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Gotta know what you're doing when you utilize stored energy.
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Yep Indelco, scraping what they can off the top and then moving on to the next discounted capital raise and quick flip. Not a bad strategy if you can turn over quarter mill or more a year 3-4 times. Then there is the occasionally unexpected upside to sweeten the pot. Frankly we need those jokers from time to time.
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When I did some flipping back in the late 90's, it was mostly done with one brokerage house that had really good deal flow. Not sure if the two direct placement agents (Philadelphia Brokerage Corporation and Emerging Growth Equities, Ltd) have that kind of flow. Sure doesn't look like it:
It makes no sense for a flipper to buy, hold for a few months and then sell at the same price. I believe whoever's selling at $.35 is probably a 2009 vintage holder that's grown tired of waiting. Without some pretty clear data points I'd be reluctant to try and identify a specific seller, but there can't be more than a couple with enough weight to sit on the price like we're seeing now.
John, You are correct that it makes no sense. However, If the party had already gotten gains off the majority of their holdings and they just needed to clean house on the balance then they might decide to part with the remaining shares at .35 USD. Just one WAG of many.
Reminder of the dangers of alliances with Chinese companies:
After watching the way business is done in China I think the most sensible structure is *pay us a big pile of cash today and we'll give you an exclusive territorial license to our technology in China, but include iron clad provisions that prevent you from ever exporting products or otherwise competing with us outside your territory.*
I had posted this presentation on brand x and I'm pretty sure I remember it being covered here as well. Just wanted to post it again for those that may have missed it because slides 78, 79 and 81 are the best slides I've ever seen to indicate a view of how the market leader sees the auto industries needs being met with challenges also mentioned.
Nice link and chart from last Summer. Seems disingenuous though that they don't give the PBC a grade for cycle life and they also seem to short change the "usable energy". Hopefully this year's presentation goes into deeper detail on why (or why not) they'd choose AGM over AGM with carbon electrodes. I'd think PBC costs can come way down if they were to scale and be manufactured at one of JCI's plants that do 5M+ batteries a year. Since a plant costs 100-200M to build Axion will need to play nice with these big boys to get the scale needed to serve this S/S market that will be in full force by 2015.
The most disingenuous part of the useable energy metric is the reality that the stop-start duty cycle doesn't use more than a couple percent of the battery's total energy.
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metro, Then when you couple those slides with this form it just makes you smile.
"Do you do short journeys?"
"No generally 15 miles minimum – 30 – 40 mins. In fact last weekend I drove 180 miles to Wales for 3 hours continuously and it didn't shut off when I came to the first set of traffic lights."
"That's probably not enough to charge the battery fully......""
iindelco: Nice find. I can't recall if it was five months or eight ago, I looked into stop/start complaints; there were none I could find. Now, in the past few days, we've located a couple of sites and are seeing the first of stop/start complaints now starting to trickle in.
metroneanderthal, contributorStriving to keep pace with iindelco and maya, went to the uk mini (mini made by BMW) forum and found several threads on failure of stop/start. One thread linked below:
Maya, The sites are there and I've seen some rambling for some time. There are two difficulties that are slowing our ability to use such information to assess how the consumer is going to handle this in Europe.
iindelco > http://bit.ly/GACnSE
I spoke at a channel partner's meeting for a battery charger manufacturer earlier this year. One of the more interesting tidbits I heard is that the battery is the only component that no first tier manufacturer will put its brand on. They've spent years becoming masters of a game where the automaker blames the battery and the battery manufacturer blames consumer's driving behavior.
metro, My favorite from your link.
D-inv, Yeah, Europe is celsius. 3 deg. C = 37.4 deg. F
Ford is offering stop-start as an option this year but most of the OEMs are simply including it as standard equipment as one element of an efficiency package. Slide 66 in the JCI Analyst Day presentation identified nine first tier western automakers that three first tier Chinese automakers that had adopted new stop-start production plans within the preceding 12 months (prior to June 2011)
John, For me it was a clear message to the lead acid battery industry. "You guys don't have anything that works and if you don't come up with an affordable solution we'll force one on you."
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A shot across the bow makes sense in an odd way. Mercifully I don't share your concern over the competitive threat from the Ultrabattery because they keep showing performance using gentler HEV cycle regimes instead of the standard that BMW and Ford put in front of the industry.
I found the presentation on page 61 interesting. Why? Because I think of the effect on demand for PcC, or an equivalent solution, as s/s ramps from 8% (2010) of vehicles to 52%-55% in the next 3.5 years or so.
John, I threw the Ultrabattery in as an unknown. It should be better. But how much over a reasonable charge/discharge range for SS? Don't know. The lead negative will still suffer sulfation but the capacitive side would mask some of this weakness in some apps. Also don't know the cost. Could be it's better but not enough to justify the cost adder. And if you still need a two battery system why eat chicken when you can have seafood.
An article I wrote in February included a graph from Lux that broke the market down into light, medium and heavy and showed a 5 year ramp rate for each tier. Using the Lux ratios and the JCI ramp rate, we're looking at demand for 6 million heavy micro-hybrids a year by 2015.
