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A project using giant Tesla Inc. batteries was used to help balance supply and demand in Britain’s electricity market for the first time this week.
The plant is made up of six Tesla megapack batteries that can store energy from renewable sources to be used at times of peak consumption. The National Grid Electricity System Operator uses the balancing market to fine tune supply and demand to make sure they match exactly. In years to come growing battery capacity will add flexible back up for grid operators as the use of fossil fuels is completely phased out.

patanj It is not often I agree with Arse17, but just filter them, I have. It makes the board a lot more readable. If you cannot be bothered to filter then just ignore, but don't reply. I have seen this behaviour across many LSE forums and if they are ignored they usually go away having lost their "audience".

Another saddo with a major holding in MKS and watching Ocado make hay by bailing them out of their self-inflicted slump. I suggest a more diversified portfolio might ease the vitriol and let you sleep soundly at night. OCDO is just one of 30 or so shares I hold long term, so exposure to any individual company is low. I do not and have never considered holding MKS.

Carnival — announced in a third-quarter earnings filing that it plans to sell 18 cruise ships in 2020, which amounts to 17 percent of the company’s ships.

So what? Not short in RR are they? All big institutions hold shorts, but it is where they are placed and not their number/ratio that is relevant here surely.

If RR is such a great short why is it that those hedgies that do this for a living are not crawling all over it at present? I do not detect a great rush to short the stock with only 1.7% loaned out to two institutions at present? Contrast that with Sainsbury (8.4% and 7), Weir Group (5.4% and 6), Bab**** (5.2% and 3) and others. They tend to hunt in packs, but I detect no feeding frenzy towards RR as yet.

Ian Cowie is still very positive on FEVR in yesterday's Sunday Times article and I tend to agree with him that their low overhead business model (outsourcing production), lack of corporate debt, 39% growth in US sales and steadily growing dividend bodes well for the future. I would not hesitate to add more to my holding should this drop below £20 a pop, but I am already holding a large position from a few years ago.

Date of committee now 22/10/2020 - is this a joke? ..............Errrr No, I think UKOG is only the joke here :-)

Yes you are correct. Does that not count as shorting a stock?
In a word NO it does not constitute shorting the stock it is just what it says on the tin a bet or wager ie. gambling. Unlike true shorting your position can have zero influence on the SP. I suggest you do a bit or reading up on how the market works.

This is a highly defensive income stock and as such over the past 10 years I have no complaints either about the yield or capital retention. Perhaps you are mistaking NG. for something listed on AIM?

Static: Oh well.......easy come, easy go..... as they say in Belgrade

I am in em all as they say (AZN, GSK, SN, ROCHE etc, but will not be selling AZN any time soon. This has been way undervalued since the derisory Pfiizer offer and the market bet heavily against our Pascal achieving the turnaround he promised based on a focus on Oncology. Well he has proven them all mightily wrong. As for a dividend cut where has that idea come from? No chance in my opinion as yield is now only 2.24%.

Look it could be worse you could be holding Carnival. At least the depreciation of grounded airline fleets is not going to result in the majority of them being hauled off to the Indian coast for scrap! Sea air is the killer factor in recommissioning costs for ocean liners, even the soft furnishings are US after a few months of inactivity as is all of the internal plumbing!

Yeh? Sure about that? 1.25p on a 50% spread don't make me laugh :-)

'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!

Interesting article on the cruse ships and where they are laid up at present. It went on to detail the consequences of either "warm" layover or "cold" layover in terms of cost to maintain this and costs to re-commission and the gist of it was that the longer this goes on the more degraded the ships systems become and the more costs involved in re-starting the whole enterprise. Unsurprisingly, the sea air takes a harsh toll on plumbing and electrical systems if they are laid up cold and not used and the same is true of navigation and propulsion equipment. There will be a tipping point where it is no longer economically viable to return a ship to service, particularly if it will only operate at a fraction of previous capacity. A sign of this was that the Costa Victoria (launched 1995) had been sold to become an accommodation ship at one of Italy’s shipyards. However, in a surprise announcement, the mayor of Piombino, Italy Francesco Ferrari, announced that the ship had arrived at the Tuscan port to be scrapped.

If only it were the tree hugging vegans and swampies holding this share down! In truth they are a mere side show and distraction from company performance. The real problem is that UKOG produces little or nothing of something, which at the moment very few people actually want. Blame it all on bad timing, protesters, Covid19 etc. etc. etc. but when they admit it costs more to dispose of the water contaminating their oil than they make from selling it methinks the game is up. By the way I hold long term positions in BP and RDSB, so am not immune to the current ills of investing in fossil fuels. By way of a hedge I also hold UKW.

Immaculate, royal blue with tan leather interior and the salesman behind the wheel exudes confidence and a casual air of bonhomie!

Why do people get so fixated one one aim share like this? There is a whole world of investing opportunity out there and you could have made more money swing trading BP over the past couple of months that you have holding UKOG for the past 12! Is it just the lottery phenomenon where sheer greed takes over hoping to turn a single investment from thousands to millions of £'s? Like most things in life, if it sounds too good to be true it most probably is a bad un, a bit like the Roller for £1K which although nice and shiny in the pictures turns out to have no engine or brakes.

Shorters borrow and then immediately sell that stock to the market. There have been no further shorts taken out since Sandbar increased their position on the 18th of June. All the shorters can do now is sit on the cash they have generated and hope that they can buy back their "loaned" stock at a much lower price. Hardly "heavy manipulation" more likely the case that investors are still nervous about buying RR. until the position wrt commercial air travel is somewhat clearer.