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Chuck we want to make you a Natcore TV Star:
Here is an e-mail I sent to Chuck Provin which could not get through because it exceeded his e-mail quota, I think that is a good sign. I also sent it to VP Tom Scarpa it did get through.
Chuck:
The Natcore investor members of PinnacleDigest, StockHouse Canada and Investor Hub are spear heading a campaign by sending e-mails to Fox News Channel to do a repeat more in depth broadcast at a better time and to get CNN to feature Natcore. Chuck you did an excellent interview on Fox & Friends. We got to make you a Natcore TV star.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The message you sent to natcoresolar.com/provini was rejected because it would exceed the quota for the mailbox.
The subject of the message follows: CNN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fantastic ART2004 hopefully we will make Chuck Provini a Natcore TV star.
I just received this message from CNN.
Thank you for this submission. The Viewer Communications Management team reviews and summarizes story ideas, and distributes them to appropriate news divisions for consideration. If it is decided the story is something of interest that can be developed for on-air reporting, you may be contacted for more information.
Because of the volume of story suggestions we receive, we are unable to reply with information on whether or not it will be used.
Thank you again for sending it our way.
CNN Viewer Communications Management
Please contact them the more e-mails they get the more likely they will put Natcore on CNN. Tell them about the company appearing on ABC News Hour and Fox News Channel.
To request a story on Natcore from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form11b.html?2
This another good suggestion from a very enthusiastic new investor in Natcore who posts on PinnacleDigest, he suggests we contact CNN to ask them to interview a representative of Natcore, as did ABC News Hour and Fox News Channel. I just finished doing so and I urge others to do the same.
To request a story on Natcore from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form11b.html?2
GREEN TECHNOLOGY REPORT
By: Jonathan T. Orr
As the developed and developing worlds work urgently toward a globally sustainable energy future for all mankind, the all too human tendency toward ‘magical thinking’ becomes very dangerous in our pursuit of answers. We will never again be able to rely on one source of energy such as fossil fuels to power our relentless expansion and indeed our core civilizing concepts of progress and human development will need to be drastically re-thought and revised if we are to have a future at all. In a world more deeply interconnected economically, technologically and socially than at any other point in human history,any bright future we might conjure for ourselves will be one based on a patient, broad and deep set of strategies and techniques pursued over time.
Any feasible future global energy solutions will be developed through the pursuit of a combination of renewable energy sources and new technologies such as solar power, wind energy, hydroelectric power and others yet to be discovered, rather than the one hoped for new energy source or wondrous breakthrough.
However, many of these alternative energy sources and solar power in particular face one very daunting fact: as the present technology stands it requires massive and politically unpalatable government subsidies to make solar cost-competitive with conventional power.
Natcore Solar (NXT.V) are in the market to prove this wrong.
Breakthrough Process Creates Hyper Efficient Solar Cells
Speaking as boldly as the sun itself, Brien Lundin Chairman and Director, says of the company's breakthrough process for the manufacture of solar cells, that it will “ ...will make solar power cost competitive with conventional power”.
Natcore Solar believes that with its exclusive thin film technology applied to the manufacture of super efficient silicon solar cells, it will be able to soon close the economic gap between solar power and conventional energy production and allow solar to become a completely viable and central part of our sustainable energy mix. To say nothing of increasingly profitable.
Within the prism of glittering possibilities for alternative energy, solar power is seen as the energy source with the most potential and as the one most fraught with economic and technological challenges. There it is in the sky everyday, heating our world day in and day out over millennia, but how to capture that evanescent ray of light and harness its vast power in a financially feasible way? Solar unarguably provides clean and abundant energy; we can all agree that we will never face the calamity of Peak Solar. In discussions of Solar energy the word that most often ends up in article headlines is Viability.
With current cell manufacturing technique solar power cannot yet compete with conventional power economically. With solar energy the challenge is different than with fossil fuels and other traditional power sources: the usual questions of a reliable source to not enter into the equation, what is required is simply to make it cost far less to produce. This is precisely the aim of Natcore and it's pursuit of thin-film growth technology.
The Holy Grail Of Solar Power
Within the solar power industry there exist a myriad of approaches and techniques being applied to achieve this goal, many of which are guilty of the same kind of wishful thinking found in the conventional energy world. Many companies are trying to create a total solution and a perfected process when what is really required to make solar energy viable as soon as possible are more focused achievements such as improving the conversion efficiencies of silicon cells while lowering their manufacturing costs and investing in practical refinements to already existing technologies.
This is the strategy Natcore Technology has been employing for sometime.
