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Sorry Stockdale, ... :-)

Stix40, yes I have seen that and it talks about new high-quality starter motors that are used more in hybrids than your typical Fiat 500, the main point I was trying to make is the supposed cut in emissions, as on restarting you have extra fuel consumption used to purely recharge the battery and due to catalyst cooling a greater percentage of untreated exhaust emitted till back up to temperature.

Ipad good morning to you, coaches I feel is to either keep them warm or air-con to keep them cool, some lorries are refrigerated and have to keep the refrigeration compressor running at all time, another is the wear on starting and cooling of the cat, but the most likely is when the engine is running the company thinks that you are still working hard and when stopped it shows up like a sore thumb on their Tachograph that you indeed are not working and just eating and drinking or taking 40 winks, cynical of me I know...

Anders, funny you should mention Ford's, one of the common conversions in the early 1980s was to convert the automatic choke "Weber" carburetor back to good old manual and lots of kits were made to carry this out as when it worked in auto it often just flooded the engine with petrol and caused non-starting problems...again the good old days.

Good morning to you Anders, I assume "time the coke is used?" is a typo for the choke, that lovely old thing one used to pull out from the dash to start the car in the morning, ah the good old days of motoring when off you went to Cornwall and got stuck in traffic and had to pull off the road to let the car cool down, perfect opportunity to get out the Primus stove and have a cup of tea, memories.

Good morning, Manilla, and thank you for your thoughts and input regarding its use within a hybrid environment and adds more to the debate.
All the best to you.

Thanks to Stix40 and Trift8082 for pointing out the Palladium price and I have just looked and it is Per Ounce
$2,020.00 + $28.30...... $2020 in 2020 let us hope this is a good omen to start the day and seen as a positive for our share price today.

Thanks, everyone, for your thoughts on this, as I say I certainly can't see any logic to it at all, same as EGR valves that clog up and when they do work feed all sorts of nasty soot and carbon from the exhaust into your nice clean inlet manifold and clog that up, the idea to feed the emissions from an engine back into itself does nothing to improve the engine and causes major problems, all for the sake of reducing NOx. The NOx emission benefit of EGR comes at a cost: other measures are usually required to avoid unacceptable increases in fuel consumption, emissions of PM, HC, and CO, engine wear and reductions in engine durability. In order to address these trade-offs in commercial diesel engine applications, engine manufacturers have had to simultaneously adopt a range of other technological changes such as:

reductions in lubricating oil consumption,
increases in fuel injection pressure,
increased use of diesel oxidation catalysts, and
increased intake manifold boost pressure.

And it only normally works at low RPM to enable the engine to try and eat/digest its own emissions at a cost...
and more to go wrong...

Good night all, and let us hope for a good week ahead.

trucky, my exact point, but with every car producer thinking up ways to keep the cat hot and even to the point of injecting neat fuel into the exhaust to burn, to even heating it electrically, why give you the useless technology of stop-start in the first place when they sell it to us as a way to reduce emissions and from that perspective is the point I was trying to make as I cannot see how, as any cooling of the cat that has taken some time to heat seems counter-intuitive to my logic and always turned off in my car, just interested for others take on the principle of it, flawed in my view, just saying.
All the best Trucky.