HTL, Right now from what I can see the BMW mini is a light. From what little we can see from the one site metro posted the owners of the mini are seeing poor performance from current battery tech. in SS in this app.
Caught this link from a comment JP made in another of his articles.
All I was considering was the potential market for PbC using the raw growth numbers and looking for assumptions we might make to guesstimate revenue.
EDIT: or linked below - can't tell for sure.
Yup, It all depends on the "heavy" segment growing robust and if Axion get a nice chunk of it. It seems reasonable that we will get a 10% chunk just from the BMW relationship alone. Some might say we end up with a much larger slice. It's my hope that it will be a large pie.
HTL, Understood. I'm just finding it hard to select what technologies are available in LAB's and steer them into the three categories. What I'm seeing right now is that what is available in series production besides lithium, NIMH and possibly LAB/Ultracapacitor would not work very well even in the light category (for me that means 5 to 6 years). And even the latter of the three is not a great solution given the impact of PSOC on the LAB. Oh, and all three are very expensive.
Someone posted a link to a BMW user website in the UK a while back. Same complaints and same song and dance from the dealers. One of our group wrote an explanation of what was going on and why and it seemed that the group there understood. They weren't happy about the explanation, but they seemed to get it at least.
Thanks Labtech!
magounsq, I think you can sense my anal retentive interest in this area. lol
iindelco -
Stefan, I tried to kind of explain in a subsequent message that I used Google translate and it didn't do a very good job. The extent of my humor was to kind of put forth a scenario where an employee of BMW explains that even though the battery is functioning as a boat anchor the company will still get credit (for the increased fuel efficiency).
battman, Yeah it kinda was. I've used the service many times in the past to read news from other countries and the translations are pretty poor. You can generally get the flavor of an article but will recognize pretty quickly why companies hire professionals to translate material.
"What Happened to A123?
Once the rising star of the clean-tech industry, the advanced battery maker faces an uncertain future."
This article from Design News does a good job of putting the challenges of battery technology development in context:
I think it's fascinating to see the way the lithium-ion battery industry is trying to spin the failures as successes from the taxpayer perspective:
I did a simple google search for "frequency regulation, grid, How to solve" and your 2008 SA article appeared as the first choice. I reread the article. It is interesting to look at this area 4 years later. Also interesting that only 15 comments appeared.
The NYSERDA project involved a prime contract between NYSERDA and Gaia Power Technologies, and a subcontract between Gaia and Axion.
metroneanderthal, contributorI liked this statement: The failures of Ener1 and International Battery, and the troubles of A123 Systems, are business failures, not technology failures. Companies come and go. Corporate assets get bought, sold and reorganized. None of that should matter to taxpayers.
Funny. If you read the Nature article on A123, and why they can't turn a profit, they pretty much sum it up "as" a technology failure and not a company failure. Granted the last $55 million debacle was a business failure, but the Nature article makes it pretty clear that the nano technology that A123 is using for its electrode is too expensive and they've never figured out a way to make it cheaper. Thus mass production doesn't help. Also the fact that no one has figured out how to make the porous separator cheaper is something that is standing in the way of all the Li-ion battery companies.
Of course one thing to keep in mind is that perhaps companies like PPO and others who make the porous separators don't really care if large Li-ion batteries cost too much to make. They have patented processes for their products and they are more interested in making profits. So what if their materials make EV batteries too expensive. They sell those same separators to battery makers for laptops and cell phones. If they bring the price down for the auto batteries, then they lose money when selling to the rest of the industry.
That's the economic conundrum all battery manufacturers face. The most valuable battery I own is the 5 wh cell in my phone. The second most valuable is the 35 wh pack in my computer. I'd pay almost any price per watt hour for those two devices. If I was buying an e-bike and needed a 500 wh battery pack, I'd start to get concerned with cost per watt-hour. If I was buying an EV and needed a 25,000 wh battery pack I'd be real concerned with cost per watt-hour. If I was buying stationary storage and needed 500,000 wh, I'd be fighting hammer and tong over every penny.
Interesting, European blog on frequency regulation ...
metroneanderthal, contributorGreat quote today in The Telegraph this morning stating that a new Greek currency would quickly find parity with the Zimbabwean Dollar.
In the 1990's Brazilians and Angolans were moving to Portugal by the droves. The Portuguese were working across the border on construction projects in Spain. Now the Brazilians are headed back for Brazil, the Portuguese are seeking jobs in Brazil and Angola and the Portuguese hospitals are fully staffed with Spanish nurses. The Spanish nurses take the jobs at lower salaries than what they could make in Spain, but there are no jobs there.
I've been working on a comparison of the PbC and UltraBattery regarding cycle life, charge acceptance, and charge-time using apples-to-apples data (same cycling regimen).
So I have a document I expect to post soon, but first I'm hoping that a couple of the more tech savy among us might agree to take a look at my work in private to make sure there are no glaring errors that would mislead, and to answer a couple questions that would help me complete the comparison. Please PM me if interested in helping.
