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I now need to discover how LSE manage to move my words around!
"that it potentially dangerous" clearly has "is" missing?
"The link is confirmed there is nothing installed" and her is a superfluous "is" !

They resize the poxy panel and re-wrap your post to - how the cursor shifts to the wrong place I can't imagine - but it happens a lot! I tilt the keyboard to see the keys which means I cannot see the screen. Stuff has scrolled off the top very often - so I don't see the result of their handiwork!

I always thought it was my mouse moving and I blamed that! But that would not explain how the cursor returns to where it should be? As my "is" shift shows!

https://forums.mcafee.com/t5/Consumer-General-Discussions/McAfee-not-installed-but-get-pop-ups/m-p/494033#M27857

Very occasionally I visit a website and out of nowhere I get a warning from Macafee that it potentially dangerous? It is no hardship - I simply clicked something to ignore it.

Last nght , for lord knows what reason , I investigated how Macafee do it, because I uninstalled it when I left BT (who provided it for free).
The link is confirmed there is nothing installed on my machine by Macafee, and after following the advice, that is still the case!

The program ran for maybe 15 or 20 minutes and I rebooted as instructed. I have just logged back on, and my browsing is so fast it feels like I have a new computer!

If you have ever used Macafee, I strongly encourage you to read the link.
Will it last? I dunno , but I have every hope that this app has been been intercepting everything I do without my knowledge, and now it is gone.

On the TLOU front, ASX had a good nightt, up 12% to 5.5c and my IG page loaded 10 times faster!
I am so chuffed that I looked up Macafee - worth missing the match for because I doubt I'd have have done that if I hadn't dropped the bike and buggered my middle toe on the good leg! It isn't bad considering 29 stones in a confined space was oattacking me.

3-0 win missed by yours truly.
We end the year 4 points clear at the top!
2022 is going to be a great year on and off the pitch - at Dean Court and Lesedi.

Fulham have two games in hand - would they exchange them for 4 points?
I reckon so , they could gain 6 or not get any points!!!!

What a job Derby are doing - taking points off all the top teams in an effort to escape relegation after a huge points penalty that is out of order - they still have a mountain to climb despite their phenominal record against teams hoping for promotion to the Premier League!

Posh are up next - I'll see if I can buy some stabilisers for the bike before then :o)!!!!
At least I was able to have a pint of two!

I have been really daft. Decided to turn the motorbike around in my slippers, in the dark!
It went fine until I reversed it into the car port and could not find the side-stand with my slippers on. I eventually had to crouch to find it by hand! The bike is so heavy , and in a crouched position I had no chance of holding it if it did not remain balanced , it ended up flat on the ground! I got it up once , but the stand was still not playing the game, and down it went again.

Luckily my young strong neighbour was at home, and the two of us got it upright , and the stand was fine! I think I must have been pushing on the centre stand which is near impossible with sensible footwear in daylight.

I'll have to check it in the morning. There was a scrunchy noise which may have been the exhaust. Just checked the weight and it is 29 stones (408 lbs) - no wonder it was tiring!

http://www.justgiving.com/zarach

What a subject line! Just seen Bex Wilson, a Leeds schoolteacher, on the BBC.
One of her pupils was particularly snappy with the other children one day, so she took him to on side and asked him if he was sleeping ok? His reply astounded her, they did not have beds , food or anything else in their house - he was always tired!

Bed poverty was news to her , (and to me today) , and in her spare time she formed a charity called Zarach to provide a bed with a brand new mattress and bedding for the innocent victims. She also supplied some second hand furniture and an old tv and some food for that family. The mother of that boy was so transformed by Bex's actions, that , at some stage, she visited her at school, said she had a job, and wanted to repay Bex whatever she had spent on the family.

I am very wary of charities but this one is compelling!

I have just seen moagi's double in the film Sophie's Choice. He is Nathan!
Back on filter again , his word is not worth anything! He has proved how he thinks about pushing posts that he disapproves of down the page. He is so transparent anyone can see right through him.

