributable to Covid so it is still a phenominally cheap entry into the Hydrogen business for both partners! And nothing rules out Crypto supplies if that goes anywhere! It is only at the talking stage , I don't understand the hostility it arouses.
The Crypto business has sfa to do with us - it is merely a potential outlet for our gas that won't have to be delivered to Orapa IF anything comes from it. Orapa and Crypto's are not part of our plans - they are pie in the sky imho! But that could change in the next decade!

Download the link file, and "open with" Windows Medis player is my preferred viewing of mp4 files.
It may loop so will need a cancel to stop it repeating.

Not self-delusional at all!
Most people will hopefully realise I don't care if if I'm filtered by any or all of you.
LSE is my diary that I can search with my search engine! And , of course , I can search your posts too!

My first engine follows.
I remember you saying i should start my own blog a while back!
You are not in my default search list , so it adds you, and seache 50 pages of 25 posts in you history!
I hope you can see how it helps me find what I want!
I did not know there was this repat (within 50 pages) but I might have found the original with 100 pages searched!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GcxyBtMj9i0TrkZoZzEfzsf4ADk8DfGx/view?usp=sharing

Nothing remarkable about the two of us MFM.
We crossed horns on ADVFN until I stopped posting there.
He was banned on LSE so until VPN stopped them identifying hi,.
So he stopped harrassing me there (I only use their trading pages) and started here!
He is totally filtered on my original search engine - absolutely no sign of him , in green or any other colour!
The LSE filters the message content but still annoys me with a green entry for each of his posts!

My first search engine became very difficult to maintain, and virtually impossible to expand because I was using MS events. RNS are in two stages, an index page leading to individual RNS pages! And for some shares "price monitoring" floods the index!

My new engine is streamlined so one routine handles url address, pre-loads and final loads, before removing all the repetive stuff t provide the nitty gritty content!

I haven't filtered anyone on that and it is my current project!

See for yourself, and dont bother replying because I'm filtering you as you should have filtered me!
I'm getting close to navigating after lots of problems to produce the streamlined version! I'm working on it to stop myself going mad, not to drive others mad!

This is work in progress but I.m getting there, and you might see why moagi is filtered elsewhere but here!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TCo6nkZq8TiTf6THbEFwHRbova4rfQvC/view?usp=sharing

" known more " changed to " never " ? how?

From my Siberian link yesterday ...
"BTC Mining Close to Peak Levels

The entire bitcoin network consumes more than 73 terawatts per year, making BitRiver still a relatively small mining farm. The Bratsk hydroelectric plant produces a total of above 22.5 TW/h electricity per year, used for other industrial purposes, but could, in theory, supply a much larger bitcoin mining facility."

And you ask why MM thinks a power production facility is talking to Crypto miner who has shown an interest in our potential gas reserves????? No wonder Tony does not waste his time explaining the obvious to utter tools - tools who have never than Tony for 4 years!

You need a better shrink moagi but the NHS cannot find one for terminal stupidity I guess?

Imade a breakthrough in my attempt to handle multiple web sites from a single subroutine which does not exit until it completes while it navigates to url , loop until download is complete, and then weeds unwanted content.

Previous version, did all the processing at the .DocumentComplete event, which became so complicated and clumsy!

I clear my display area with "about:blank" and display informational text by setting non-html text (as I do with the weeded html).

With .Navigating and .Navigated events in place , I discovered that sending non-html to the screen ALSO SEEMS TO SET THE URL TO "about:blank" and in the new version once that happens, new URLS are not accepted!

It is good to talk, I have twigged what is happening!!!! I switch the URL successfully (debug shws that) but if the non-html text is still in the buffer it is superceded by "about:blank" automatically!!!!

So it is not the events (all are missing now) at all , it is non-html in the display buffer!

The old version must clear it by pure fluke amongst all the options. I can delete this now but it might help someone who dabbles in programming.
Explaining to others needs a slower thought process - in an office environment it often worked as well as having someone else's knowledge to call upon. Once I prove this theory I'll weed moagi posts which was a complication I have not wanted to add until I got this running for all the options.

A good day , if I have opened up all the events it is going to be a lot easier , fingers crossed!

Donk has revealed how he has zilch to offer this board, he is a suitable case for treatment (Morgan) and could well be in a nut house reading this board 24/7 imho.