While we're on the topic of SS in auto's I wanted to post this link which I've not reviewed for about a month. I had posted it on brand x and don't recall if it made it here. I had a nice conversation with Kirk on the topic and he provided some good insight but of coarse he is a gentleman and shared only what he could relative to PBC based on his former position.
In the PbC white paper there's a graph on page 7 that helps add some clarity on charge efficiency issues.
And it's the same for LAB's as well. Exactly where they don't want to spend their lives. At PSOC. But it's where the user wants them to be because they want to make sure the system can opportunity charge and they want the charging functions to be delivering the energy in the range where the storage device is most efficient.
That's the whole idea behind using a 16-volt PbC. When you take a 16-volt PbC down to an 80% state of charge and cycle it within a few percentage points of the target, its voltage will stay in the sweet-spot range of 12-V to 14-V for auto accessories. In addition, simply measuring the battery's voltage gives you an very accurate measure of the state of charge without counting watts in and out.
Hey Bang, Went to your link collector site and didn't find this 2010 Gibson Barbee presentation under rail links. I like it because it shows the broad spectrum of batteries NS considered.
You are an absolute jewell Iindelco!
John, One of the things I've found hard is that even though I read the concentrators to a pretty high degree long before I joined SA I am not able to accurately assess if all of the stuff that went into the soup at brand x also made it here. Documents like these are nice to have reviewed when you're trying to better understand Axion for sure.
I've always assumed that after the Version 1 debacle NS would not build Version 2 unless they had a very high level of confidence that it would succeed. NASA does long-term double redundant system testing all the time, but they're dealing with rockets and satellites. Seeing a comparable effort from a railroad suggests to me that they really want the battery solution to work and they're ready to get behind the concept in a big way if they can make it work.
>JP ... You have to know that Railroads are behind battery power in a big way. Look at the speed that the GreenGoat took off from prototype to 175 units in what ... 3 years. The normal development timeline for most anything in rails is prototype (1 year testing), demonstrator (a few units 3 years in vastly different working environs), adoption (a few more in heavy traffic 1-3 years), then orders. Not really a group of folks to latch on to things quickly. In fact the last thing I can think of that ripped through the industry in less than a decade was diesel electric. It even took longer than that to get rid of the caboose.
Please correct me if I'm wrong on this point, but it's my understanding that RailPower Technologies fooled around with a single Green Goat for a couple years before offering it for sale and that the 175 units RailPower sold in short order were destined for longer term demonstration projects by different roads under different conditions.
>JP ... You are correct that the GG was prototyped for a several years prior to being put out. Unit sales of 175 is a huge number to consider as purely demonstrators. Attached is a list of locos produced and quantity (a little dated) and I'll let you make up your mind where demonstrator & production might lay. There is no real definition to the term.
The root of my thought process invariably goes back to my college studies in accounting that included a fair chunk of statistics. When I think of switchers or OTR units as expensive pieces of rolling stock, I want to minimize the number of units needed for a test. When I look at a nationwide rolling stock census of 21,400 OTR locomotives and 2,000 switcher and auxiliary units (excluding Canada and Mexico) I'm forced to a much larger testing and demonstration fleet if I want to end up with a statistically valid long-term study.
>JP ... I am no soothe-sayer either. My take on the number of GG's sold says "production" more than "demo" because of the number of smaller roads that jumped in. Port authorities, freight interconnects and the like as well as the majors. It is my opinion that the Railroads are not in the least bit interested in "compliance locomotives" or compliance at all. The GG experiment showed a hunger to reduce fuel & operating expense and that hunger has only grown. The only argument I have for smaller number of truly demonstrator locos would be that there are so many fewer managements to make a production decision.
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I go back periodically to see how many times OMY can talk to himself/herself in a row. It's kind of funny. Without IINDelco, me, and some others who have basically left the Yahoo site to come over here, all OMY and Sockpuppet can do is talk to themselves...over, and over, and over again! You will be happy to know that OMY does use your name to make a point every once in a while. Any time you, or anyone else on this concentrator say they sell some stock, OMY uses it as a reason to show why Axion is going to fail!
The load profile graphs on Page 7 of the Barbee presentation are almost enough to make me ill. Those are vicious charge-discharge swings and the fact that the PbC is the best of breed when it comes to handling that kind of variability speaks volumes about how it can perform in grid applications.
Yep, Like trying to capture lightening in a bottle.
>iindelco ... There is nothing that keeps trains and airplanes from being operated as completely autonomous now. The only reason that keeps people in the cab are those little things that happen everyday that programmers haven't coded for.
DRich, Thanks and understood.
>iindelco ... I'm not one to worry too much about the terror aspect in daily life. It does happen, has happened & will happen again. Just the cost of living with liberty and not worth ceding our rights & power for "safety", but it seems to be a minority view ... people must enjoy being afraid.
I've lived without broadcast TV for 14 years now and have come to view it as the most manipulative thing in the world because it takes distant problems and transports them into your living room. There's undoubtedly some tin-foil hat thinking involved, but I tend to believe that all manner of people manipulate TV content for less than honorable purposes.