Any post at the top of this board has his disapproved , unless it is the psychopath at the top.
Very disappointed with Sophie's choice , it was not what I remembered from years ago. 99% irrelevance and 1% the shocking punchline of the story. A retired GP was on the Chase and was asked for which film did Meryl Streep go to Poland to learn the lingo? He said he'd seen the film so knew the answer , and it was so distressing he'd never watch it again. Not many Oscar winners live up to my expectations (I slept through much of Out of Africa at the Leicester Square Odeon, when it was exclusive to London. My poor mother had me snoring on one side of her, and my Dad snoring on the other side! I treated them to a night out in London. That film was one of the choices! I won't be watching that again for nostalgic reasons.

Weather forecast is looking good for a motorbike ride this evening to watch the top of the league team in Bournemouth. If moagi usurps this post by the end of the match, you can expect a match report from me! I enjoyed Brighton's performance tonight - thoroughly deserved their late draw, and all 3 points , imho , could easily have been their's! Played 5-3-2 formation , brings back memories of teams being numbered from #1 to #11 with just one sub!

If you are viewing TLOU with a view to potentially putting a few shillings into shares - don't be put off by the apparent lack of interest on this chatroom or the current share price, which, imho,makes this share a strong buy.
If you are ready to look at the next share on your list of shares, please check out this one further and don't judge this book by it's cover.

In a nutshell ....
1. Our CEO has decades of experience in the gas and oil industry.
2. He switched to Gas from Oil in the early 2000's , managing two Australian companies (Arrow and Sunshine) before selling them off with profits of $1Bn and $3.5BN for shareholders on the ASX exchange.
3. Red tape in Australia and a lowish selling price of $10-$12 per unit put him off a further stab at a third CBM (Coal Based Methane, i.e. Gas) in his native country!
4. He settled on Botswana for its stable government, abundance of suitable coal to provide CBM, and a huge demand for imported power at much high prices. They were producing some power for themselves from expensive , dirty , diesel and selling it at the equivalent of $30 per unit!
5. He formed TLOU Energy (Tlou is the local name for an elephant), and listed us on the London Stock Exchange as well as ASX and the Botswana exchange.
6. He adopted the slowly, slowly , catch a monkey approach to develop TLOU. He aimed to produce gas in small quantities to prove the viability of CBM , to lower the cost of financing many expansions whilst keeping our costs to a minimum. Any profits would be help finance the many expansions!
7. He started with a site at Selemo , which produced gas very quickly and the excess water was removed withing a couple of months! Selemo was subject to royalties from the company we bought the mineral rights from!
8. A decision was made to change tactics! Instead of selling gas through pipelines (the Botswana diesel power is produced by dual-fuel generators , oil or gas , though gas has never been available), TLOU decided to generate electricty themselves!
N.B. Orapa (diamond mines) have us on their short-list to pipe gas to them one day!
9. Tlou were generating electricity for the site from 50k barrels of diesel - they saved those costs by modifying a gas to power generator for the Selemo gas and have been self sufficent on electricity since 2015 - the royalties were based on gas (12.5%) or electricity (3%) so I guess those are still payable.
10. Wisely , TLOU switched to one of our royalty-free sites , Lesedi (Mamba and Boomslang are the others). We expected Lesedi to perform as well as Selemo but there is much more water at Lesedi and it is taking forever to get it out , hindered by Covid , which ruled out drilling more wells to assist with dewatering.
11. It is a recognised rule of thumb, that more water = more cavities etc = more gas production when the water reaches low levels.
12. All permissions are granted, contractors are ready to erect the transmission lines from Lesedi to Serowe(Grid).

13. Botswana and Tlou have recently agreed a purchase plan for 10Mw of electricity power.
14.Our principal shareholder , a pension fund in Botswana, has also agreed financing at 7.5% (lower than Tlou's target of 8%) , it is worth doing you own research.

https://tlouenergy.com/gas-to-power/

Time to put your boots on, and fill them! imho of course!

NB If a post appear from a mrmoagi just ignore it - it will offer nothing but doubts about anything and everything , guaranteed! There is a filter on here - highly recommended!

1. imho - in my humble opinion - this does not mean factual or , indeed , lies.
2. chat - this involves a minimum of 2 people discussing a common issue.
e.g. How do you know that flares are a flaring because the people responsible are telling us so.
There are so many possible chats about mho , but nobody has challenged them lately.
Does that suggest that they all disagree? imho NO!

