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You Noah you're going to take some flock for a pun as bad as that.
He didn't speak often, but when he did his words hit home:
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
-Calvin Coolidge-
If this armour really works, the applications are almost endless.
That redolent cesspool is still even in existence ? Will wonders never cease ?
The salient datum today is not by how much the Bid moved up, but by whom the move was made.
Chuckle
Doesn't even begin to explain why no major has tried to fly it non-stop since the end of the Cold War. TWENTY YEARS !
Sorry, 'Sparky. Doesn't "fly" if you'll pardon the expression.
"key log" starting to break loose.
What'd you have to do that for ? He was making a great door-stop.
Igor and Barry love 'ya, fanman ! I bet they'd even both give 'ya a big kiss, if they were of such a propensity.
Bingo ! If New York-to-Saint Petersburg non-stop were a profitable route, a major would have already been flying it for years!
No startup airline has inaugurated non-stop service between two international Class 1 cities since PanAm in the 20's.
This Russian Mafia scam will never put a commercial flight in the air.
End of discussion.
I've made several updates to #29868, so look again to see my calculated number of KDS machines 10 million MT would require.
Nice find.
Here's the mind-boggler:
"Security of Supply
Malaysia produces more than 10Million MT of EFB waste every year. As the agricultural residue of palm oil, the world’s 2nd largest source of edible oil, the potential and long-term supply of EFB AgriPellet can be secured. As the leader in biomass processing, QL secures palm EFB for long-term supply."
10 million metric tonnes a year!
And now here's the QL annual expectation:
"QL will embark on the commercialization process of its EFB treatment plant, which has an annual capacity of 40,000 MT, and will start commissioning by end-2010. "
So... if Okinawa needs 3 KDS to process 20,000 MT a year, and extrapolation implies QL will thus need 6 to process 40,000 MT a year, then if the entire 10 million MT of annual EFB were processed by the KDS it would require:
10,000,000 / 40,000 = 250 * 6 = 1500 KDS machines
Just in Malaysia !
Don't forget apoplexy. Lots and lots of apoplexy.
"overseas expansion"
"potential acquisition"
Nothing like being in the right place at the right time with the right product.
There's a saying in show business, "... years of hard work to become an overnight success."
Appropos in this set of circumstances, as well.
Wow! All the ingredients there for a real tear-jerker. Pass the Kleenex.
Willmar MN is about 70 miles from the town I grew up in; I covered lots of stories there while working for a TV station.
Even then - late 60's - it was a hotbed of entrepreneurial endeavour, and it's great to see that spirit hasn't abated; indeed, appears even more alive.
The story mentions corn cobs, which are another kind of biomass waste ideally suited to KDS processing.
Makes a person want to just break down and cry, doesn't it ?
There is hope it might have a future. That is, quite frankly, the most optimistic "spin" that can be put on the situation at this moment.
Perhaps the next moment will change that. Or not. Until some signed contracts specifying production and carrying the implication of to-be-realised revenue are executed, this is still just betting on the come.
Cry us a river, 'Vozzie baby.
A metric ton = about 1.1 short tons, the U.S. measure; and about .9842 long tons, the UK measure.
Useful site:
http://www.metric-conversions.org/
Let's hear what Teddy Roosevelt has to say about trying, shall we?
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. "
Your math is correct if the Okinawa "20,000" tons is metric tons, the same as QL.
And, if QL operates its KDS's on the same time schedule as Okinawa.
Japan uses the metric system, so presumably its prefecture Okinawa does, as well.
"Calm equanimity. Absolute arrogant certainty."
If you want to live 3-1/2 years in the past, be my guest. I'll focus on the here and now. And the future.
My opinion ? They seem to be making progress and I'll keep buying at these prices because they are. Way better odds than The Lottery, and almost as cheap.
Right there in the .PDF:
Alyson Shin
+60-3-2383-2953
alyson.shin@citi.com
Yong Yin Ng, CFA
yong.yin.ng@citi.com
Seek, and ye shall find, as the saying goes.
Just a matter of time before some sharp-eyed Citigroup analyst wanting to make a name for themself spots FASC in the QL equation.
Being neither intellectually dishonest nor intellectually lazy, I doubt they'll reach the conclusion FASC is a scam.
I wonder if it's possible to contact the analyst who did the QL writeup?
This licence isn't about the mining, itself. It's basically a permit to let them operate a "metals trading post". Which sounds prosaic and mundane, but will be a nice little side business, an adjunct if you will, to the mining itself.
News! Commercialisation licence from Bolivia:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/franklin-awarded-commercialization-license-by-bolivian-authorities-2010-08-24?reflink=MW_news_stmp
A long time coming, but this is one of the "milestone moments" awaited for so long. Now, they can start the mercantile part of the business.
