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Ophidian, thanks for sharing your specialist knowledge: it's much appreciated.

Will it be feasible for Brits to produce Modified Vanadium Oxide (MVO/V2O3) too?

SloppyGuiseppe always finds interesting pizzas of news - best said in an Italian accent.

He's shared loads of vanadium and energy storage articles.

Cheers SloppyG :)

LinkedDreams - great article, thanks for sharing. I'm excited for the day BMN will power Vametco with its own VRFB. It takes vertically integrated to another level.

...it's worth reading this recent article again.

'Bushveld Minerals: growing to be a world-class vanadium business'

https://www.miningreview.com/top-stories/bushveld-minerals-world-class-vanadium/

Before I sign off for the night, for those not on twitter, see link to a report released by MIT that suggests there could be a surge in demand for tin owing to its use in lithium-ion batteries.

But we already knew that ;)

https://mobile.twitter.com/Afritin_Mining/status/1107482314945245184

Mkx007, I don't think it's a 'global trend'. There are VRFB projects completed or in progress worldwide, see
http://vanitec.org/vanadium/Energy-Storage-News

VRFB technology is cost effective in the long term, as VRFBs have a 20 year lifespan and the electrolyte can be reused / recycled after. They can be used for grid support (e.g. peak shaving, system balancing), large and small scale off-grid installations. They are stable, safe and ideal for storing wind and solar power. The world is moving towards renewable energy and VRFBs are ideal for energy storage.

I'm not a Redt investor, but like them I believe in VRFBs, and hoped that Redt would do well.

GLA

A handy link for the latest updates in VRFB projects worldwide.

http://vanitec.org/vanadium/Energy-Storage-News

12000 @ 3.47

GLA :)

Knuttie - If that were true, lucky kitties, they'll be the cats that got the cream :p

Best wishes to you and Liz

93,670 @ 3.47 is my buy, and it's actually showing as a buy.

Hoped to top up under 3.50, so I'm a happy bunny :)

In case anyone missed them, the latest videos are on the BMN website

Vametco and Eskom VRFB Site Visit

BMO Global Metals & Mining Conference presentation

http://www.bushveldminerals.com/videos/

SA Energy Minister Jeff Radebe is out of hospital and recovering at home.

https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/energy-minister-jeff-radebe-recovering-at-home-after-health-scare-20190313

CG, the relevance is that Russian scientists have developed a new vanadium material for next generation nuclear reactors.

"Our team has developed the sandwich-type three-layer steel-vanadium alloy-steel material whose ferritic stainless steel ensures substantial corrosion resistance. And the material's vanadium alloy (V-4Ti-4Cr) guarantees heat and radiation resistance, so as to offset the impact of a nuclear reactor's super-aggressive environment," said project co-author and postgraduate student Alexandra Baranova from NUST MISIS' Faculty of Materials Science and Physics of High-Strength Materials. "

https://sputniknews.com/amp/russia/201903111073122780-next-gen-nuclear-reactors/?__twitter_impression=true

Came across this Fully Charged video that demonstrates how a flow battery is storing solar power in a house in Australia. It's a big house with a lot of solar panels, e.g. on a sunny day the solar panels can generate up to 70 kwh, and if the house only uses half of that, the excess is exported to the grid.

The flow battery in the video is a Zinc-Bromide Hybrid (Redflow ZCell). However, I imagine that VRFBs would work in the same way if used in a micro-grid / community shared grid capacity.

The first 8 mins explains how flow battery energy storage works (after that it's about the ZCell)

I found it really informative :)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4OHstY_kKUY

Fantastic news BBN, very encouraging along with Buzzzipster's 'Bushveld Energy / SolarReserve' post.

Enjoyed reading the BB today and we finished up too.

Thanks everyone and GLA :)

Thanks for the shipment update Pal, and to James0309 for the estimated annual sales run rate :)

Gordon, as requested, currently at 2870 signatures.

'Government Petition to Ban shorting of London AIM stocks.

The AIM stock market is where smaller companies list their shares rather than using the prohibitively expensive main London Stock Market. This is an important market for the growth of smaller UK companies.

In challenging times, shorters seek to borrow the company's shares from a holder for a consideration and to buy them at a later date. They immediately sell these shares which, due to the relative illiquid market, sends the price much lower and hence the shorters can buy them at that lower price - pocketing the difference. The only beneficiaries are the shorters and the market makers with the losers being the reputable company and it's bona fide investors.'

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/242399

Signed and shared on Twitter - 1935 signatures now - ticking up nicely ;-)

* 'taxes' should say 'tax rules'

SOTTR, thanks, I could have worded that better. When I said "have held shares for 2 years" I meant past tense, i.e. already benefiting from the AIM 2 year holding rule for IHT exemption.

Miner69er, thanks again, that makes it very clear (BMN listing on a recognised stock exchange, whether UK or not, will mean the above 2 year IHT exemption is immediately lost).

I have only invested in FTSE 100 / 250 shares previously, so was not familiar with the AIM IHT tax rule. I'm more familiar with ISA tax rules.

For less experienced investors like myself, I found the following gov.uk links helpful regarding taxes on ISAs and inheritance.

https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax

https://www.gov.uk/individual-savings-accounts