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Daily Chart Shows High Accumulation
in bottom section of picture
Price hit .14 cents today, and the
top of the Bollinger Band and bounced off.
Band top will be higher tomorrow.
We have resistance at .15 cents
but once over that it should go to at
least .18 cents and the top of the channel.
When it breaks out from the channel,
we'll see.
hague daily
False Alarm - Sorry!
SolTerra Renewable Energy
BUSINESS TYPE: Renewable energy
OWNER: Anthony Balakier
LOCATION: P.O. Box 695, Portsmouth, NH 03801
TELEPHONE: (603) 812-1204
WEB SITE: www.solterrare.com
BUSINESS DESCRIPTION: SolTerra Renewable Energy designs and installs renewable systems for residential and commercial sites. These systems include photovoltaic (PV), solar thermal, geothermal and wind turbines. SolTerra provides a turnkey solution that works with new construction or renovations. SolTerra offers these services throughout the New England area.
The York Energy and Climate Fair
in York, Maine, lists
Solterra Renewable Energy as an
Exhibitor at the
York Energy & Climate Fair 2010 – May 1, 2010
It's free and sponsored by the
York Energy Efficiency Committee
www.yorkgoesgreen.com
Check down the left panel under
"other exhibitors" for Solterra.
From Wikipedia:
York is a town in York County, Maine, United States at the southwest corner of the state. The population in the 2000 census was 12,854. Situated beside the Atlantic Ocean on the Gulf of Maine, York is a well-known summer resort. It is home to three 18-hole golf clubs, three sandy beaches, and Mount Agamenticus. It includes the villages of York Village, York Harbor, York Beach and Cape Neddick.
We're going after the big Maine Solar business!
Zummer, maybe there won't be announcements until they
get the stock listed again in Canada. Buying time
until you can invest in H. Everything is unfolding
as it should. Child of the universe stuff.
Be grateful.
nah.
I agree that any announcements would be this week,, but
it may already be too late because volume is light already
in the stock market. We have to wait it out. Not even a crumb.
I don't think Phoenix Alliance is working
with us anymore, they are not much mentioned
in the SEC docs recently. Replaced by the
Florida company. They never answered my
calls either.
Did anybody talk to Lauren?
Solterra Renewable Technologies
website is www.solterrasolarcells.com
I found this website-
www.solterrasolar.com
and this address-
Solterra LLC
225 West Washington Street
Chicago, IL 60606
info@solterrasolar.com
I am using SolterraSolar for my twitter name
but have no connection to the website above.
I think Solterra Development Corp. is a
real estate company, I think. Not Hague related.
I have not seen any connection to Chicago.
I don't know. Just tossing it out there.
It may be nothing.
You go through your life never seeing the
word 'Solterra' and then you start seeing
it everywhere! LOL
Ih8aloss,it's good to know I'm not the only crazy!
For everything they seem to have accomplished,
and I am not going to restate everything,
there has not been a PR from the company since
July-August. They did 3 of them a few weeks apart.
We hooked up with U of A
We hooked up with Access2Flow
We're gonna hook up with the Saudis.
and no PR since then. They haven't even updated
their website either.
But they spelled out the business objectives in
the 10K and 10Q but again no accomplishments or
confirmation of anything new, except that Squires
was quoted about the Saudi Plant. Only that one
thing. With the Jabbour connection to KAUST, a
plant there makes total sense, and a plant means
sales to the Saudis and the MidEast.
They are damn lucky you and I and D5 are totally
lost at stock PR for our lame attempts at getting others
interested in this piece of stuff. We almost let
the secret get out. I'm kidding, the stock went up
from .08 in August to .13 now, so maybe we did a little.
We got investors one at a time.
We should have called ourselves some sort of Penny Pickers
and said HGUE was our pick and we coulda made money from
the customers we got, while promoting HGUE at the same time.
Thats the way to do it! We could say its our momentum play.
What momentum, they ask? Glacial momentum, we answer, the kind that makes mountains~! Of course, glaciers took thousands of
years to do their job.
Shoot, the stock has been stuck on .13 cents for 7 days now.
We need more Ask Slappers according to PX.
I wish he had told us sooner!LOL.
You mention it looks like a dead horse on its last legs to investors. That's right. No PR = Dead Horse
Yes, I agree they have said nothing to not draw attention to themselves while they get everything done.
I would not have thought
of starting a company whose R&D department was 3 to 5
universities all doing different pieces of the puzzle.