Yep! I do believe that your definition of "liberal" is out of line with current thinking! More likely along the lines of older definitions, such as I believe I adhere to on social issues.
I kind of like the direction that this comment trail is going. I've moved toward steering away from categorizing the messenger toward qualifying the message. I think it's the groups of people that have self interests that are working hard to try to get us to focus on the messenger.
Since we've been wondering about who's been selling, this latest fails-to-deliver might offer a clue - note a vlume jump in the middle of the list. Could be just a technical glitch causing a delay, but don't want to assume. Also note the prices are price on the day the failure is determined. The price at time of sale was prior. Looking at my VWAP charts and allowing for time of sale as far as two weeks prior, $0.425-$0.455 seems possible.
siliconhillbilly, contributorComments (2730) | + Follow Following - UnfollowThis is a bit OT, but it goes along with the data center backup power concepts that could include the PowerCube.
I've read of computer hobbyists and gamers making their own oil-immersed PC's....they were the first to start with water cooling too IIRC.... it's always amazing how the insatiable fiendish need for speed, thrills, recreation, FPS, top-dog status never ceases to drive that giver of life: competitive innovation ... as for me, my idea is to co-locate server farms with big swimming-pool aquatic centers...just use the servers to heat the pools! Bwaahhaahhaaa!!!
"Los Angeles Plans Pilot of Siemens eHighway"
Da ya think somewhat misleading??????
I was just at Havard Square last week... didn't think to look for charging stations. The place was hoppin' with all the new grads. Never got to roam MIT though... maybe next time. Ironically, Liquid Metal Battery company was only a block and a half from my Hotel, but I didn't have time to check it out.
OT (for the most part) JP> Here's a lithium Ion application from your neck of the woods. Pretty interesting. http://cnet.co/LAAlDp
Thanks for the link. It has cool factor, but isn't very practical. Light weight with a 200 foot wing span would make it fairly delicate, a glider with an electric motor (like the gossamer penguin circa 1980). http://bit.ly/KP8r5P
I know a private company that's working on a solution. They've built two prototypes of a Class 8 tractor with a series diesel-electric hybrid drivetrain that reportedly gets 12 mpg with a 50,000 pound load.
Labtech: Yes. US 1 is supposedly running a test truck or two, PACAR (KW and Peterbuilt) running some around test tracks, Artisan Systems has one on the road (several articles on the web about it) and Wrightspeed is converting delivery trucks.
A Nissan GT-R crashed into a BYD e6 taxi at high speed in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen early on Saturday. The all-electric battery car caught fire and three people were killed, Chinese media reported, citing police.
A more detailed report by a Chinese media for those who can read Chinese.
The pictures in the Chinese newspaper are a slide-show.
A little more detail, in English.
Here's an English blog from the region with several pictures.
metroneanderthal, contributorThe insurance industry may be smelling the coffee soon if there are further fires, burnt down garages, etc. Although I can think of more than one case of automobile and garage fires attributable to gasoline powered vehicles, it would seem that battery powered cars are statistically more susceptible. The insurance actuaries are now working overtime as we laze away the long weekend.
What is the difference between an extroverted and an introverted actuary?
The introverted actuary stares at their feet when speaking, the extroverted actuary stares at your feet when speaking.
metro, the problem with the lithium batteries is that they can just catch fire for no reason. Usually batteries or gas needs some kind of instigation to get them going. If I don't mess around with my car, there is basically nothing that will cause my car to go up in flames. You could leave your EV in the garage for a month without touching it, and for no reason your house burns down. Two very different things when it comes to the dangers of it.
metroneanderthal, contributorbattman,
I understand what you are saying, but at the same time my friend was just driving down the street and her car caught fire and was a total loss. (She didn't have a fire extinguisher and the fire dept was slow to react) I don't recall what the problem was with the car, but she hadn't been messing with it, it was only about two years old, and she kept it maintained at Volkswagen. Knowing her economic situation, I'm guessing she didn't spend a lot of "under the hood" time.
When they find out how to suppress the growth of "whiskers", a lot of the risk should be removed. Recent investigations such this as the failure mode when internal shorts are created.
Yeah, LiFePo4 is one of the safer chemistries which is why it's being used for larger format batteries. Problem is it's a power battery with reduced energy vs cobalt based designs. Thus more mass/unit energy storage. BYD is using this chemistry. I remember when the CEO was giving a plant tour when Warren Buffet bought his position the CEO took a drink of the electrolyte to prove how environmentally safe their green battery is.
I like that. Especially interesting to me was the repeated flares as successive cells became affected and contributed their bit when they failed.
Hey HTL, Smiled when I saw this.
Yeah, it looks familiar. What stuck in my mind from the first reading was wondering if, using this technique, there was a possibility of bringing $/KwH of Li-based batteries into competitive range with PbC.
Be interesting to see how EV's fare this summer, and dead of winter when summer is over. I drove from Yuma, Arizona to San Diego across the desert once and stopped in Buckeye, AZ for a few minutes.When I got to my hotel the weather channel said the hottest temperature in the nation that day was in Buckeye, AZ 116 degrees. I only knew it was hotter than hell.
