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Maxcady... I note no recent links to 'factual' Russian MoD claims about the failure of the Ukrainian offensive etc... How's it all going? I had heard they said they are withdrawing for tactical reasons. Any thoughts? What's the leaderships next move... to North Korea perhaps?

I am perhaps being premature but it looks to me like the old soviet republics might have had their bacon saved by the Ukrainians. Perhaps regime changes coming in a few of them. Lets hope more Maidan revolutions for less corrupt governance.

To mute.... e.g. to turn off the speaker
To moot.... to propose something.. e.g. it was mooted to as a means to move boards
Why do so many people use the wrong spelling? I see it everywhere

You should also know that Alexander Mercouris was disbarred from being a solicitor here because he made a fake claim about being kidnapped, and is a presenter for RT the Russian state broadcaster, thus he is far from being an unbiased commentator.

@maxcady I watched your youtube link to Alexander Mercouris and did my own research on some of the claims he and his commenters were making. I noted that one of the claims was that the recent rocket attack on Kramatorsk was proven to be by the Ukrainians themselves because the rocket motor lay south west of the explosion zone and the motors always land behind the explosion zone meaning that the rocket must have originated from the south west, u.e. in Ukrainian held territory. Well, on doing research on that claim as an example showed it is not factual. The rocket fires up into the sky and comes tangentially down the way to the impact area, rather than horizontally like a cruise missile. The motor on detaching from the head becomes unstable and has been known to land anywhere around the explosion site. Yes it is more likely to land from the direction of travel, but not guaranteed. The colour of the missile was also the colour that the Russians use for their missiles, not the grey that the Ukrainians use. So I am afraid in my view all you are watching is Russian propaganda made to look like someone who is merely unbiased.

Yes you are absolutely right the war could have so easily been avoided.. after all one of the chief requirements of being allowed to join NATO is that you have no active border disputes at the time. All Russia needed to do was open up a border dispute with Ukraine... No wait, they did that in 2014 and have been keeping it going since then, so there was no way Ukraine could join NATO.. really so no need for the war?.. Why didn't someone mention this to the 1st Tsar of the next Russian empire....in waiting that is if he lives long enough. I for one hope he doesn't.

Why not just use google finance web pages to see the live price.. it's free.

gdog, as far as I understand it it all depends on what you mean by none work against omicron. None seem to protect people from catching it very well, but they do still protect from becoming seriously ill. The intensive care beds in the hospitals here in the UK are largely filled by the unvaccinated, regardless of which variant, yet they make up only around 10% of the population.

Alfa, you do not appear to take into account the progress that is being made in conversion of hydrogen to and from ammonia. Ammonia is a very dense way of storing and transporting hydrogen. There are also steps being made in generating ammonia directly from air and water. I am sure it will be part of the transport future, it already is being adopted for testing in marine shipping purposes.

Not sure the source of sulphur is of any consequence. Some oil refiners would virtually pay you to take it away. In Kazakhstan for instance it is 20 percent of the gas they produce.

I would not entirely agree that the graphs show a 'continued slide', there are positives. Regardless of the 10 year graph (available on google finance etc) showing it down to penny mark in the distant past, in the last year the slide has also been arrested and reversed several times at around the 9p mark. Back in 2018 the same price showed a lot of resistance to rising through it, so it is a psychological barrier that will encourage buying when it is approached, and the last few days have shown that. If however we drop to below 8.5p and hold that overnight (as opposed to just momentarily touching it), it does not look so promising. We are unfortunately in a waiting game, for redox batteries to become a more widely recognised option worldwide, and the SA govt's less than transparent workings are not helping.

I suspect if it is in their small print, that qualifies as express permission to loan shares out.

Has anyone else asked their broker if they loan the shares out for shorting purposes. I did, mine doesn't thank god (iDealing) but I was planning to tell them to either not lend mine or prepare for me to move to another broker.

Tagware... Tesla batteries last as well as they do because they are actually rated at 90% of the actual capacity, and only charge to that rating. You can do the same with your mobile if you only charge it to 90%. It's not clever design by Tesla.
Main criticism and concern I have about lithium batteries is that is if they get short circuited, e.g. in a car accident, they go into thermal overload and self ignite. So in an accident there is always the possibility this can happen however well you protect the battery. Once in this loop it is extremely difficult to extinguish, and even once extinguished it can reignite many times. The only safe and Teslas's recommended way of dealing with a battery fire is to let it burn out. So you can see the motorways being closed for longer periods in the event of EV fires.... Fuel cells do not have this issue. H2 once escaped from it's container very very quickly disperses, there is only a very short window when it is at a flammable mixture.
Personally I would MUCH rather be in a fuel cell vehicle than a lithium battery powered one.

I see it is still goundhog day here. Same old rubbish being spouted. How many months have we been stuck in this meaningless drivel.

Mine too

I only look in here every few weeks, in the forlorn hope that it is no longer stuck in Groundhog day, but every time I am disappointed, STT & Qwertii still repeating the same half dozen (I am being generous) statements..... I will go into hibernation again now.

You did one trade at 844 (allegedly) and keep crowing about it. If you were so good, why haven't you traded the many ups and downs between 7.3 and 8 since then?
Instead all you ever do is repeat the same old rubbish constantly.
Instead all you ever do is repeat the same old rubbish constantly.
Instead all you ever do is repeat the same old rubbish constantly.
Instead all you ever do is repeat the same old rubbish constantly.
Instead all you ever do is repeat the same old rubbish constantly.
How do you feel about just repeating things now?

Projects screw up on timescales and budgets all the time. Look at HS2.... That's all that has happened here. PHE relied on Peel to do better than they have done. Nothing dodgy. The tiny bit of dilution is neither here nor there, just has scared people who are already twitchy. The only dodgy stuff is the blatant ramping and deramping.

I may be being thick, but surely the point is that by PHE having a large stake in Engsolve it means that if there is diverse work ongoing in Engserve, then PHE can dictate their work as priority. It's not about retaining the employees, it's about the ability to prioritise.

Actually I could have posted that under any heading by STT, it's the same few paragraphs on repeat.