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Sorry JD, no amount of googling gives me a cycling theme associated with Lobotomised...... our trick cyclist(s) must be being kept quite busy today :-)

I wouldn't bank ( ;-) ) on the FCA doing much, the toothless leader has gone through the revolving door to the BoE and two more clones just got spat out of the same aforementioned revolving door:
https://www.abi.org.uk/events/2018/2/annual-conference-2018/megan-butler/
https://www.fca.org.uk/about/fca-board/christopher-woolard

Ex-spurt, where exactly in RK's post did he say £9.02 by Q2 2020?

Let me help you, he didn't. So stop making things up.

You are Boris Johnson and I claim my £5.
You'll be telling us you only have 3 children next...........

Not just PV Alfa, wind has an important pat in this!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-worlds-winds-are-speeding-up/

https://www.awea.org/wind-101/basics-of-wind-energy/wind-facts-at-a-glance

Interview (11MB file)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m9uxq8a8fij9uu4/FM_interview_20Nov19.mp3?dl=0

I can record it Faramog, will stick a link to it in a dropbox folder later.

BushBat?

I getting windier!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50464551

Capacity factor of the US wind fleet has risen by 7% in the past decade.

If wind speed trends continue, the current turbines could be generating 37% more.

We are going to need a load of storage!

Sharesaplenty, its more to do with solubility and stability than purely pH. The more vanadium you can dissolve the higher the potential power to weight ratio/

I'd imagine with what is happening down under at the moment, renewables is going to be one seriously hot political topic!

Alfa, were there any manufacturers working on ceramic / zeolite based membranes on display?
It looked like a promising area but research and news seems to have dried up.
Cheers

Nice find CC.

Pat48, assuming the electrolyte has started to degrade through gradual contamination, ingress of O2 leading to precipitation of vanadium oxides. Change in the oxidation state of vanadium leading to precipitation of unwanted valence vanadium compounds.
Fortunately vanadium's oxidation state is easily changed as shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l7H5498jas so recycling of vanadium in pretty much any form is relatively straightforward chemistry.

gkb47,

a bit unfair on XR, they have at least raised the issue in the public consciousness, we are after all the consumers of the energy directly or indirectly.

I think the big issue over recycling (of Li ion technology), having read the report that the daily fail so badly tried to paraphrase, there is the technology to recycle these cells automatically. The problem is, is that there is not a 'standard' design so the automation process is being hampered.
If the industry could sort its act out and agree on a standard then the recycling issue is at least partly solved.
Hell current cell sizes have been standardised, so no reason why new tech cells can't.

Of course a VRFB is, by design, one of the easiest to recycle. The electrolyte is pumped out, and can be readily converted back to fresh electrolyte. The membrane is probably not recyclable, but is a fairly low volume/mass of the kit anyway. The pumps will go into the current recycling stream. Pipework, assuming its PP, can be recycled (not that its likely to degrade) and the containers can simply be kitted back out as a new VRFB..... simples.

Maybe you could employ some soon to be unemployed politicians to do the cleaning for you........ zero hour / min wage obvs :-)

Lovely cycling up there!
(no I'm not 'Jaune'!!!)

@Jagadish
Wow! The whole of it?
Are you going to sweep up Consett afterwards and give Stanley a quick buff?

Page 10
Survey respondents reported an increased focus on Lithium-ion chemistry selection, weighing trade-offs between cost and storage module availability/deliverability, thermal stability and supplier reputation

A case for getting the message across?: Thermal stability????

Why do they think Li ion are thermally stable?

Will they so what they did with Afritin though?

Jase, Lady Diana Mug........... Express reader shuuurley?

Ex-Spurt you are invested in your own ego....... like Farage, shush and go away.

Aw bless.................. No one is forcing them to do this............ Tell you what, lets get them on zero hour contracts, give them the choice of what hours they want to work... net result they will be working more hours than they do no.

Do the hours spent down the boozer count as 'working time'?

I hate the daily fail...................

The full nature report is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1682-5
Despite their capitalisation of the words crisis and dumped, the report goes into great depth, discussing the various designs of cell, the current methods and suggesting ways forward to make recycling of materials in automated recycling plant.

I feel dirty, having clicked on that link :-)