Whats amazing is how no one has broke the silence on their side.
They are good at keeping secrets, yet they spill the beans in the papers they submit to Journals. we did this and we did that. and this is the result we got. Maybe the results I want will come in the form of a paper submitted to a journal. Those papers are all subject to review before publishing, examining the claims made by the scientists. It is a scientific statement rather than a PR release.
What .13 cents stock price also says to me is that no shareholder wants to sell their shares! Very strong statement of support.
How high will this go when the new boys come around
and say will you sell for 20 or 40 or 80? and noone
sells? We get hardly any traffic. Nobody worried about their
investment. Greenman and Snow stopped posting. Just
sitting back, lurking, there's nothing to say.
I think they announce Bob Glass before xmas, maybe this
week. Maybe some other new hires too?
What will really move this stock is lab test results.
-Efficiency and Conversion of Quantum Dots in the lab.
-How many kg a day the micro reactors are producing of
quantum dots.
-How much current goes through a prototype solar panel.
At least they have a integrated "business development"
company handling PR, strategy, web, etc getting all that
lined up going into the future. They have a very good
track record, or at least are experienced, at guiding
the intro of small startups to the marketplace. We have
an advantage being a listed company already.
I believe we are getting close. If they are looking for
investors they have to come out with results as reasons
for those institutional investors to put their money on
us.
HGUE chart posted at Charts are Cool board
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=44505204
Nice of them to do it.
Scoobey, Hague is a shell that Solterra Renewable Technologies bought. It was a mining stock, is now a Quantum Dot and Solar Panel company. Name change coming Jan 19 to Quantum Materials Corp. Then Stock split! check out the Solterra board that comes up when you HGUE on subject here.
Thanks for the chart Scoobey,
You were always my favorite!
pura vida!
DMcD5, I could not find the link
for KAUST flood damage, can you give it?
I did see that the region suffered damage
and the reason one person gave is that
a road was cut through a mountain and served
as a gully for the rains to come into the valley.
They evidently don't have good drainage systems
for roads or cities. I guess it rains so
infrequently there, they don't take it seriously.
Either that or administrators skimming project
money and not finishing the projects.
They will now. Heads will roll.
Did Shaheen suffer damage too?
Pura Vida
Pony, Solterra has the potential to
be the "greenest" company in the world
Grid parity means solar energy cost is same as
the local utility's carbon fuel cost with these
extra benefits-
1. no carbon fuels polluting - clean energy,
possibility of reversing the increase of carbon
dioxide, carbon monoxide and ozone polluting
the atmosphere.
2. solar panels absorb heat of sun and
turn it into electrical energy, contributing
to cooling, which slows global warming (slightly).
3. mass production means lower cost, making solar
affordable for everyone, lowing electrical cost
(no longer a slave of the utility companies),
and putting money back into peoples pockets.
This company has the potential to be the
MacDonald's of Green Energy.
I am not going to criticize anyone
for what they choose to do, either,
just telling you my thinking. I know
you are as enthusiastic as I am.
Nowadays its tough to keep a secret,
sometimes it comes out, for example,
Tiger Woods. I am just thinking
that they kept the secret for so long
I hope I didn't spoil whatever they
are trying to do.
At this point I don't know if it would
make a difference, just my personal
choice.
GLTA
DMcD5, You are totally right.
When we looked at this info about Jabbour,
we see that we have grants, instead of money,
which is probably paid directly to the university
because that is where the research is done.
We see that they have been working on every
phase of the business separately, but looking
squarely at the goal. You can do that when you
have 4 employees and 3-4 grad students under them,
at Rice, U of A, ASU, another university in
Finland working on applications for the printing
exclusive license and starting a lab at KAUST
which you can set up as you like, literally,
with a large budget. What did they need money for?
God knows the number of research projects that
they have going. Since I started looking at Hague
late last year the reference to Jabbour's co-authored
papers has risen from 300 to 400 papers on the new
bio info. This is a business that has 22 manufacturers
of solar panels and almost every scientific university
is doing work on nanotechnology like quantum dots, tubes,
dyes, coatings, etc. I am sure they keep up on all the
research. After all, that is how Squires got the license
for the CdSe QD and hired Jabbour, and got the U of A
license- all exclusive licenses! He was probably first to
Access2flow for mass production, and got the license for
any advancements on the process for mass producing
quantum dots.
Their objective right now is proof of process and
financing for roll out. They may have both already,
I don't know, but they don't want announcements until
they have something to show. That's what I think.