If everyone filtered him he might just leave us in peace (as he has onADVFN).

Moagi , there is no market!

25 trades in a week is not a market! A barrow boy would pack up and find something else to do if that was all the trading he managed! Only 5 of the 25 were above a value of £2000 (just over 100k shares).

I don't think local inhabitants need the services of a crypto mine somehow?

https://bitcoinist.com/newly-launched-siberian-bitcoin-mining-farm-russia-largest/

How many of you consider 2.1p to 2.3p to be it?

I don't! The maudlin apology for the prices of the available shares reflect what a few shareholders in the UK , a very few in Australia , are prepared to accept for their shares. Their numbers might counted in units, tens or might even stretch into the hundreds. The buyers surely exist in their thousands!

Try buying from those thousands and you'll get the actual selling prices!

Whizzer's price seems to be around the 6p or 7p mark , mine a lot more!

It is a fatuous price because we'd be mad not to sell at those prices in order to buy back at 2p, 3p or even more!
How many we get at those prices? That is very dubious, there should not be enough fools out there to replace many of our larger holdings.

Once news breaks we'll see how much the thousands want for their shares! The days of 2p and 3p are limited I hope!

I know it is embarrassing to be way out of pocket , but at least the interest available from bank accounts has not offered an obvious alternative. And many other alternatives have associated risks! At least TLOU are well and truly in play afaik! At least I do not have to justify my actions to anyone.

If you sell your house at auction for £600k , what is important?
Is it that £600k , or is it the starting bid , whether that was £50k, £100k £200k or £500k????

This is why Tlo's share price today does not matter to me! It would be nice to see the price rising and never looking back (like a house auction) but it will happen one day. Until the auctioneer is on the stand we can only wait for news of the possiblities! My money is on Hydrogen but that could be wishful thinking - it has the most immediate returns imho of course! BUT the bonus is it only needs to viable for the share price to take off. With a strong share price, a move to Mamba for a production plant leaves Lesedi available for CBM power production and the poles and wires. If Hydrogen is a non-starter then we will still be free to expand Lesedi albeit a few months later? We won't have to fund Mamba either!

And if we do move Hydrogen to Mamba I reckon the company will be strong enough to finance the move!
In short , TG has it all under control!!!!!

Whizzer , my last post inadvertently explained your isuue I think.

You want pepsi but we have cola :O) Coke is coal of course.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016236116309309
Does not cover the problem of silt blocking the channels if it is moved in bulk so I stop at the problems!

"Abstract

In coal-bed methane (CBM) reservoirs, gas is mainly stored in matrix as adsorbed gas and the cleats are commonly saturated with water. To produce the adsorbed gas, the cleat pressure should be reduced to critical desorption pressure by dewatering first. But how to dewater more efficiently is a difficult issue. Apparently low dewatering rate is uneconomical due to excessive development times required. But from the field experiences, high dewatering rate will bring more problems ......"

Time to sit down, take your dummy out of your mouth, and think moagi!
The coal is saturated with water, yes?
Saturated means it cannot absorb more water?
So your wishing wells which remove surface water (from the surface down to 500m) have little benefit?
Your ideas are the equivalent to BP draining the North Sea to get at North Sea OIl.
Lateral wells are more akin to BP's rigs i.e. get as close to the source as possible and start from there!
It all happens on the sea bed (our cola seams in Botswana).

I remember an article stating vertical wells are not cost effective below 400m so...

I hope that completes the one times table for you. Only 11 more tables left for you!

Now stop posting rubbish and let me get on with my search of Kenmare's RNS , all 122 of them!!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HxmcsiiNahi8VGQweAVbTqWaaE0tt0KB/view?usp=sharing

Show us the TLOU content moagi! I'll give you £100 for each one, if you give me £50 for each one that does not!

BS about the amount of water in a vertical well i.e. the traditional method of getting water - just dig down , hang a bucket on a rope , drop the bucket into the water, lift a bucketful.

Do they use that method to collect gas???????? You plonker!

TLOU drill along the coal seam for a few hundred yards to make a channel with coal 360 degrees in every direction????? All they can find in those channels is gas, coal dust and pesky water that is hardly going to be drinkable! The water is an one off for months or years and then all there is is gas!!!!!!

Can you not understand the obvious????

Now tell us why your wishing well is the better option!!!!