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Seeing the arch brings loads of thoughts to mind of possible uses but without knowing the structural strength of the structure difficult. Could this be used to print structural frames for aircraft, or bridges or print monocoque body shells for cars or even boats the possibilities seem endless.

That is a shame. I read somewhere about an Aussie company working with Sidney University that could make hydrogen by pumping natural gas through iron Ore making hydrogen and the waste product was graphite whch is also useful ans has value.

Interesting post so they are going to strip the hydrogen from coal so that's a hydro-carbon it says the hydrogen is going to Japan but where is the carbon going? Probably into the atmosphere. How is this reducing emissions?

The last few days have seen very turbulent price movement and a very significant increase here and I am disturbed that the company has not seen fit to clear up what is happening. I want some light shed; at first I thought it may be a pump and dump operation as there were a few buyers and many small sellers.
Other than that some leak has occurred and those in the know are piling in.
Also given the track record here and the proximity of the October watershed when the cash runs out is it pumping the share price for another cash call.

Hi Jolly
All very interesting. My comments were only on EVs or pure electric vehicles Hybrids were at best teasers and are perhaps the worst of both worlds.
Your comments regarding charging are at best ill informed, the vast majority of EV owners have or will have their own home charger and will use that to charge the vehicle (using cheap electricity at night) the public charging infrastructure is therefore hardly relevant except for longer journeys and the range problems you see again largely irrelevant the vast majority of all car users do less than 100 miles a day easily within the range of current EVs anecdotal evidence indicates that EV users yes actual users only need to charge their vehicles two or three times a week. Done at home overnight when length of charging scarcely matters at all.
Your thinking on speed of uptake may be some way off as well, truly disruptive technologies have been taking off quicker and quicker see Tony Seba he's done a lot of research into the uptake of disruptive technology.
There are other reasons why EVs take up is not as fast as may be warranted there are a lot of ICE vehicle manufacturers that have huge vested interest in not producing promoting or making EVs especially when like the Chevrolet Bolt they are losing an estimated 9 thousand dollars on everyone they sell Chevrolet only makes the vehicle as a compliance car so that they can sell their ICE cars in places like California. There is huge pent up demand for EVs and long waiting lists to buy new ones. Heaven knows how much the likes of Mr Ford would have given to get 400,000 orders for a new Ford car each paying a 1000 dollar deposit for a car that was not even in production at the time.
Volkswagen are a fairly big automotive manufacturer and they are investing really big money in EVs because within 6 years they are planning not to making anything else, I doubt that it is being done on a whim.

Hi me again.
While I'm at it another very salient point about EVs is that they last much longer than ICE vehicles in the order of three to five times as long so that automatically reduces the overall carbon footprint as opposed to ICE vehicles which need to be replaced more often and when it comes to keeping one on the road there is no comparison at all, in the motor there are virtually no moving parts to wear out break or corrode the EV has regenerative braking which slows down the vehicle, in some EVs it is so good there is almost no need for conventional brakes at all so they last much longer and maintenance costs are around 15 times less than for ICE vehicles.
GO onto YOUTUBE and find FULLY CHARGED live and learn about the fuure. The futures bright it's electric.

Hi Jolly and Blade
I hope this works this time.
You are looking in the wrong places and seem hellbent on rubbishing electric vehicles.
The study you refer to is a German Study about German conditions where most of the power is produced by really dirty coal fired power stations.
Producing electric vehicles does not need to produce all those emissions if the power is from clean renewable (and incidentally cheaper) sources solar wind hydro geothermal (possibly even nuclear on emissions) and the power to run them is the same then emissions are much less.
Instead of looking at Germany look at Norway where there are lots of EV's and lots of clean renewable energy oh and Norway has lots of oil and gas but they are selling it to mugs like you instead of polluting their own country with it.

Thanks Barchid and Fairdealer
We seem to be on the same wavelength my chief problem with these estate issues and staffing concerns is that they do not seem to be being addressed. If you bought a leaky old house you would sort out the roof and drains before building the new extension.
If the board see the future as being in new resort pubs and lodges that's fine just sell off the old worn out and shabby pubs or redevelop the sites into flats or offices because they are not doing any favours for the company image..