They were able to do all this so far without peering
eyes on them, which was an advantage. I really got
excited when I found the connection between Jabbour
and KAUST, but now I realize they were probably
doing just fine without my help! LOL
Jabbour and Kaust was public info all along.
We just didn't see it.
The President of Kaust, Choon Fong Shih,
published the Engineering Innovation PDF on
March 31 2009.
Jabbour spoke at Kaust Oct. 15 2009
http://www.kaust.edu.sa/media/symposiums/sapsymposium.html
Jabbour spoke at Stanford April 9th as Kaust Director
of Solar and Alternative Energy.
http://camp.stanford.edu/meeting/program.php
It is nowhere on Hague/Solterra website or SEC docs.
There is no reason to keep from announcing it unless
it would lead to other things that you want secret.
Squires mentioned a Saudi factory in Jeddah once, and
those comments were copied into another story, but
otherwise no PR or info in SEC docs, other to say
that they will go after Middle East business.
So I'm thinking I have semi-ruined the big surprise.
I don't think we should tell anyone.
Except for 3 Canadians and Pony Express, no one
seems to care anyway, I mean, it's not like we
haven't tried. I know Ih8aloss has hit every financial
website there is trying to tell them about Hague/Solterra,
and each of us has done some "outreach". With not much
results. I kid "we get investors one at a time".
Obviously, this is a winner. The credibility factor
of having your top scientist in a top position in the
top university of the 21st century, and the audacity
for a startup to build one of its first factories in
Saudi Arabia, is announcing to the world that you have
arrived, and in a Pink Cadillac.
They are holding the info
for some big announcement when it all comes together.
If they make the announcement too soon, it puts more
pressure on them and gets the competition heated up.
If they stage it the way they want to, it has maximum
effect.
So, maybe we should keep our mouth shut and not tell
anyone. No one reads this board anyway. We've never
hit the top 15 boards. When Hague makes the big
announcement, stock goes up. Fait accompli.
Personally, now that I know where this is going,
that's my plan. You guys deserved to know because
we're all in this together, but I don't have to
evangelize anymore. I am gonna take it easy and
have me a brewski.
Hi Clay,
Would you do a chart on HGUE
It's in a mildly upsloping channel
on the weekly and monthly for 6 months,
a cross between a box and a flag,
and for the last week or two is
in a triangle as volume lightened up.
I would say it might be poised for a
drop except we found out that the
company has been holding onto all the
good news while they get ready for
sales and contract announcements.
So I am wondering if the technical
can tell you which way its gonna go.
I think up, based on my DD,
but if its a uptrending channel and
triangle, that would say down, right?
Thanks,
Puravida19
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Third link in #476 doesn't work
Here's the link - downloads a pdf entitled-
Engineering Innovation and Impact:
Bold, Collaborative Partnerships
in Science and Technology
by Choon Fong Shih
President, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
It is a 43 page pdf on the whole science program
Page 38 has Prof. Jabbour as Center Director for Solar and Alternative Energy -
http://www.kfupm.edu.sa/sef2009/SEF 2009Pdf/Choong Foon shih.pdf
I believe he speaks arabic, but am not sure.
Thanks D5 - We are in Saudi Arabia!
Ghassan Jabbour KAUST Links!!!! WoW WoW WoW!
I googled "ghassan jabbour" kaust
and found multiple links between them.
http://www.kaust.edu.sa/about/scommittee/dean.html
On KAUST Dean Search Committee
http://www.kaust.edu.sa/media/symposiums/sapsymposium.html
As a speaker at a Technical Symposium at KAUST in October.
Professor Ghassan E. Jabbour, Arizona State University
“Solar and Alternative Energy Science and Engineering Research Center”
http://www.kfupm.edu.sa/sef2009/SEF2009Pdf/Choong Foon shih.pdf
Link to 40+ page KAUST Programs descriptions
P. 39 has Ghassan Jabbour as Center Director for Solar and Alternative Energy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think it is in addition to his other jobs.
This is our connection to KAUST
This is not confirmation, but a big hint that
we may really be setting up a solar cell production
facility in Jeddah, 50 miles south of KAUST
Squires mentions we are building a factory in some
articles and Jabbour is in charge of KAUST solar
programs. LOL This is Great!
