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Having said that, sometimes you need to read through what I've said to what I'm really saying. Just saying.

Faramog, fair comment, you clearly have a much better handle on Redt than I do. What's the story with Avalon then. Who knoas what caveats could be thrown in?

Bella, you do make a powerful argument there. Especially given our relationship with Avalon. Let's not forget Fortune does have form for swooping in and underpaying for assets when they are in the doldrums (which Redt certainly was) it isn't inconceivable to me that Avalon agreed the RTO on the strength of BMN underpinning the deal.
It does have the hall marks of creating value well beyond the purchase price for which we have become accustomed to in Mr Mojapelo.

That's interesting Sloppyg. No mention of storage though. Shame I had to go back a page and a half to find a post of substance. Too much caffeine maybe.

No offence taken my friend. Have a good night.

Olly, no it wasn't and he didn't die (then) and to be honest I have no idea what you are talking about.

Thank you Olly. Many years ago I used to run a chemical company called Parachem Products. The owner, Q, (real name Quentin, so you can understand why he liked to be called Q) was a gregarious bigger than life character. As a side note, here's another story. Q had several Rolls Royces in a row. His last being a powder blue silver Shadow and his 5 year old son, Adam had never known any different. One day the roller was in the garage so Q took a company Sprinter home. Adam came out the house and went WOW, Dad's got a VAN!!! It's all perspective.
Anyway I digress. (I will clean it up later)
Q had a key man insurance policy. He died, all the debts got paid plus a million to the company. One day, going over the books, I told him the best thing he could do would be to drop dead. He took off his glasses. Looked at me and ssid - numpty, I drink a bottle of whiskey a day and smoke 40 Bensons. I'm doing the best I can.

Alfa, seriously, what did Faraday ever know about electricity? You are right of course. They will tax something deemed undesirable more to the benefit of something currently deemed desirable. We will all pay the same one way or another. Then we will die. The only 2 guarantees in life.

Faramog, thank you. Coming from you I feel quite humbled. It's odd how comedy can sometimes make a point better than science. And, conceit to one side, having read it for the first time since I wrote it. It was quite good. Thank you.

Just noticed I got 39 recommends for a bit of drunken comedy. I'm impressed with myself.

Sorry, for clarity, Leaseplan are not a broker, they are a leasing company.

setcentric, the Germans are dead serious abouf EV's. BMW owned leasing company - Alphabet - have decreed that their business has to have a certain percentage of them. An e-NV200 acenta is about £80 a month cheaper on a contract hire basis (all rentals are reliant on variables such as term, deposit, mileage etc. I am generalising hugely here) than on Leaseplan, the largest vehicle broker in Europe.

Stoke

Just amazing. Take a bow Mr Stokes.

I don't know where to start really. Vanadium. What's that all about then? Sounds like a VW camper to me. Strengthens steel apparently. So they say. Half a percent makes it 30 times stronger and more able to withstand earthquakes they reckon. Haven't had too many of them in East Grinstead lately. If I'm honest. Which isn't very often in fairness. well, anybody dumb enough to believe 100 years of proven science gets all they deserve in my book.
That ain't all though is it. There's all this battery malarkey. Oh, oh, climate change, climate change, save the slug, pass the prosecco whilst people fry somewhere I've never been and never will because you can't get a full English and I ain't eating no foreign muck when I'm abroad. F**king liberty takers.
I mean, What harm is climate change ever likely to do to us? Seriously? I mean apart from melting ice and rising seas, extreme weather causing crops to fail and famine, water shotages and everybody dying from pollution or lack of water and no electricity or fuel when you use up the fossil fuels. Not to mention all the other nonsense spouted by people who actually know what they are talking about. Makes you laugh dunnit.
So this Bushveld mob. What's the story there then? Got a geezer in charge called Fortune. Is that an omen? (Great film) Well I can tell you right now, he's not the messiah. He may turn Vanadium into electrolyte but he can't do the whole water wine thing can he? Different league that is. He may be a very naughty boy. Anyway, they dig this Vanadium stuff up apparently. Shed loads of it so they say. Flog it to all and sundry so I hear. Bit like when I was flogging magic beans to that bloke capa.
So anyway, now this Vanadium stuff can be shoved into a large Duracell and power whole communities for hours on end with power generated earlier. It never loses power or catches fire or degades unlike lithium and is just as toodally pip decades down the road. Yeah like we were born yesterday. Just because it's true doesn't mean ....oh hang on.
So, these muppets reckon it can bring electricity to remote communities not on the grid by storing unicorn or solar or wind or some other imaginary energy generation technology. Level out power generated at one time to go 24/7 cover for everybody, reduce the requirement for fossil fuel generation and some other stuff I don't understand. (Most of it)
Do they think we are all clueless ? Seriously, who in their right mind would think this is going to be the biggest growth industry with the best product for the next decade (at least) and the ability to make a genuine change for the better to the entire world? Chateau pape de nerf.
Well, must be off. Got a real deal going down for some clockwork nuns.

There's no need to worry here. Bandy is still drawing his salary and that's what this Company is all about. Bit more dilution in a while I shouldn't wonder. Those yachts don't buy themselves. All my opinion of course. I

I do have to laugh at new 'investors' moaning about LTH's being bitter. To keep doing the same thing and expecting different results is not the most intelligent thing to do.

Ok, scrolling further back I can see colt45 got it right there, so apologies for that.

Colt45, you son of a gun, it's not as misleading as you claiming to have bought over 10 million shares. I think you dropped a few extra digits in there. Anyway, I can see what you actually meant so I won't be pedantic about it. If they were buys and they were yours then fair play to you. You obviously know a good thing when you see it.

Slightly irritating that you already own more than I have accumulated in 6+ years but at least your average is way north of mine I suppose. Welcome aboard, for the minute.

That's great news RK. I am made up for you both.

Mrs numpty couldn't understand why I was pleased them. Well 1) I didn't suffer them. 2) thought it might provoke discussion about solutions. And it did. Do we have a winner here in the 'who named themselves 'energy scientist'' on the BBC today yet? Whoever you are, bravo. Unfortunately I couldn't remember my password because I despise the British biased corporation and generally avoid it like the plague. Well done to those who posted. I know I'm harking back to this morning but busy day and not had time to post. We wilget the message out eventually.
I see it's the same old nonsense for the most part here today. Getting tiresome but well defended everyone.