****** was the word r e t a r d the ignition timing, a word not liked by LSE apparently....

We had a little discussion on this a short while ago over why it was ever brought in and it's intended reason -
What is stop-start technology? Stop-start is a system on most modern cars that cuts the engine when the car is stationary, in order to reduce fuel consumption and emissions.
So it is for the perceived saving of fuel and emissions.......
Right here goes my thoughts on this...whoever thought this up.
1, Most wear and tear with Internal combustion engines takes place on starting due to the fact that no oil is circulating.
2, Extra wear on starter and expensive oversize flooded cell or AGM battery to enable quicker recharging. adding to more weight and heavier-duty starter motor.
3, The law of physics tells you that you can't get free energy and whatever Watt-Hours you consume from the battery upon restarting have to be replaced by the charging system and the engine-driven alternator has this job, this extra loading will equate to about 4HP extra and you will burn more fuel in consequence till the starting battery is fully recharged.
4, Now I know all the above have to be taken with respect to how long you are stoped for in relation to perceived fuel saving but here is the bit that I don't understand and it is due to the fact that it has taken several miles of travel to actually heat up the catalytic converter in the first place before it reached its optimum working temperature and now the stop-start turns off the engine and allows the catalyst to cool down below operating temperature, upon restarting the engine the exhaust is now spuing untreated until the operating temperature is reached again, so you emit more emissions, this may not have much effect in hot California but in good old cold Blighty it does as the catalyst working temperature is about 430C for petrol and above 640 degrees Celsius for a Diesel DPF and insufficient temperature is a major cause of a blocked DPF requiring a forced regeneration by the local automobile tec and his trusty Fault Code Reader. In petrol cars, they use the ECU to ****** the ignition timing to cause greater exhaust heating but with the associated reduced engine efficiency or in the case of a Deisel with a Multijet engine where the injectors perform multiple injections instead of one big one to reduce noise and when a regeneration of the DPF is required to alter the multiple injection cycles to include a post-TDC injection of fuel to cause thermal afterburning and heat the exhaust to bright orange to initiate burn off on the DPF, a worrying spectacle to behold when a forced regen is performed on your car and the software on your code reader says are you sure you wish to proceed and then asks again are you sure you wish to continue before you can press the execute button and it states there is now no way to stop this process once started, engine revs to 2000 rpm, engine starts to run very rough and exhaust glows bright orange with lots of smoke. my point is why cool the cat with stop-start ...

Good morning all
We all know one of the most precious of our basket of mined PGM's is Palladium whose value is going through the roof, we also know the next one this time by volume from our basket is Platinum used in lots of industrial processes and Diesel engine particle filters (DPF) and of course in the new upcoming Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCV) well, here is one I was not aware of, the Diesel engine has been the subject lately of particulates hence the use of DPF's to clean them up, well apparently the new breed of Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) engines designed because they reduce CO2 emissions, 40% of new non-diesel passenger car registrations in the EU were GDIs in 2015, The downside with direct injection is particulate emissions, which traditional indirect fuel injection petrol engines don’t produce, they have found as a consequence that these new engines emit much more harmful nanoparticles, these nanoparticles are so small they can get into the bloodstream via the lungs where as the Diesel DPF removed 90% of them, it was quoted somewhere that the new breed of GDI's are 100 times worse with emitting nanoparticals that a Diesel fitterd with a DPF, so now we have to clean up the Petrol engine that all thougt was better than a seemingly dirty Diesel, it is not, hence the new all singing GASOLINE PARTICULATE FILTER (GPF) so this has to be fitted to clean up by catalytic action the soot from a GDI engine after the 3 way catalist to reduce NOx and is this lovely new use that may increase the demand and increase the price of Platinum that appears to be trending up since midway last year. There seems to be no end to the uses of PGM's and we have them by the bucket load.

Have a good weekend everyone and here's to a better week for the share price in this stock.

Thanks, Pompeyrod for your kind thoughts.

Gold is up on a geopolitical level as you would expect after the recent news - Gold Price Per Ounce $1,554.80 + $27.10.
Palladium is back on trend to smash through the $2000 mark very soon, it has got off to a great start in 2020 and is currently at Palladium Price Per Ounce $1,992.40 + $28.40, yesterday was a lackluster day for most shares and for us as a consequence due to the foreseen worldwide escalating problems that should not impact on our resources directly, big money is still accumulating EUA stock in the background as per the end of day figures, roll on the end of the Russian holiday for us elsewhere in the world...sorry for all Russians enjoying their holiday break and I hope they have a great Christmas on the 7th January and feel rejuvenated on there return back to work.
For the rest of us have a good weekend and let's see what Monday brings...