Follow up on you're risky bet Bang. :)
Yeah Bang. Family vacation starting in S.F. Rented car (First time gas hit 4+ USD in Cali and they wanted to upgrade me from a full sized Buick to a full sized SUV. Said no thanks and ended up with a Chrysler L/H full sized car. Yeah I wanted that SUV gas hog.). Anyway after S.F. did the drive to the Grand Canyon and then over the Bolder dam. The route took me through Nevada. Man, Dry heat isn't so bad my behind! It was freakin HOT!
Back to JP's lead supply topic.
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My wife told me the other day she wants to get a divorce. I don't know if I'm prepared to go through the litigation and the court battle that would ensue, so after a lengthy discussion I convinced her to stay with me and I promised to buy her a new car. I'm getting her the Fisker Karma ;-)
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Moore's law? well ya... it just doesn't apply...
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It tried 5 times and this will be its 6 time.
BK is a certain thing. Employees may keep their jobs but shareholders will lose all the money invested. Only fool still hold the penny stock.
Sentiment: Strong Sell
It won't happen.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Long and short are fighting hard and eventually long will win. The stock is depressed big and earnings will speak eventually.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
risky bet. both filed bk 11 already. trading can be halted at anytime. Those gamblers soon or later will lose all of their money.
Too many sellers who want to book their profits. No buyers.
it will take over AAPL as number for sure.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
will be seen soon. Pull back is done.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
ESI is today's #10 top gainer, up 17% while market down nearly 1%.
ESI short covering started and investors took notice from it.
ESI is cheap, book value 6.70, PE only 2.
This board has long been dominated by 2-3 shorts. One is ESI math teacher, who only get paid $10 - $15 hour. Another is ex-ESI graduate with high debt but cannot find good paying jobs. Each of these two are posting 50-100 posts per day.
Stock is bottomed at 2.00 and will go back to 3.00 soon. Year target still 5-6.
I am the one with you. KMI is a strong buy. KMI recent dividend cut is a smart move. It can use the money for its further expansion plan. KMI is shareholder friendly. Its chairman only tales $1 salary and no stock options. His future is completely tied to stocks, 10.99% holdings. KMI is a fee based company. Good business model.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
If it drops to under 53, it is better.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Strong support at 26-29 area.
KMI has down 5 days in a row and all the way dropped from $18.80 - $16.8 down nearly 9.00% in 13 days. Unbelievable. 13 is a magic number. Can it bring some luck to this stock?
Recent weakness may be due to Canadian fire. I have been watching this stock for a long time and have not pulled the buy trigger and may buy it next week if the stock can hold at $16.86 level, its key support. If not, I will wait to buy it at year low, which I think will unlikely to see as oil has moved up from 26 to 46 last three months.
$32 is never a support. $28.92, $26.00 are the two important support.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
What is it? How can ED return the deposit back to ESI?
I do agree that if enrollment continues decline, ESI will have difficulty to survive. Will wait until next Q earning release to see how well the company does. No position. Just made $ by playing short term call option, gamble money.
earning next Monday?
RAS - strong buy. I bought it for the second time at $2.00, which give me 18% yield.
The last time buy was on 2009 when it was $1.50 stock. Since my buy, I already received 2.51/share dividend.
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RE: Marine reserves not enough: report
Kieran made this Freedom of Information request to Marine Council
Marine Council did not have the information requested.
From: Kieran
Dear Marine Council,
Why are marine life that are endemic to Australia put at risk of
being extinct for the benifit of coal seam gas companies?
Please supply documentation to support this
One only needs to look to the damage to where this industry has
reaked mysery to the people, animals, wildlife and the enviornment
of America.
I hate to point out the obvious, but these animals have taken a few
billion years to come to be in their present state and it looks
like these CSG merchants of death will will be sending these
animals which should be given proper respect for what they truly
are, an important part of the enviornment.
Their welfare is our responsibility and we as humans should not be
looking the other way.
1, Can you please tell me on what legal basis a coal seam gas
corporation has to drive these animals to extinction?
2, Who is responsible for the approval of liscences to these
3, Who is responsible for the demise of marine life due to coal
seam gas?
4, Will these CSG companies be fined for their enviornmental damage
Please supply this information in the form of .PDF files
Yours faithfully,
From: FOI
Marine Council
Dear Kieran
Thank you for your email below. Unfortunately I do not think that we are the correct Department to help with this request. I have asked various business areas within this Department and they have confirmed that we are not involved in the licencing or control of Coal Seam Gas mining. To our knowledge the Marine Council would not have been involved either. It may be worth noting that the Marine Council has not operated in some years.
In relation to the environmental impacts of offshore mining the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities may be able to help however mining licences etc. may also be granted by various state authorities depending on location.
I hope this is of assistance and please do not hesitate to call me if you would like to discuss further.