Here endeth the first lesson! Anthony Joshua is waiting to supply the next one - you will remember that one a bit better perhaps? A straight jab instead of a rabbit punch from behind?

Am I all you have to talk about? Time to repeat the original Messages for those who might invest in the New Year? You have succeeded in pushing it down the board - something you accuse me of doing to MM's posts - the irony of it!

As usual, your claims about me apply to yourself far more consistently!
How on earth do you know the first thing about me?

I'll tell you! You believe what I say about myself on here, how else?

Hiw do I know so much about what TG? Exactly that! I believe what he says in official statements and interviews. The same belief that Aussies had in him when he made $1BN and $3.5BN for them at Arrow and Sunshine without Covid and unexpected water in arid Australia!

You don't even accept he did that! You've repeatedly said there might have ionly been one success without identifying which story is bogus!
He is on the verge of a hat-trick in most people's eyes but you doubt everything TG says! If you don't believe in him why are you here? It makes no sense!

How do I know so such that you claim is imaginary?
How do you know that my brother -in - law is not on the TLOU board?
You know nothing about me, and SFA about anything else!

You clearly do not comprehend what TLOU, MM or I post or you would not have asked such dough-baked questions in your penultimate post. What do you call people who have ventured onto this chatroom (monologue) ? Newbies seems ok to me!

Instead of jousting on here why don't you take up boxing - I'll introduce you to Anthony Joshua who might just be a mate of one of my sons, an ex-kick boxer!

I think people on here believe I am honest , so to them , nod , nod , wink , wink! They'll sort the wheat from the chaff I hope. Meanwhile I need to wish my brother-in-law a Happy new year ;O) because I have a trip planned to Rio for New Year! Rio Ferdinand who used to live at my house in his days at Bournemouth?

We don't need a mastermind to answers your questions Moagi.
Even Poppy knows the answers!

I'll try to be civil , as you were , but if you asking serious questions then I am dumbfounded because any self-respecting investor who has been here over the past 2 years should know the answers.

For the newbies ...

1. Dewatering.
TLOU were dewatering Lesedi via 2 wells, numbered #3 and #4 (with an incomplete #5), prior to Covid-19.

#3 was developed first , but #4 was much more promising and was catching up with #3 within no time.

There was, however, a problem with the pair of them! Pressures were not equalising as expected and my layman's view is water was encroaching from #3 into #4 , or vice versa , at different times.

Covid-19 ruled out TLOU being able to supply the manpower and finances to sort them out.
To guarantee dewatering would continue within our budget, they closed off #3 and relied upon #4 alone.

If you read the RNS you will see dewatering and gas flows have improved (though we don't have the numbers before or after) during Danny's absence.

2. Flaring, as Moagi says. if Lesedi was shut down completely then the flares would not be burning!

If anyone requires proof that it is, all you have to do is read the mission statement between Synergen Met and TLOU!

Synergen Met (S.M.) will finance the prototype development in Brisbane and the delivery and installation at Lesedi if it all goes to plan!
TLOU will, (wait for it!) , PROVIDE THE GAS THAT IS BEING WASTED BY FLARING IT , and provide the electricity as well, as their part of the deal! The inference is that we will provide Solar powered Electricity for Green Hydrogen production, if not Blue Hydrogen from CBM powered electric might just be possible if they target less Hydrogen (a guess on my part).
I also guess will be partnering S.M. throughout the installation of the prototype.

MM , has stated that there is a skeleton crew maintaining dewatering and other things at Lesedi. This is so fundamental ..... I would expect newbies to know most of that!

As to the permission for poles (and wires?) I think TLOU have said (quite a few months ago) that a small number of sites needed to be signed up. They did not anticipate a problem because the sites in question are administered by bodies that have already signed up many of our sites.

I am using program IE7CLONE from
https://www.codeproject.com/articles/16972/working-with-the-web-browser-control-in-visual-stu
which is teaching me all sorts of techniques! I think they start with 8 items when navigating to an URL , and then parse every component from the html as it downloads.
It rose to 878 for page 1 of this chat. I think they know how many to expect to arrive - one of my bugbears was synchronising download start and finish. The coding is brilliantly commented to help modifications to be added. Well done Tom Maxwell!