The Nov. 5th Benchmarks in Exhibit B (see IBox)
of the agreement with Rice University says:
Licensee shall demonstrate a working model of a thin film quantum dot solar cell product using Rice Intellectual Property by April 30, 2010. This working model shall achieve 6% efficiency at a manufactured cell cost of <$1.50/Watt, and have a consumer warranty regarding product lifetime performance comparable to existing photovoltaics.
Question for the group:
Does anyone have any insight as to whether we have achieved "6% efficiency" at this time, and anything related to this subject?
Business Objectives - stated in the 10K
I was looking at the 10K and I think I found a typo.
1000 gm = 1 kilogram
In the bold type below it says Solterra wants to ramp up from
1 kg to 1000 gms a day production of Quantum Dots.
I believe that should be ... ramp up to 100 Kg or 1000 Kg per day production, and I base it on Squires remarks in the PV Magazine article quoted in post #470. Any comments or opinions on what I think is a typo?
------------------------------------
Objectives:
The Current Objectives of Solterra are as follows:
· Become the first bulk manufacture of high quality tetrapod quantum dots and the first solar cell manufacturer to be able to offer a solar electricity solution that competes on a non-subsidized basis with the price of retail electricity in key markets in North America, Europe the Middle East and Asia.
· Build a robust intellectual property portfolio in third generation photovoltaics. Success criteria include completion of preparation and filing of various patent applications in the area of Quantum Dot Solar Cell technology, by January 2010, defining and initiating the strategy to secure a reliable source of key materials by February 2010, and filing or acquiring additional process related patent applications in solar or printed electronics in general by July 2010, which intellectual property would be owned or controlled by Solterra.
· Initiate scaled manufacturing of tetrapod quantum dots, based in part on technology licensed from William H. Marsh Rice University, and building on continued research. Planning includes the implementation of one or more Solterra owned mini-batch lines for quantum dot conjugation and quality control studies, as well as a pilot line based on outcomes of collaboration with Access2Flow, an advanced flow chemistry consortium based in the Netherlands. The design of the pilot line is intended such that the initial target output of the line, at approximately one kilogram per day, can be further scaled at least by an order of magnitude to 1,000 grams per day in 2010. The output of the tetrapod quantum dots manufacturing will be used for Solterra’s quantum dot solar cells as well as stand-alone sales into the biomedical research fields and to third party developers of quantum dot products such as displays, memory and computer and consumer electronics.
· Continue to develop and characterize the Quantum Dot Solar Cell product; moving towards pilot proof line for solar cells and leading to high throughput print line ultimately capable of yearly solar cell output near gigawatt range. Target cell efficiencies are 6% within one year, 10% within 2 years and greater than 20% within five years. Coupled within cell cost per watt decreasing below $1.00/Watt, we intend to pursue initial product sales in late 2010 with significant increases in 2011.
Solterra plans initial target of 1GW production line
(Reposting #306 so I can make it a sticky note on top)
Quotes taken from Stephen Squires (President and CEO) of Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc.) written article for INTERPV magazine, Oct. 2009 issue, P. 54-56. Comments by Puravida19.
1. Solterra “will scale up Quantum Dot synthesis to achieve 100 kg/day production.”
Solterra plans to mass produce Quantum Dots in conjunction with technology and improved processes from Access2Flow, a European company that has created a way to just that. Solterra has retained the rights to any improvements in the process of producing quantum dots that are discovered in the project. The ability to produce Quantum Dots becomes a matter of scale – the number of machines added to the production line, because the ingredients are all low cost and readily available.
2.“This QD output will become solar cell target for operation at the initial target of 100 meters per minute.”
Amazingly, this is the minimal projected production for a Solterra production line. Mr. Squires states “our qdot cell design is based upon simple roll-to-roll print processing that has been around for many years. Even 20-year-old equipment runs 300 m per min and today’s newer machines easily exceed 600 m per minute. If you had a machine capable of printing money at 600 m per minute would you operate it at 10 m per minute? I think not. It’s not being done because up until qdot solar comes online, it simply cannot be done.
3.“At a nominal work schedule of 5 days per week and 8 hours per day, this will create an expandable output of well over 1Gigawatt (1000 Megawatts) per year in solar cell production.”
What if we run the production line 2 shifts?
What if we run the production line at 600 m per minute?
1 GW x 2 shifts x 6 times speed = 12 GW per year from one production line.
4.“This will enable the largest, but minimally complex solar lines in the industry, with production technology for both the quantum dot production and the solar cell line that are globally scalable and repeatable.”