Hi Jolly
You speak with all the conviction and assurance of someone who has never seen let alone tried an electric vehicle, come back Lobby Ludd all is forgiven. If it was left to you I am sure we would still all be walking everywhere or at best on donkey (because they're better).

As an EV owner and user I can safely say I will not be buying another fossil fueled vehicle because for nearly everyone EV.s are much better.

There seems to be a lot of variability in the standard of Marstons estate with posters commenting on standard of offerings and the estate in their neck of the woods locally in Lincoln they have Woodcocks a large family restaurant pub with a new recently opened motel facility food and drink usually very good service service variable depending on time of day and day of week but high turnover of staff and amazingly on a recent visit no designated bar person. Also the Lincolnshire Poacher a smaller older restaurant pub food was good last time I went in but the place is very run down and in dire need of refurbishment; threadbare carpet with aged gaffer tape holding it down really shabby non to clean tatty furniture and unkempt outside areas it is a shame because it appears to be well located and has a decent sized car park and is in a fairly densly populated area where a good well run pub restaurant should do well. Both sides of the coin here less than five miles apart I would hazard a guess that people who try the Lincolnshire Poacher may well be put off from trying other Marstons Pubs so leaving it as it is is not a good idea it needs refurbishing or selling off or closing.

Greetings Aquae
Good post very informative but do you have any idea where they are getting the graphene from? It looks like they are using it for a coating on the top side of the panel. I am sure I have seen where graphene is being used to increase the generation performance of solar panels maybe someone is looking into combining both features for a double whammy.

Greetings Dominator
I would have to take exception with your blanket statements. Our greatest allies as you put it are blatantly not free traders unless it is is on their terms (The free trade deal they were negotiating with the EU no deal unless we agreed to GM modified grain Hormone injected beef and chlorine washed chicken) and no country in the world has stolen more intellectual property than the Americans there was one on the box a couple of days ago saying an American had invented television.
The huge trade imbalances and unemployment in Western countries is due in no small measure to the rich and powerful (men like Donald Trump) closing down factories and workshops in western countries and exporting the jobs to lower cost countries like Taiwan and Korea then India and China and now places like Vietnam and Haiti.

Surely if we are the largest producer of wafers and world leaders in the technology and the move to much faster 5G is demanded by customers then other producers are going to need wafers to make the devices and where are they going to get wafers from?
It will be interesting to see Trumps reaction to other non Chinese manufacturers building 5G devices.
It will be even more interesting how the EU and our own government react to Trumps directives regarding 5G suppliers.

I am a new poster here but I am amazed that there is so little real knowledge about Electric Vehicles and the ramifications of the widespread uptake of the technology.
Martina makes some points about such vehicles and how they must be really difficult to live with and charge and how they will impact the electricity supply.
I will attempt to clarify the situation. I have an electric car which does between 150ish and 180ish miles to a charge depending on weather conditions temperature etc. Like most owners I have a charging unit at home and can set the unit to charge the vehicle on cheap rate electricity during the night. Again like most vehicle owners electric or otherwise most of my journeys are around my local area so I have no need to charge the vehicle other than at my own home charging station. Incidentally there are quite a lot of public charging station around (many of them free to use at present) and many more are in the pipeline Shell for instance will have rapid charging units in everyone of their service stations by 2020.
As for where will the electricity come from, well for the immediate future no extra capacity will be required and it will be quite a while before we have millions of electric vehicles that will require additional generating capacity. Martina does not seem to realise that electricity is made as it is required therefore demand for it goes up and down. This is a big problem for the industry because they need the capacity to meet peak demand even when demand is much less than at peak there is very little storage capacity in the system. How does this affect electic vehicles - well electric vehicles have a huge batteries many with 40 kilowat hours some with up to 80 kilowat hours this storage capacity coupled to a "smart grid" could be used to meet peak demand when the veicles are not being driven giving the grid the storage capacity it has always needed but never had. Pie in the sky this is not it is being worked on right now. So electric vehicles could quite easily be saviors of the electricity generators and enable much more efficient use of current generating capacity to be made without the need for further capacity for quite some time.
Please do you own research a good place to start You Tube Fully Charged.