Natcore Technology is the sole licensee of a remarkable new thin-film growth technology from Rice University that may yield very significant improvements in costs and efficiencies in silicon wafer manufacturing, the building blocks of all solar power systems. Natcore’s liquid phase deposition technology will enable the solar cell industry to reduce silicon wafer thicknesses by up to two-thirds, which in turn will vastly improve output efficiencies and expand profit margins.
As explained by Natcore’s science team:
Silicon dioxide, or silica, is a fundamental building block in semiconductors, fiber optics and solar cells. It is an absolutely essential element in all these applications, and it is currently deposited onto silicon through a process called “Thermal Oxide Growth.” This process uses complicated, multi-million-dollar furnaces, operating in a vacuum and at temperatures of up to 1,000º Celsius (1,800º Fahrenheit), to grow the necessary thin films of silicon dioxide. In contrast, Natcore’s “Liquid Phase Deposition” (LPD) process simply grows these thin films of silicon dioxide in mild chemical baths using standard, low-cost equipment. Because Natcore’s process is so mild, it allows for much thinner silicon wafers, as well as the development of advanced materials and devices that would be destroyed during the standard Thermal Oxide Growth process.
Natcore’s LPD process has been independently tested and verified by one of America’s most respected laboratories and is ready to be used today in the manufacturing of highly efficient new solar cells, semiconductor devices, optical and optoelectronic components, prescriptive and protective eye wear, and energy-saving architectural coatings, among many other uses.
While the science behind solar energy is as necessarily complex as the sun itself, the market potential of Natcore’s unique ability to create super thin silicon wafers for commercial application is as clear the light our star produces.
With a conventional non-tandem cell costing approximately $540 to manufacture, Natcore's hyper efficient tandem technology can instantly double the efficiency and profitability of that cell. As Mr. Provini points out, with the aim of claiming a 10 percent market share every year for the licensing of this exclusive process, the company would stand to make an average of 500 million dollars per year in royalty revenue. Mr. Provini spoke to us with excitment and confidence about an going series of announcements from their Tandem Cell Research Program that will soon confirm the viability of this technology.
Bright investors will take this chance to invest in the illumination of a truly sustainable solar energy future.
Follow the company’s progress at:http://www.natcoresolar.com
For anyone who would like to email FOX commending them on the Chuck Provini interview, the email address is:
friends@foxnews.com
If there are enough positive responses, they may do a follow up at a better hour. They would be performing a good public service if more people could see a more in depth interview of a representative from Natcore explaining in greater detail the benefits of Natcore's solar technology for the advancement of the industry.
Excellent interview and fantastic publicity for Natcore.
I particularily like the fact they kept running captions on the bottom of the interview stating " Natcore Technology Cheaper, Efficient way to make solar panels" and "Will decrease Cost, Energy Usage and Damage"
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4279204/red-tape-sends-entrepreneur-overseas
Link to interview on Fox & Friends
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4279204/red-tape-sends-entrepreneur-overseas
CEO Chuck Provini to appear on Fox News Channel
Tomorrow morning at 7:20am EDT Natcore CEO Chuck Provini will be interviewed on “FOX & Friends” which is a FOX News Channel morning show. They are interested in discussing the China joint venture and no doubt what happened at the White House.
The World is Coming to Natcore.
Natcore is being inundated with calls from companies around the world interesed in their solar technology.
So you can expect more good news coming from the company, in the not to distant future.
Natcore has informed me the following statement posted is incorrect Quantum Materials Inc nano particle licence from Rice University is not any part of Natcore's reguirement to develop the full potential of their technology.
Valuable Rice patent licence maybe up for grabs?
I have holdings in Natcore, and am wondering if anyone here has contacts with the firm. My research has noticed that Quantum Materials Inc, (Solterrra Renewable Technologies) may be about to default on their licence to use the Rice patent covering the mass production of nano particles, which are essential to develop the full potential of Natcore's technology.
Natcore is open to examine the technology in respect to nano particles if reguested by Rice University to see if it would be advantageous for the company to have the licence.
I am very pleased with the developments in Natcore. I am surprised at it's stock performance in light of those events. Regardless I am even more confident that NXT will be going much, much higher in price. This is obviously not a pump and dump stock it is a company with very smart people running it and developing it's technology.
I along with others could have sold shares when they were higher, I did not and advised others not too and even consider adding to their positions or even starting positions if they did not have shares in the company.
Capturing the up or down movements in NXT is peanuts compared to what the shareholders will ulitimately make in the company. I for one do not want to take a chance on missing the really big pay off I see coming in NXT.