Happy new year everyone - I'll be busy on my version of IE7CLONE to r

I did it myself, of course, and the repayments are 100,782 pm for 5 years (with no holiday).
The 2 years holiday accrues interest for 18 months , and then we start a 6 monthly repayment schedule , bringing 18m up to 2 years for payment no 1.

The figures are USD, AUD or Sterling so these are no more than illustrations of the trend.
The scales make it look easy to go forward - we just need thae dewatering to complete , and gas to flow, OR a big OR , the Hydrogen project to come good!!!! Failing both, we can go into Solar!

How many start-ups have options like that, plus Mamba to Orapa gas only is not dead yet!
Dewatering Mamba might be nearer to Selemo watering - makes me salivate!!!!
Our worst option looks really feasible to me - how many companies are in that position.

$10m pa earnings is $833k pm or £448k pm (for AUD) or £620k pm (USD).

"Normally you repay £100,782 per month. If you regularly overpay £100,782, you'd be mortgage free 2 years and 8 months earlier. Your total payment over this period would be £5,466,756."

Guardian cryptic today had a funny clue.
Answer. 13 PANGLOSSIC
Clue. Fear overwhelms German defeat, taking a very optimistic view (10)
Parses. PANIC ("fear") overwhelms G (German) + LOSS ("defeat")

If I could change my moniker here - I'd be Panglossic in a shot!
Panglossian definition, characterized by or given to extreme optimism, especially in the face of unrelieved hardship or adversity.
What is the antonym of panglossic? Cannot find one, but I suggest "mrmoagi" who is hardship and adversity rolled into one. He went to the "adversity of hard knocks" the only one which accepted people with his IQ!

Bournemouth are back on top by a point from Fulham who are unable to play Reading tomorrow. We play Cardiff on Thursday which will give Fulham 2 games in hand!

With the speculation on gas prices for 2022 more than doubling what a time to be a gas producer? I saw moagi is talking up a decade for TLOU to be established!

Once gas is flowing commercially at double today's price the incentives and practicalities of expanding production are going to be amazing! The cost of production will not be rising , just think how quickly your mortgage would have cleared if you could afford to double your monthly repayments.

(For moagi who probably does not see the relevance).
A quick example.
Mortgage of 130k @ 3.5% p.a. over 25 years would be £651 per month!
Doubling up your £651 payments reduces 25 years by 15 years and a month!
Total repaid drops from 195k to 153k
Try can try it out on 7.75% on 5M and 5y for yourself using
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/mortgages/mortgage-overpayment-calculator/

Tlou won't be doing that, of course , the extra profit will go into producing CBM electricity, solar energy, Hydrogen and Carbon, and CBM gas as our master (TG) and his team see fit! Martin Lewis's calculator is not suitable for buying 2 or 3 or 4 houses!

I question whehter there will be one takeover.
I foresee three or four divisions of TLOU ultimately.
1. The original TLOU - Lesedi CBM powered electricity to Botwana and the SAPP grid.
2. Solar power which may be merged or kept independent of CBM power.
3. Hydrogen and Carbon , with partners Synergen Met, depending how it goes.
4. Mamba gas pipeline to Orapa - supplying gas to Orapa and maybe others.

They will evolve over an unpredictable period - I can see them fund raising independently unless TLOU is earning enough that some do not need external funding?

There is a village idiot in most chatrooms - Moagi is ours (as you can see for yourself).
He has omitted nationalisation of the CBM industry by ex-President Kharma after his military coup to grab our unsuitable CBM (the quality of which he questions, despite it being flared for over 6 years), and a myriad of other pieces of nonsense including the other preferred bidder following a succesful Request for Proposal (RFP). They were rejected when asked to supply a Request for Quotation (RFQ) and Tlou scored very highly!

Why did he post today? Because he saw Chantecler's post , good news to the rest of us , but not to our troll.

