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Thanks mate..Nice looking chart..
Could I get a chart on HON. Thanks mate
I am new to this stock so I am not sure who Jim is. I do know that Mr. Robert Loud is the new CEO. How does Jim fit into the picture.
Not many Pinkies take the time and money to do these interviews. This is positive, transparent and good for the shareholders. We have a winner here. IMO
Love your bike..SWEET
Thanks mate
SA I would like to thank you again for making these videos available. If you are not a chart guru I recommend you check them out.
Is the interview on wallst.net ??
I wasn't beating up on SA. Just the chart ..Had a nice PM with SA about it.
RB reeled all of us in with his bogus PR's and promises for utopia..lol He has made a lot of mistakes and frankly I don't see things changing..
The chart stinks.
SA is this on your radar or just providing a chart..TIA
You can't ask Berman to step down, who will take his place? His brother? You act like this is IBM. This is nothing more than RB
and his motley fools(his family). I bet there are no more than ten people in the orginization. I have or had a lot of hope he
would do the right thing. He has done nothing but fall on his own sword. My 5k investment is now worth 1k..
Thanks Ricky
Tech could I get a chart on PDVP..thanks mate
When you issue a PR stating you have acquired a company, that means you have bought it. There is no other way to interpret that information. He released that info to effect PPS when in fact it was not the case. That is pure and simple fraud. Now if he owns it personally he should be hung from the highest tree. In light of the latest revelation I feel some investigation should be done. He frickin lied to us for three months about AUMN..
Nice sig mate...
Righty....I believe you have found the Holy Grail of sigs. A hot babe on a really hot Busa..Man I want one....
We are up to 10 board marks. Maybe there is hope for the alpha male..We are a rare breed............
I feel like beating a dead horse, but what's the deal with AUMN..The PR's..OMG..If RSDS does not own AUMN then he released a bogus PR to benefit RSDS..Sounds like fraud to me..Come on Ricky, whats the deal...???????
Come on Dak lets hear it....
Nice lick..fired it up on the Ipod. What the HELL is Berman up to..focker had lost his mind...
Not you bro, you would go crazy in your cage. In fact I would bust you out. Not everyone can handle iron and lace. So what do you want some Free Bird or Sweet Home Alabama...?
Hey mate welcome to the board.
Nice quote..I try to live by that...Welcome to the board.
Nice post Loof..Who knows what happened today. Could be fed up investors or more dilution. Heck with the O/S the way it
is who knows. Somebody was buying those shares. If I could print shares and somebody buy them, what a gig. The AUMN deal
just don't add up.Personally I would like to see what the SEC has to say about his PR's regarding AUMN. Any opinions?
BTW, Loof, I like reading your posts, but dang dude, your sig is hard to look at...
My kinda poker game...lol bro..
I had to put her to bed for now. I'm mourning the loss of a good friend, patriot and true American...God Bless the USA
I liked the paragraph as well. Though I hate to see the pps retreat like it did, I wish to thank all the sellers for this buying opportunity. This company will continue to grow and so will the pps.
No liberal lesbians on my bikes. What happened to PDVP today?
Ditto on your sig.......
Good luck Joey..I wish I was going with you..felix navidad my friend..
BB
It also causes uncontrolled twists of the throttle and time spent at gentlemans clubs to forget symtoms from RSDS.
So where are we going tomorrow? Are the profit takers and weak investors done? It was a nice day for me to reload. Any peeps on the R/M? If you want to sell I'm buying..
Plans move forward for new nuclear plants
As demand grows, utilities say designs are safer; financing remains an issue
The Associated Press
Updated: 1:57 p.m. CT Sept 19, 2007
NEW YORK - The current turmoil in credit markets is unlikely to derail plans by power companies to begin ordering the first new nuclear plants since cost overruns and public opposition virtually killed the industry three decades ago.
Nearly 30 years after the disastrous partial meltdown at Three Mile Island, Pa., several companies are planning to seek regulatory approval to build new plants, including Entergy Corp., Dominion Resources Inc., Exelon Corp. and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Constellation Energy Group has already filed a partial application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which expects up to seven requests this year and 28 by 2009. The first plants could be online by 2014 or 2015.
TVA’s plans to expand its nuclear capacity have already begun, with the recent restart of a reactor at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Athens, Ala.
The nation’s largest public utility is also a partner in a consortium to resume construction at the unfinished Bellefonte plant site in Hollywood, Ala. It is also looking to finish a second reactor at the Watts Bar nuclear plant in Spring City, Tenn.
“I think investors are relatively positive on companies that are ... planning the next round of nuclear plants,” said Barry Abramson, analyst and portfolio manager at GAMCO Investors Inc., in Rye, N.Y. “The numbers seem to work.”
Utilities see in nuclear plants an opportunity to affordably meet demand for electricity, which the Energy Information Administration is forecasting will grow by 42 percent by 2030. High natural gas prices and the prospect of taxes or constraints on greenhouse gases are making gas- or coal-fired plants less attractive. New modular designs and a streamlined regulatory process further strengthen the argument for nuclear power.
“At the end of the day, we believe ... nuclear will be cost-competitive,” said Randy Hutchinson, senior vice president of nuclear business development at New Orleans-based Entergy.