I am absolutly thrilled with the company, I feel those who do not have their full positions or those considering buying it should do so now.
I also added Natcore's trading symbol in a comment, your's got buried by other comments.
News Story Featuring Natcore.
The network’s website, ABCnews.com, also published an extensive news story featuring Natcore. You can read it at
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/clean-energy-china-ahead-us/story?id=10934443
News Story Featuring Natcore.
The network’s website, ABCnews.com, also published an extensive news story featuring Natcore. You can read it at
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/clean-energy-china-ahead-us/story?id=10934443
I spoke to Natcore VP Tom Scarpa more good news is coming!!
Terriffic!! I got more NXT shares today!!
I am a very happy man luckily I bought more shares of Natcore yesterday at 80 cents and I bought more today at 89 and 90 cents.
NXT interviewed on ABC Nightly News
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/american-company-takes-solar-technology-china-10935609
Here is a link to the ABC Interview.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/american-company-takes-solar-technology-china-10935609
Natcore Interviewed On ABC NIGHTLY NEWS
WOW !!! I am speechless!!
I just saw an explanation about NXT on ABC and CEO Chuck Provini being interviewed in China were they talked about the deal they were making with them, employing hundreds of workers.
FANTASTIC INTERVIEW and discussion about NXT's technology!!
I have no idea, but it is in the best interests of the Chinese participants, such as the government who will receive 45% of the revenue, that it is an amount that makes everyone happy to be a part of the JV.
I feel it is probably not in the best interests of Natcore to share that information at this time since they will be entering JV negotiations with other companies in the world.
I send a copy of the message I had posted on this board regarding my conversation with Tom Scarpa to him. I talked to him again on the phone and he said I did not say anything that was factually incorrect. He did say to me in this conversation that two German companies were also very interested in NXt's technology and that the finalizing of the Chinese venture agreement was becoming even nearer to completion.
I should add something else to what I posted Tom Scarpa told me that the Chinese government will be a partner in the JV along with the other participants. Once the agreement is finalized things will be moving fast to get into production solar panels using Natcore's technology.
As I stated previously in a post. I had attended Natcore's AGM in Vancouver B.C. Tuesday June 1st. I had hoped by chance one of the senior executives would be there so that I could ask some questions about what is going on with the company. The company's Corp. Sec. was there and she suggested I call Tom Scarpa who is the Senior Vice President of the company who I have spoken too on numerous occasions.
So that is what I did today. I had a very good conversation with Tom Scarpa. The important thing investors have to remember about Natcore is that it is a technology not a manufacturing company. It will be getting it's revenues from companies that utilize it's technology.
That is what I really like about Natcore it will not incur the costs of building manufacturing facilities, cost of equipment, manufacturing and selling the solar products, but will receive a percentage of those sales. That is where the biggest returns are.
Not only in the case of the solar industry Natcore will becoming out with other technologies that will be beneficial in other industries, thereby increasing it's future revenues even more.
Tom Scarpa told me Chuck Provini CEO of Natcore just got back from Taiwan on Friday after having had important discussions with two large companies in that country, who were very impressed with Natcore's solar technology. Chuck Provini is very confident that a deal will be made in Taiwan.
Tom also told me they have been in discussions with a Swiss company who were also impressed with the company's technology and felt something could be done in Europe.
Tom also told me things were progressing well in China on finalizing the joint venture agreement and he expressed a fair amount of confidence it would be completed within a month.
One of the most important virtues that is necessary in order for investors to make really big money in the stock market is patience. Natcore Technology has the potential to be extremely rewarding for those who stick with it for the long term as I most definitely plan to do.
I went to the Natcore Annual meeting there was only one other shareholder there, a retired stockbroker. The Corp. Sec. ran the meeting, everything was past by the shareholders using the mail or by other means. Since no Exec. members of Natcore other then the Corp. Sec. were in attendance, there was no one to talk too about the company. The meeting was over in about 15 minutes and adjourned.
I wish I something to report unfortunately I do not. This type of attendance for a AGM is not that unusual for a company.
I will be able to go to NXT's annual meeting after all, and try to get as a much information as I can to report back to you guys on this forum.
I had planned to go but something came up. Hopefully things will work out so I can still make it.
THANK YOU!!
Montanore could you post the list of PM's again, I thought it would stay on the board so I didn't copy it, thanks.
I talked to Tom Scarpa Vice President of Natcore on Friday. Among other things we spoke about regarding NXT, he said CEO Chuck Provini was heading to Taiwan and was confident he woud be coming back with a joint venture deal with 2 Taiwanese companies one of which is a big household name company.