"Out of sight, out of mind ", HB2.
Those who are seeking news of TLOU cannot find it much of the time. So what are the chances of us becoming a household name with the general public?
CBM electricity and transmission lines won't raise the roof either. What will change everything , imho , is news of local (UK, Botswana and Australia) TLOU shareholders making a few pulas on their shares , and in Botswana , news of their electricity supply becoming more reliable from a cleaner source of power.
But for me, news of a successful Hydrogen (and Carbon bi-product) project could make the news first . Green Hydrogen from the partnership between Tlou and Synergen Met , at so little cost for each, will make major news around the world.

{for the unitiated, Tlou have been flaring enough CBM gas over the the last 18 months to theoretically produce Hydrogen using Synergen Met's new revolutionary equipment! Solar power is needed to make the Hydrogen green , (CBM power makes it blue) , so for the cost of a few Solar panels TLOU can honour their side of the partnership. S.M. are building a prototype in Australia for delivery to Lesedi in 2022 IF ALL GOES TO PLAN. If S.M. fail to deliver their side, our Solar energy plans may have merely started a tad earlier than originally planned. Hardly any risk for us????? }

2022 is going to be exciting on several fronts.

Selemo is the nearest available point at which we can join the national and Southern African regional grid. The contractors are ready to produce the transmission lines and sub-stations at each end (2 contractors).

If you have time , TLOU also have serious plans for Solar power and Hydrogen and Carbon production - this is , imho , a very exciting company. Many of us have been invested for 6 or 7 years at up to 17p ...... how lucky are you?

If you are viewing TLOU with a view to potentially putting a few shillings into shares - don't be put off by the apparent lack of interest on this chatroom or the current share price, which, imho,makes this share a strong buy.
If you are ready to look at the next share on your list of shares, please check out this one further and don't judge this book by it's cover.

In a nutshell ....
1. Our CEO has decades of experience in the gas and oil industry.
2. He switched to Gas from Oil in the early 2000's , managing two Australian companies (Arrow and Sunshine) before selling them off with profits of $1Bn and $3.5BN for shareholders on the ASX exchange.
3. Red tape in Australia and a lowish selling price of $10-$12 per unit put him off a further stab at a third CBM (Coal Based Methane, i.e. Gas) in his native country!
4. He settled on Botswana for its stable government, abundance of suitable coal to provide CBM, and a huge demand for imported power at much high prices. They were producing some power for themselves from expensive , dirty , diesel and selling it at the equivalent of $30 per unit!
5. He formed TLOU Energy (Tlou is the local name for an elephant), and listed us on the London Stock Exchange as well as ASX and the Botswana exchange.
6. He adopted the slowly, slowly , catch a monkey approach to develop TLOU. He aimed to produce gas in small quantities to prove the viability of CBM , to lower the cost of financing many expansions whilst keeping our costs to a minimum. Any profits would be help finance the many expansions!
7. He started with a site at Selemo , which produced gas very quickly and the excess water was removed withing a couple of months! Selemo was subject to royalties from the company we bought the mineral rights from!
8. A decision was made to change tactics! Instead of selling gas through pipelines (the Botswana diesel power is produced by dual-fuel generators , oil or gas , though gas has never been available), TLOU decided to generate electricty themselves!
N.B. Orapa (diamond mines) have us on their short-list to pipe gas to them one day!
9. Tlou were generating electricity for the site from 50k barrels of diesel - they saved those costs by modifying a gas to power generator for the Selemo gas and have been self sufficent on electricity since 2015 - the royalties were based on gas (12.5%) or electricity (3%) so I guess those are still payable.
10. Wisely , TLOU switched to one of our royalty-free sites , Lesedi (Mamba and Boomslang are the others). We expected Lesedi to perform as well as Selemo but there is much more water at Lesedi and it is taking forever to get it out , hindered by Covid , which ruled out drilling more wells to assist with dewatering.
11. It is a recognised rule of thumb, that more water = more cavities etc = more gas production when the water reaches low levels.
12. All permissions are granted, and contractors are ready to erect the transmission lines from Lesedi to Serowe (and

13. Botswana and Tlou have recently agreed a purchase plan for 10Mw of electricity power.
14.Our principal shareholder , a pension fund in Botswana, has also agreed financing at 7.5% (lower than Tlou's target of 8%) , it is worth doing you own research.

https://tlouenergy.com/gas-to-power/

Time to put your boots on, and fill them! imho of course!

Our's was man of the match - says it all?
is the buffer shorter?