Kind regards
Allison Kenna
FOI Coordinator
Governance, Planning and Reporting
Department of Infrastructure and Transport
Level 4 East, 62 Northbourne Avenue, Canberra
Phone: 02 6274 7844
Fax: 02 6275 1347
Please note that I do not work on Wednesdays
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>It may be worth noting that the Marine Council has not operated in some years.
I've added a note to this authority to that effect: http://www.righttoknow.org.au/body/marin...
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The authority should transfer the request for you to the correct one. You shouldn't have to make the request again. See
Matthew Landauer left an annotation ()
Kieran - I suggest replying to the department with that link
From: Kieran
Dear Marine Council,
Can you please transfer my request to the correct department, so
that they might be able to help me
For your reference:
Yours faithfully,
From: FOI
Marine Council
Dear Kieran
Thank you for your email below. Please note that we do not consider your
original email to be a valid request for documents under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 and as such I have not transferred it to another
agency which may be able to provide you with assistance.
As mentioned we would suggest that perhaps the Department of
Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities may be able
to assist. You might wish to consult the website and guidelines of the
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Please note that FOI is a legally enforceable right to access existing
documents in the possession of an Australian Government agency. A agency
is not obliged to answer questions or create documents to satisfy an FOI
As stated the Department of Infrastructure and Transport are not involved
in Coal Seam Gas Mining and as such we are not the correct Department to
handle this matter.
Allison Kenna
FOI Coordinator
Governance, Planning and Reporting
Department of Infrastructure and Transport
Level 4 East, 62 Northbourne Avenue, Canberra
Phone: 02 6274 7844
Fax: 02 6275 1347
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It's not hard to understand how a buy back affects book value (BV) if you think about the extreme cases.
1) They liquidate everything and buy back the shares at a price that is higher than the BV per share. In this scenario they run out of money before they can buy all the shares so obviously the BV per share goes to zero for the remaining shares and thus BV per share goes down when buying back shares at a price higher than BV per share.
2) They liquidate everything and buy back the shares at a price that is less than the BV per share. In this scenario they end up with a mountain of money before all the shares are bought back so those remaining shares have a very high BV per share and thus BV per share goes up when buying back shares at a price lower than BV per share.
3) They liquidate everything and buy back the shares at a price that is equal to the BV per share. In this scenario they end up with exactly nothing when all the shares are bought back or when they buy the last share they do it with their last dollars which is equal to the amount of that last share and thus BV per share remains unchanged when buying back shares at a price equal to the BV per share.
However, scenarios 1 and 2 are fictional because as the BV per share started to rise or fall so would the share price to match it as sellers saw that their shares were becoming worth less or more and thus they would adjust the price accordingly. But it is easier to understand the concept in these simpler terms so I stated it as such.
Currently the book value per share is higher than the share price so if they were to start buying back shares today the BV per share would go up. However, realizing this, investors will drive the price up and thus the share price should converge on BV per share or over shoot it as investors often cause to happen as they over react.
500 Million is only about 5% of the total book value so I would not expect anything out of the ordinary to happen. My guess is the stock price will increase to book value at least and maybe even more but it won't skyrocket.
What are the implications of the buy back in my opinion? It says to me that AGNC would rather stop buying lower interest rate loans so that their spread does not decrease any further. Nothing more. And as long as they are not paying more than BV per share I would suspect that there is nothing to be concerned about as an investor. Who cares if the amount they have invested in mortgages goes down as long as there are fewer shares to reflect that smaller amount of investment and this BV per share is not impacted. All it means is that there won't be as many shares for people to own. It also means that AGNC is not buying these cheap loans which will not be worth as much when interest rates start to rise again. In my opinion it is a good thing. They are doing exactly what they should be doing. If the fed keeps this up then I suspect that AGNC will continue to buy back shares as home owners refinance. So what, as long as BV per share remains unchanged.
In this current scenario I would rate AGNC a buy. But that is my personal opinion. Make your own decision. I'm buying more.


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Boneless Veal Scallopini
|Boneless veal leg round steak
|3⁄4 Pound, cut 1/4 inch thick
|Nonstick spray coating
|1 Tablespoon
|Dry sherry
|3 Tablespoon
|2 Tablespoon
|Instant chicken bouillon granules
|3⁄4 Teaspoon
|1 Dash
|Sliced fresh mushrooms
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Snipped parsley
|1 Tablespoon
Trim separable fat from veal steak.
Cut veal into 4 pieces; pound to 1/8-inch thickness.
Spray a cold 12-inch skillet with nonstick coating.
Preheat skillet over medium heat.
Cook veal in hot skillet for 2 to 3 minutes or till no longer pink, turning once.
Remove from skillet; cover with foil to keep warm.
For sauce, in the same skillet stir together dry sherry, water, instant chicken bouillon granules, and pepper.
Stir in mushrooms.
Bring to boiling, stirring to scrape up browned bits from bottom.
Boil, uncovered, about 3 minutes or till most of the liquid has evaporated.
Pour over veal.
Sprinkle with snipped parsley.