I like the prospects for Anavex Life Sciences AVXL. I do know from personal experience stocks like AVXL can have explosive moves to the upside. I was very impressive with what I read about the company. I particularly like the fact that one of their director's Ms Alison Ayers has a stratgic position in Pfizer.
I took a position in AVXL yesterday, I am really happy to see it is up 40 cents today.
SOLAR PRODUCERS HEATING UP
NEW YORK -- China Development Bank recently announced it will loan two of China's major solar producers -- Trina Solar and Suntech Power -- the sum of $12 billion over the next five years.
SOLAR PRODUCERS HEATING UP
NEW YORK -- China Development Bank recently announced it will loan two of China's major solar producers -- Trina Solar and Suntech Power -- the sum of $12 billion over the next five years.
I am just blown away be the announcement what a great acquisition by Natcore, and on very good terms.
It really proves that Natcore has great management, and can acquire good companies on very favourable terms. It makes me feel very confident that the finalized agreement with the Chinese will be the best possible one that could be achieved by the company.
Natcore Executes Agreement to Acquire Vanguard Solar.
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, May 12, 2010 (Marketwire) -- Natcore Technology Inc. (TSX VENTURE:NXT)(PINK SHEETS:NTCXF) -
Natcore Technology Inc. is pleased to announce that, further to its news release dated March 31, 2010, it has executed a formal share purchase agreement with all of the security holders of Vanguard Solar Inc. Closing of the acquisition of Vanguard Solar Inc. is expected to occur shortly, subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
Vanguard has been focused on the development of a flexible, thin-film photovoltaic material capable of silicon solar cell-like efficiency performance potentially at one-tenth the manufacturing cost and one-twentieth the capital investment.
Vanguard has employed a proprietary chemical bath process similar to Natcore's liquid phase deposition (LPD) technology, although Vanguard has grown II-VI compound semiconductor thin films on carbon nanotubes at room temperature and ambient pressure, while Natcore has thus far concentrated on growing silicon dioxide films on silicon substrates.
The first-generation products from Vanguard's method could produce 15%-16% efficiencies at module
costs of 60 cents to 70 cents per watt. It is anticipated that second-generation technology could achieve 20% efficiencies at even lower costs per watt. The investment for production facilities is projected as low as $10 million to $15 million per 100-megawatt to 150-megawatt production capability, as compared with current costs of as much as $250 million for standard solar-cell production facilities. Vanguard's production equipment would be designed for insertion into existing roll-to-roll film-coating lines of the sort that have been displaced by the emergence of digital photography. All production materials are widely available and dramatically cheaper than silicon and other thin-film systems. If successfully developed, the process would enable a very cost-efficient production capability in large-scale facilities
Vanguard has achieved proof-of-concept in small area devices and is ready to move to a validation stage, during which the company will demonstrate larger-area working devices at the targeted efficiencies expressed above. Vanguard has two pending patents covering its solar cell development, as well as a broad range of photodetectors and optical sensors. Among the applications for the latter are manufacturing process monitoring and controls, homeland security surveillance and biomedical sensors for diagnostics and testing.
As consideration for the purchase of Vanguard, Natcore has agreed to issue Vanguard shareholders a total of 373,606 common shares, subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
In conjunction with the acquisition of Vanguard, Natcore entered into an agreement with a firm performing services for Vanguard to pay legal fees incurred by Vanguard through the issuance of 120,075 common shares of Natcore and an agreement with a firm providing services to Natcore in relation to the Vanguard acquisition through the issuance of 20,000 common shares, all of which is subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
http://app.quotemedia.com/quotetools/newsStoryPopup.go?storyId=30800862&topic=NTCXF&symbology=null&cp=null&webmasterId=100941
Solar Power Interview on BNN
Here is the link to an 8 min interview with an analyst about the solar industry on Business News Network. It doesn't mention Natcore ( yet ) but it does talk about the industry in general and gives some information about the supply / demand issues in the industry. It also mentions a few of the larger companies. I look forward to the day when we are talked about in this kind of interview. Hopefully it won't be too far in the future.
http://watch.bnn.ca/market-morning/may-2010/market-morning-may-11-2010/#clip300592
Natcore Tech Issued US Patent for (LPD) Technology
PatentCovers Natcore's Foundational Technology for Growing Thin FilmsNecessary in Solar Cells, Semiconductors, Fiber Optics and OtherApplications
RED BANK, N.J., May 10/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The U.S. Patent Office has awarded a patent to Natcore Technology Inc. (TSX-V: NXT; Pink Sheets: NTCXF.PK) for its proprietary Liquid Phase Deposition (LPD) process for growing films on silicon.