Lucretius - Thanks, no I have plenty of lovely support from everyone and my gorgeous wife Becky who has been a fantastic tower of strength over the last two years, as previously in 2017 I was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent a proctectomy at the Lister hospital, on removing the prostate they found cancer had spread so they removed 20 lymph nodes and I underwent 35 days of radiotherapy and now only receiving Hormone therapy injections to suppress any lurking cancer cells. I feel fine and everyone comments on how well I look but I know my longer-term outlook is not great. all I can say is don't get old as it all starts to go downhill and you have to deal with the hand you are dealt in life. When and if it eventually stops raining here I will go out, but at the moment I have my feet up in front of the fire and watching a film I recorded from over Christmas. I really do feel fine and I'm only 63 but feel more like 90.
I hope the hallway painting is going well and you haven't found a reason to put it off until tomorrow...I would have :-)
Thanks again for your kind thoughts and all good wishes.
Ian

Thanks for your reply Lucretius - No I have had the Vitrectomy, cryotherapy, and injection of gas bubble which has now been reabsorbed and replaced with normal eye vitreous, the operation was 3 months ago, but the transition from a gas bubble and NO vision to partial vision where you see the liquid sloshing within the eye to full vitreous replacement where you have vision back took about 7 weeks so I have only had full vision back in that eye for the last month, and that vision is disappointing and nothing like the outcome I was hoping for, as vision through that eye is permanently distorted, crooked, and out of focus compared to the good eye, round things are egg-shaped and I fear I may have to undergo more unpleasant eye surgery in the near future. enough from me.
I hope you painting the hallway goes to plan and you take care, and here's to a better new year with 2020.

Thanks again
Ian

Good morning to you Lucretius, I just had to use Google to translate "Spasiba bolshoi" to find out you said - Thank you.

Yes, fine thanks for asking, eye still the same and I think I'm coming down with a cold the same as everyone else, last night I went out for a curry and beer with old workmates and put the world to rights, nice start to 2020.
Are you keeping well and up to anything?

Lucretius, another lovely post from you this morning, you are on fire today .... :-)
Some very interesting and relevant points raised, thank you.

A good way to burn money is to buy one of these new-fangled electric vehicles you only lose 71% of its cost over 3 years....
Kia Soul EV
The current-generation Kia Soul EV, with an estimated operating range of 111 miles on a charge, is expected to hold onto 29.0% of its original value after three years, according to Kelley Blue Book.

It is expected to hold onto 29% of its cost so you lose 71%....WTF .... real bargain, buy two lose more....think I will stick to good old internal combustion thank you, and you have battery rental to consider on top...

Raid over heading back up....

Good morning all, the first day of trading in this New year, what we know to start the day is Gold down, Silver Down, Platinum down, Palladium Price Per Ounce $1,951.50 + $4.20 ... UP.
We know the directors have a massive amount of skin in the game, a fantastic plus point.
we know the company has at last turned the corner and is starting to make some money.
We know the company has no debt now and has stated it will not require to raise funds going forward, growing organically.
We know the company has removed the middle man and has since last September started to mine itself on a 100% basis.
WE know the company mines a valuable product that is rare and very valuable and will be required in larger quantities.
We know the company has been around for 24 years and is not new.
We know the company has one of the cheapest open-pit mines to operate.
We know the company has directors fully aligned with shareholders.
We know the company has got two of the largest world banks involved to sell either the whole company or its assets.
We can all speculate on what the sale values may be going forward.
We as investors in this company and can see the potential only see a fantastic investment opportunity that is worth far more and could easily multi-bag 10-15 times from here.
We see the share price as massively undervalued, but as the value is in the assets and not directly in the company this can cause a problem for any new investor as all the existing share valuation calculations go out the window if we look at company revenue, as the company has only just started to make a profit that is not a good historic metric to go on and until the assets are sold and that value added to the company coffers it will not be reflected within the share price, a dilemma for new investors as asses our true value at this time, we have not yet seen the mined 2019 output figures but expect them not to be great as output was capped by incorrect license application and 70% going to middle man, things have now changed and the company is due to ramp up production in 2020 and going forward, there are so many positives but are all going forward and not reflected in today's share price. we have all done our research and due diligence the new investor may just use the normal company valuation yardsticks, so unless any new investor has the foresight and strong beliefs he may miss out on this fantastic opportunity to invest here. So we all hope the share price continues in its upward trend and it certainly shouldn't drop but at this time it may still lie below the radar with some for the technicals raised above. this is, of course, my take on the thing and as you know I rate this share as a strong buy, just saying as to whether this rises strongly from here today or treads water sideways till more news is up for debate, does not counteract my advice to hold for the end game.
Good luck all and long may the share price rise.