Rate It
Nutrition Rank
Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 564 Calories from Fat 166
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 19 g28.5%
Saturated Fat 3.6 g18.2%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 265.3 mg88.4%
Sodium 1415.4 mg59%
Total Carbohydrates 16 g5.2%
Dietary Fiber 2.3 g9.2%
Sugars 3.1 g
Protein 78 g156.9%
Vitamin A 25.3% Vitamin C 39.6%
Calcium 4.3% Iron 25.3%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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Sunday, February 15, 2009
Featured Site Seeing: Cara Community
Today's featured site is Cara Community, hosted by Bill Cara. His week in review post is an excellent review of economic data, sector performance, bonds and yields, commodities, and more. His commentaries and community chats also bring considerable feedback from readers, often in response to his strongly held views.
My favorite sites are ones which make me look at data in new ways, think about new issues, and view old issues in new ways. I believe that's what Cara Community is trying to accomplish.
2 comments:
- ninja 6 said...
Readers of Cara's blog should be aware that it is also used as a marketing tool for CTAB, his trading company and that his writing style is different from his trading style. There are some interesting comments from some readers though.
- Bill said...
ninja 6, you are quite correct about writing and trading. As a discretionary portfolio manager, I trade first and foremost to protect capital, being aggressive only at times. In my writing, as Brett points out I take stronger views, but I do that mostly to generate commentary in the Discourse section.
As you know there are two sides to every trade, and none of us are going to be right a whole lot more than 50% of the time unless we are cheating, as some do.
Btw, I retired at the start of 2000, then starting blogging at Easter 2004, then in June 2006 I contemplated writing a book, which I did in Bahamas at the top of the market during the summer of 2007. In 2008, I decided to come out of retirement, and became registered to trade in securities professionally within the past year, here in Bahamas and with the SEC. So, my writing preceded my pro trading by four and a half years, and was started because I was bored during retirement and then had to care for dieing parents, speaking daily to my Dad who had traded with a discount broker every day until the prior year at the age of 86.
Because of the book and the blog, the trading business has been profitable from the month I started. From my blog, I recruited 14 contractors from around the world to help me with research, computers, admin, teaching and trading. They have no risk, and I pay them monthly. I live on the beach beside Sandals Resort in Nassau, and couldn't be happier with my life. I just turned 67.
The best, though, will always be giving things back to society, sharing what I can. I ask for nothing in return, and the CaraCommunity.com website is free of commercials other than a link to my site. I started an annual conference in Bahamas, which is non-commercial and open to anybody to come and learn. Over and above what people paid, it cost me $25,000, and the 2010 conference will possibly cost me twice as much. The experience was incredible; there were people from all over the world attending, many with tears in their eyes when they left. Emotion is what drives me outside the market because in it I have to contain those emotions.
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Home made or commercial compost is a good source of organic matter for the garden. Compost provides a food source for beneficial soil organisms, enhancing the soil food web and releasing nutrients over the long term.
A home compost bin is an environmentally sound method to convert yard wastes into a valuable soil-building resource. Using compost has also been found to suppress some soil borne plant disease pathogens in certain situations.
Home compost has the advantage that the gardener controls what goes into the compost pile and can avoid weed seeds, diseased plants and salt problems.
There are many bagged compost based products available in the retail trade. They can be any combination of plant residues, manure, and/or biosolids. Some products also have added rock minerals or animal by-products. These bagged products are usually more expensive than manure and compost supplies available in bulk. They provide a long-term release of nutrients and add organic matter to soils, improving soil physical properties.
In Colorado, compost is unregulated. Materials sold as "compost" could be anything (plant materials, manure, biosolids, animal by-products, etc.) and could be at any stage of decomposition. Not all "composts" are good for the soil.
Application Rates and Salt Problems
General application rates for compost are based on the salt content of the compost and soil and on the depth to which it is cultivated into the soil. Ideally, cultivate the compost into the top six to eight inches of the soil. In compacted/clayey soils, anything less can lead to a shallow rooting system with reduced plant growth, lower vigor, and lower stress tolerance.
Table 1 gives standard application rates for compost. Compost made solely from plant residues (leaves and other yard wastes) is basically free of salt problems and higher application rates are safe.
|Table 1. Routine Application Rate for Soil Amendments
Incorporation Depth 2
Depth of Compost Before Incorporation 1
Plant-Based Compost
and other compost know to be low in salts3
Compost Made with Manure or Biosolids for which the salt content in unknown 4
|One-time application - such as lawn area to be planted
6-8 inches
2-3 inches
1 inch
|Annual applications to vegetable and flower gardens - first three years
6-8 inches
2-3 inches
1 inch
|Annual applications to vegetable and flower gardens - fourth year and beyond
6-8 inches
1-2 inches
1 inch
1Three cubic yards (67 bushels) covers 1,000 square feet approximately 1 inch deep.
2Cultivate compost into the top 6-8 inches of the soil. In compacted/clayey soils, anything less may result in a shallow rooting depth predisposing plants to reduced growth, low vigor and low stress tolerance.
3Plant-based composts are derived solely from plant materials (leaves, grass clippings, wood chips and other wards wastes). Use this application rate also for other compost known, by soil test, to be low in salts.