Natcore'sLPD process makes it possible to grow a wide range of inorganic materials such as silicon dioxide-based films using a room-temperature,environmentally friendly chemical bath -- thereby eliminating the need for harsh and expensive chemical vapor deposition (CVD) methods currently used in industry.
These silicon dioxide films are essential elements of semiconductors,fiber-optic components and solar cells, among other important uses.Natcore's LPD process is expected to significantly lower manufacturing and environmental costs in many of these applications. The LPD process will also allow for the development of advanced materials and devices that would otherwise be destroyed during the high-temperature CVDprocess currently being used by industry.
The basic patent has been assigned the number 7,718,550 and will be issued on May 18.This U.S. Patent award provides Natcore with intellectual property protection for its LPD invention in the world's largest and most important market. Natcore's LPD process had already been granted patent protection in Russia, and is currently in application in other major jurisdictions throughout the world.
"This patent for our signature LPD process strengthens Natcore's position ASA leader in green technologies that are changing the way the world produces energy," said Chuck Provini, Natcore's president and CEO. "It is this foundational discovery that allows us to grow revolutionary anti-reflective (AR) films for solar cells, and is the driving force behind our goal of creating super-efficient tandem solar cells."
Brien Lundin,Natcore's chairman, notes that, "This technology holds tremendous promise not only for solar energy production, but also opens up new frontiers in semiconductors, optoelectronics, ophthalmology,environmental remediation and countless other exciting areas. It has always been our plan to explore and exploit these potential applications in due course."
As a result of its acquisition of NewCyte Technology in December 2009,Natcore holds three other U.S. Patents -- one relating to film growth on fullerenes, a second concerning the creation of interfaces between nanoparticles and biological molecules or systems, and a third that has to do with the uses of silica-coated carbon nanotubes. A major area where this third patent can be used is for advanced low cost, high performance fuel cells. Natcore is continuing to work on patent applications for new technologies and applications being discovered and developed through its research programs at Rice University and Ohio State University.
Other Corporate Updates
The Company is progressing toward a definitive joint venture agreement to create and fund Natcore China. Drafts of a definitive agreement have circulated between Natcore and the Zhuzhou Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, with no instances of disagreement as to any of the terms. The High-Tech Zone is currently finalizing its list of prospective local partners for Natcore's review and approval.
Natcore's research programs at Ohio State University and Rice University continue to advance its LPD technology and tandem solar cell research. Natcore expects to deliver updates on the progress of these programs in the near future.
I live near Vancouver so I can go to the meeting. Thanks for posting it.
Here is the link to the message posted on the board and the link to the board.
http://www.stockhouse.com/Bullboards/MessageDetail.aspx?p=0&m=28219156&l=0&r=0&s=NXT&t=LIST
http://www.stockhouse.com/Bullboards/SymbolList.aspx?s=NXT&t=LIST
Shareholders of Natcore have got to like this comment posted on another discussion board.
"If things were to work out for Natcore's LPD we could be look'in square in the eyes of the stock of the decade.. that's how dramatic it could affect the solar panel industry."
Natcore has done extremely well this week considering the stock market pull back, even closing up 17 cents today in Canada.
Even though I have a significant position in Natcore, I will be watching it closely to possibly add to it on Monday or Tuesday of this coming week.
I am bullish on the stock market and I feel there is a lot of money on the sidelines waiting to come into the market and is doing so right now on the pull back we are experiencing now. And I am one of them.
I had a very good phone conversation with Tom Scarpa Exec. Vice Pres. of Natcore yesterday. He stated to me that we will be hearing some good news from the company in the next few days. Details of which he could not tell me, other then to talk in general terms.
I can say this, they are very busy at Natcore, and I am looking forward to some good and exciting and rewarding times ahead as an investor in the company. This company I feel is a long term hold, and is going a lot higher in price then what it is presently trading at.
Frankily speaking my stock portfolio has been taking a real beating this week. The action in the stock market was bound to affect Natcore, especially enlight of it's recent run up.
Should investors be buying Natcore shares or shares of any other company now. All I can say is I like buying when everyone else is selling. It has worked in the past for me and I don't expect it to be any different now.
The future is bright for solar companies, especially for Natcore, it is going to be fascinating to watch solar technology evolve to enable it to be a bigger part of energy sources for the world . Also do not forget Natcore is a company that will be bringing out other products affecting other high tech areas.