But this nuclear renaissance faces challenges. No company has lined up financing, and their ability to borrow affordably will depend on federal loan guarantees and state rules about when utilities can hike rates to pay for construction. Construction costs are rising due to growing global demand for raw materials. And activism, an accident or terrorist attack could stoke public opposition.
Still, reactor vendors, such as General Electric Co., Toshiba Corp.-owned Westinghouse Electric Co. and France’s Areva Group, in a new joint venture with Constellation, are positioning themselves to profit. GE, in joint venture with Japan’s Hitachi Ltd., sees its annual reactor business growing from $1.1 billion to $8 billion over the next decade.
(MSNBC.com is a joint venture between GE's NBC Universal and Microsoft.)
To strengthen its hand, the industry is pushing legislation to expand federal loan guarantees, available for 80 percent of plant costs. Utilities are also lobbying state lawmakers to let them raise rates to recover construction costs. Florida and Louisiana, for example, have passed such measures.
State officials are reluctant. “I just don’t want to ... give them a blank check and say, build a plant and we can talk about the cost later,” said Nielsen Cochran, chairman of the Mississippi Public Service Commission.
Some states are allowing such rules subject to “prudence reviews,” said Diane Munns, executive director of the Edison Electric Institute’s retail energy services group.
The Energy Department is also helping, paying half the cost of three early applications, including $5.5 million of the $11 million Entergy has spent so far preparing an application for a new reactor in Port Gibson, Miss., site of its existing Grand Gulf plant. GE has received $46 million in incentives since 2004, and expects a total of $250 million by 2010.
Experts doubt the current credit market dislocations will affect nuclear plant financing. Lenders will view reactors as safe and desirable investments because of the federal guarantees and state cost recovery rules, and because they’ll be built by established utilities with long track records of operating power plants.
Most utilities will invest some of their own equity in the projects, and many will finance the plants on their balance sheets — paying for them out of cash flows and borrowings not tied directly to any one project.
“I would argue that you’re investing in an entire company,” said Standard & Poor’s analyst Dimitri Nikas. “The issue will not be tied to a specific asset.”
Nuclear plants still use low-grade nuclear reactions to generate heat and create steam or pressurized water to spin turbines. But instead of the one-of-a-kind designs the new plants will use interchangeable modular designs. Gravity, instead of pumps, will move water in an emergency and new alloys and digital controls will also improve operations and safety. The 1979 accident at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island plant began when cooling system pumps and valves failed.
The NRC has already approved two Westinghouse designs. One GE-Hitachi design has been approved, another is pending. Areva plans to submit a design for approval soon.
Nuclear plants cost more than conventional plants, but are cheaper to operate. A new 1,000-megawatt reactor would cost $2.1 billion in 2006 dollars, compared to $1.3 billion and $600 million, respectively, for comparable coal and natural-gas plants, according to EIA estimates.
But the average cost of nuclear-produced electricity was 1.72 cents per kilowatt hour in 2005, versus 2.21 cents for coal-fired plants and 7.51 cents for natural gas plants, says the Nuclear Energy Institute, a trade group.
Weighing in nuclear power’s favor is utilities’ belief that the government will constrain or tax greenhouse gases, which would significantly increase operating costs at conventional plants. Nuclear plants emit greenhouse gasses, but far less than conventional plants.
Also pushing utilities toward nuclear power are new regulations that let companies apply for a single construction and operating license. In the past, the licenses were separate.
“You might spend a few billion dollars, and then you’re at risk of not getting an operating license,” said NRC Chairman Dale Klein.
Long Island’s Shoreham Nuclear Power Station, for instance, was completed in 1984 for $6 billion but never opened due to community opposition.
Licensing isn’t cheap, either. Hutchinson estimated the process can cost $50 million to $100 million.
“Bottom line, in developing a nuclear project, you could be spending several hundred million dollars just to keep the option open,” Hutchinson said.
Critics say the industry is overstating the new plants’ advantages, and ignoring the unresolved issue of spent nuclear fuel.
“There clearly are some benefits to relying on gravity over electric motors and pumps,” said Paul Gunter, director of the reactor watchdog project at the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, which opposes nuclear power plants. “But there are no guarantees that terrorism or an accident won’t penetrate one of these new designs.”
Indeed, radioactive water leaked into the Sea of Japan from buildings housing reactors built to one of GE’s newer designs after July’s magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Japan’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant.
Community opposition could stop projects. Steel parts could cause another potential bottleneck: Most necessary large forgings can only be made at Japan Steel Works, which can supply only 7 to 8 plants a year, Hutchinson said.
Still, GAMCO’s Abramson says investors are comfortable the industry and NRC have addressed the problems that caused cost overruns last time.
“I think investors know that you can’t find anything with zero risk,” he said.
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Bro, I recomend you try jumping out of an airplane before you go jumping off mountains..Let me know when your ready to go cause I want to too........lol
Thats base jumping taken to a new lvl. I have made 4 hop and pops and three AFF jumps. But that would cause a major pucker.
Holy crap...These guys are off the hook. Where do they put their bowling ball size huevos when they are flying..
yea sky diving..right?
OMG..I just can't imagine..I have pulled the between 100-120..But I think at that speed I'd like to keep them on the ground. Hell, going 150 with both on the groung is a hell of a ride....
The dealer let me sit on one at the last bike show. Due to the sideways mount of the engine, when you rev it up, it wants to torque the bike to one side..Thats why they call it a MONSTER...Congrats mate you'll love it..