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If you need to chat about Brexit I am sure there is a board somewhere for it.
If you want to chat about the ailing Italy economy I am sure there is a board for that as well.
If you want to chat about Jaguar E Types there will be a board for that.
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Finally; if you want a fully engaged opinion and chat about VRS, this should be a good place to start.
Wantng to air your politics on here is not going to reach the masses; is it?
With all this disruptive drone activity; might Graphene do more to help external areas of an aircraft contain any possible damage. Some chat on here this week on turbine blades but with graphene coating on exteriors benefiting de icing and now external bodies possibly?
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Use this instead
The concept of wireless charging sounds great until literally, the rubber hits the road. It is one thing to make the technology work in a lab but creating a wireless charging system that easily integrates into an existing street and withstands the stress and pounding of heavy vehicle traffic is an entirely different challenge.
Magment’s approach is unique in the world of electronics as they mix, low-cost, recycled ferrite material into concrete (or asphalt, as indicated on their website), providing mechanical reinforcement while magnetizing the cured concrete. Embedding a coil into the concrete mixture allows them to create an antenna that radiates power to a vehicle-mounted receiver and achieve power transfer efficiencies of up to 96%.
Speaking at the 2018 IDTechExpo, Magment CEO and Co-Founder, Mauricio Esguerra, discusses how this is a relatively low-cost way to add wireless charging to a city’s infrastructure. Poured as regular concrete, Magment’s solution could add wireless charging in parking lots, bus stops and traffic signals to provide opportunistic charging. Longer-term, it could be used to roads that wirelessly charge vehicles (reducing the size of the batteries needed in those vehicles).
It also has dual-use potential, such as traffic counting (e.g. replacing the loops that Departments of Transportation embed in the road). As an example of such an application, Magment is working with another German start-up, Park Here, to integrate with their self-powered sensors and associated parking management system.¹
Esguerra indicates that one of the first tests of the Magment concrete is in Finland to provide wireless charging at bus stops for the fixed route, shared Sensible4 autonomous shuttle. They are also testing withLinkker electric buses and have plans for a trial in Beijing. Although they have tested dynamic road charging up to 55 MPH, he is hopeful that the introduction of GaN (Gallium nitride) semiconductor technology will allow for faster switching between blocks.
This is just the start, as the concrete could be used for other use-cases, such counters with integrated induction stovetop, electric water taxis or, as Esguerra points out, a magnetized tunnel to help propel a passive hyperloop (e.g. magnets attached to the vehicle and energized from the electrified concrete tunnel).
The commercial potential is huge. Reports estimate that whilst the global graphene market is currently worth a relatively modest $200 million it is growing at a fast rate, having doubled in the past year. Perhaps unsurprisingly, China is driving that growth and currently holds a 22% market share, however other countries are moving to develop their research capabilities in graphene, including Singapore, which has established its multi-million dollar NUS Centre for Advanced 2D Materials. In Europe, the EU launched its Graphene Flagship, an initiative set to invest €1bn into graphene research over ten years, and which helped fund the University of Manchester’s first graphene research facility.
With increased global investment and an expanding market, it is vital that the UK, home to where the material was first discovered, maintains its competitive edge and continues to develop facilities that supports world-leading research and development that will unlock the potential of the material.
That’s why the opening of the Graphene Engineering and Innovation Centre could not come soon enough. The facility, which received £15m in Round 3 of Research England’s UK Research Partnership Investment Fund, will focus on the application and commercialisation of graphene and 2-D materials.
Just thought I would post a selection of the past 11 months RNS's. Cannot be sure how many are still ongoing but does show how far widespread the company has spread its technology a upsized its market penetration.
Planned Jinan Manufacturing Centre Update
Graphene Enhanced Aircraft Interior Parts
MOU with Tunghsu Optoelectronic Technology
Collaboration with Advance
Completion of the Acquisition of Gnanomat S.L.
Construction Materials Collaboration
Collaboration Agreement with AXIA Materials
Sporting Goods Collaboration
Commercial Agreement with MediaDevil
Agreement with Arrow GreenTech
Graphinks Product Launch
Consumer Goods Collaboration
Agreement with Luxus
Graphene Supply to Major Tyre Producer
Hexotene Product Launch
Collaboration with World Leading Aerospace Group
Collaboration with Team Sky
Agreement with Vivobarefoot
Medical Technology Collaboration
Com Sec S Tobbit resigned Feb 18 also as Dir 21018
N Payne Dir 2015
G Rolls Dir 2015
Thats 4 resignations in 3 years.
Do I have the wrong company? Taken from Compnaies House records.
There may be a good reason?