Well, today's update has elicited the best volume day since June 4th, for whatever that's worth.
I'm handcuffed, gagged, and hog-tied here in solitary confinement; have to type with my..... ummmmm..... well, use your imagination.
But I'll say a couple hundred thousand KDS machines.
"Cool Hand Shawshank Sarge" ( beyond Redemption, ofcourse, and almost having a "failure to 'municate" )
Finally, an update from Twifford:
http://www.globalplatinumonline.com/Press/press%20release%2008-23-10.htm
Thank you, Mr. Twifford.
And I retract my pessimistic outburst of last week.
Thought it was higher than 55% but if so, ok. Nothing some additional R&D won't be able to overcome, in any event. And, with what's about to come to fruition, there'll be plenty of $ for new R&D, shortly.
It's also interesting to note that along the Minnesota / North Dakota border and extending west in the plains of North Dakota there is considerable sugar beet growing activity, which would make for additional feedstock for the alfalfa processing plants.
More on sugar beets:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Beet
Note this from the paragraph on "Diffusion":
The used cossettes, or pulp, exits the diffuser at about 95% moisture but low sucrose content. Using screw presses, the wet pulp is then pressed down to 75% moisture. This recovers additional sucrose in the liquid pressed out of the pulp, and reduces the energy needed to dry the pulp. The pressed pulp is dried and sold as animal feed, while the liquid pressed out of the pulp is combined with the raw juice, or more often introduced into the diffuser at the appropriate point in the countercurrent process. The final byproduct, Vinasse, is used as fertilizer or growth substrate for yeast cultures.
In other words, the waste has 75% moisture content going into whatever drying process is being used now. Bet the KDS can beat the current drying process for energy efficiency, hand's down. And produce a dryer, more homogenous end product in the process.
And here's the reason for the inquiry from Poland:
http://countrystudies.us/poland/57.htm
Of Poland's 18,727,000 hectares of agricultural land (about 60 percent of the country's total area), 14,413,000 hectares were used for crop cultivation, 265,000 for orchards, and about 4,048,500 for meadows and pastures in 1989. In most areas, soil and climatic conditions favored a mixed type of farming. In 1990 the most important crops were grains, of which the highest yields came from wheat, rye, barley, and oats. Other major crops were potatoes, sugar beets ( they have leftover waste from processing similar to palm bunches that would make excellent biofuel feedstock ) , fodder crops ( read: ALFALFA ), flax, hops, tobacco, and fruits. Cultivation of corn expanded during the 1980s but remained limited. The northern and east-central regions of the country mainly offered poorer sandy soils suitable for rye and potatoes. The richer soils of the central and southern parts of the country, excluding higher elevations, made those regions the centers of wheat, sugar beet, hops, and tobacco production. The more accessible land at higher elevations was used to cultivate oats or was left as meadow and pastureland. In 1989 almost half of Poland's arable land was used for the cultivation of the four major grains, another 13 percent grew potatoes. All regions of Poland raised dairy cows, beef cattle, pigs, and poultry, and cultivated fruit, usually as an integral part of mixed farming.
@rj2: strawberry pie in the face ? I've been hit with worse, but no thanks .
"Shawshank Sarge"
@gwho13: When the revenue streams from those JV royalties really start kicking in, the hassle of FASC trying to operate any pellet plants of its own just won't be worth it.
I can only eat three meals a day; how 'bout you ?
"Shawshank Sarge"
Guess what ? The movie here in prison tonight is "African Queen"
Yes, I've been arraigned, tried, convicted, and sentenced already !
Those SEC and DoJ folks don't fool around when somebody is trying to shamelessly pump a real company with a real product and destined to great success !
But the prison pizza isn't bad.
"Shawshank Sarge "
@rj2: I've spoken to Cal on the phone perhaps a half dozen times since 1999.
I've communicated in writing about the same number of times.
Gotta go! They've slapped on the handcuffs and I'm typing this with my nose. Got at least one bite of the pizza first, though.
No reason to wait for "someday soon"; I'll tell you now:
"Tyler! Your beliefs are way too conservative! "
Those of us who do not fear and do not shrink from the courage of our convictions; who eschew the having or holding of "humble" opinions because "humble" opinions are opinions not worth having or holding; who would not buy FASC in that man's company who fears his fellowship to buy FASC with us today; those of us... will be buying FASC, today.
I think we should engage in the most honourable form of stock manipulation there is by buying as much additional FASC as we can each afford. And we each need to encourage those we know to do the same.
Time for a reminder from Teddy:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. "