4Use this application rate for any compost made with manure or biosolids unless the salt content is known, by soil test, to be low. Excessive salts are common in many commercially available products sold in Colorado. For a few products in the market with extremely high salt levels, even this low rate may be too high.
Compost that includes manure or biosolids as a component has a potential for high salts. Excessive salt levels are common in many commercially available products sold in Colorado. For compost made with manure or biosolids the application rate is limited unless a soil test on that batch of product shows a low salt level. An amendment with up to 10 dS/m (10 mmhos/cm) total salt is acceptable if incorporated six to eight inches deep in a low-salt garden soil (less than 1 dS/m or 1 mmhos/cm). Any amendment with a salt level above 10 dS/m (10 mmhos/cm) is questionable.
Note: dS/m or mmhos/cm is the unit used to measure salt content. It measures the electrical conductivity of the soil.
Compost needs to be thoroughly mixed into the upper six to eight inches of the soil profile. Do not leave compost in chunks, as this will interfere with root growth and soil water movement.
As the soil organic content builds in a garden soil, the application rate should be reduced to prevent ground water contamination issues. A soil test is suggested every four to six years to establish a base line on soil organic matter content.
Nitrogen Release is Slow!
Typical nutrient content includes 1.5% to 3.5% nitrogen, 0.5% to 1% phosphate, and 1% to 2% potash, plus micronutrients. Thus compost is more of a soil conditioner than a fertilizer. In gardens where compost is routinely added, phosphorus and potassium levels are likely to be adequate.
As in other organic soil amendments, the nitrogen release rate from compost will be very slow, (i.e., over a period of years). When the organic content is below 4-5%, additional supplemental organic or manufactured nitrogen fertilizer may be needed.
- 4-5% Organic Matter – Soils with 4-5% organic matter from compost will mineralize (release to plants) about 0.2 pound of nitrogen per 100 square feet per year. This should be sufficient for plant nitrogen needs.
- 2-3% Organic Matter – Soils with 2-3% organic matter from compost will mineralize about 0.1 pound of nitrogen per 100 square feet per year. Additional nitrogen fertilizer will be needed for high nitrogen crops like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, potatoes, and corn.
- <2% Organic Matter – In soils with less than 2% organic matter, the release rate for nitrogen will be too low to adequately provide the nitrogen needed for crop growth. A supplemental organic or manufactured nitrogen fertilizer may be needed.
Beware of Unfinished Compost
Finished compost is dark and crumbly, does not resemble the original contents and has an earthy smell. Compost that has not thoroughly processed could be "hot" with high ammonia content. This could burn plant roots (when applied to the soil) or plant leaves (when applied as a mulch). If the compost smells like ammonia, it should be processed longer or be worked into the soil at least one month prior to seeding or transplanting in the area.
Compost maturity can be assessed in a laboratory by measuring the carbon dioxide (CO2) production by the microorganisms living in the material. Lower levels of CO2 indicate more mature compost (i.e. microbial activity is low because they have used the available nitrogen to decompose the carbon in the compost). Conversely, if microbes are producing CO2, they are consuming oxygen (O2). Unfinished compost can consume all of the O2 from the root zone and greatly inhibit root growth. Finished compost should smell earthy, like healthy soil, not like ammonia..
When making compost at home, it is advisable to turn the pile when the compost pile temperatures drop below 120ºF and before the compost pile temperatures exceed 160ºF. To encourage active microorganism processing, moisten the pile so that it feels like a wrung-out sponge. When temperatures do not rise above 120ºF after turning to reheat, compost has entered its curing stage. It should cure for 45 days before being considered finished. This curing period allows nitrogen and other chemical constituents to stabilize into forms suitable for placement around plants.
Weed Seeds and Diseased Plants
It is advisable not to compost diseased plants or weeds loaded with seeds. If the compost pile did not heat adequately or was not turned, the compost could be a source of weed seeds or plant disease pathogens. All parts of the compost should reach 145ºF to kill weed seeds and plant disease pathogens. Because only the inner layers of the pile will reach this temperature, it is important that the outer layers are folded into the inner layers and the pile is allowed to reheat to 145ºF. These temperatures must be maintained for at least 3 days. Temperatures of 130ºF will somewhat minimize weed seeds and pathogens.
Livestock manure (horse, sheep, cow, swine, etc.) can also be a source of weed seeds in compost if the animals were fed hay with weed seeds or if seeds blew into a pile of manure.
Pet Manure
Do not add companion animal (cat, dog, etc.) feces to compost as this increases the incidence of nuisance animals rummaging through the compost pile and disease transmission to humans.
- Colorado Master Gardener GardenNotes are available online at www.cmg.colostate.edu
- Colorado Master Gardener training is made possible by a grant from the Colorado Garden Show, Inc.
- Colorado State University, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Colorado counties cooperating
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- No endorsements of products mentioned is intended nor is criticism implied of products not mentioned.
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Updated Wednesday, January 13, 2016 by Mary Small


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