Hague Corp. will produce and profit from Quantum Dots. They are responsible for ramping up production to initially 100 kg per day. Until now, Squires says, “all the qdot manufacturers combined have only produced less than 100 kg per year.” Hague will dominate the Qdot arena. To paraphrase Mr. Squires, if you can print money with one machine, why wouldn’t you use 600?
Solterra will produce Solar Panels by the roll. They could be shipped elsewhere for finishing into a casing and mounting system closer to the project site of large area grids that is the market Solterra is targeting. Or, the roll could be cut to panels to size and then shipped to the appropriate continent for final assembly. This system is lower cost for Solterra as a startup, especially because the money is in the panels, not the covering. It allows more profit and customization for the independent Assembler and Installers, and therefore, exponentially, more uses for our panels compared to other makes.
Caveat Emptor
Buyer beware
means the company has not reported on time,
subject to removal from the board
Based on my track record
if I say no major announcements before Jan 19,
you can be sure that there will be major
announcements before Jan 19. LOL!
There is so much they could announce right now,
stuff that they have accomplished,
stuff that is happening - what they are doing now
stuff that is going to happen - which is mostly
the realization of the business plan spelled out
in the 10Q.
Seeing the stuff that D5 found about the ASU
grants and research going on - we don't know
how much or what else they are doing, but our
guy is at the top of the organization - two
organizations there.
It is tough just having faith from circumstantial
evidence you piece together, but that is what
faith is, and this is the season for it.
The thing is there is so many bits and pieces we
have found, it makes it easier to believe. I was
thinking today that it's a good thing that the
stock is still around .12 - .13 so I can pick up
more shares. And I keep adding when I can.
I think I found a Truffle!
GLTA as they say and Pura Vida.
I am sure Lauren did not get her job by blabbing.
GLTA!
Great info, D5. I did not know we went that far
back with ASU. It shows they were working on all
cylinders that far back. They realized they needed
it all to come together at the same time so they
needed to do research in all areas.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear!
Did you know:
one ounce gold $1125
one ounce CdSe Tetrapod QD $28000.
Those QD factories will have to have vaults!
I predict (all suppositions unsupported by fact):
Solterra will be an American listed stock
one way or the other.
All fluids research will be done in Arizona and
Houston.
The new shares were created for the purposes listed
in the pre 14C, really!
If we announce money in Dec. its only to pay our
royalties and maybe that we have an "alliance" with
a bank or funder or institutional fund. We just don't
need that much money right now until we are ready to
go to production.
Major stuff will happen after Jan 19.
///
Quantum dots and nanomaterials:
Ingredients for better lighting and more reliable power
dated 3/13/2009
http://nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=7553&ntid=&pg=104
Imagine flexible lighting devices manufactured by using printing techniques. Imagine solar power sources equally as reliable and as portable as any conventional power source.
Such advances are among aims of research at Arizona State University to find ways of more effectively harnessing solar power and producing more energy-efficient, durable and custom-designed light sources. The work is now drawing support from two international corporations.
U.S.-based Solterra Renewable Technologies Inc. and Nitto Denko Corp. of Japan are investing more than $3.7 million through grants to help fund the research led by ASU engineering professor Ghassan Jabbour.
Jabbour's work focuses on the use of nanomaterials and quantum dots in solar cells and solid state lighting. Technical advances in this area will open the way for a new wave of more efficient and portable power and light sources in as many shapes and varieties as designers can imagine, he says.
Jabbour, who teaches in ASU's School of Materials, is doing his research through the Advanced Photovoltaics Center, which he directs. The center is part of the Arizona Institute for Renewable Energy at ASU. Jabbour also is director of optoelectronics research for the Flexible Display Center, part of the univerisity's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering.
Illuminating printing processes
Work funded by the grants will include the study of the materials science, physics and engineering solutions necessary to produce the next generation of solar cells, which will cost less to produce and perform more efficiently, Jabbour says.
The project is an example of the economic benefit a research university can bring to its state. Each year, Arizona universities contribute nearly $1 billion into the Arizona economy from their research, most of which is funded by the U.S. government and entities from outside the state. Research money brought in by universities is restricted money that can be used only for the research activity it supports. It cannot be used to compensate for cuts in other parts of the university's budget.
The quantum dots/solar cells project already has brought a small company to open new operations at the ASU Research Park. Given the increasing interest in solar energy and the means to produce it at lower costs, the company can be expected to grow rapidly, Jabbour says.
One of the major scientific and engineering challenges of Ghassan's project involves how to employ printing techniques to fabricate low-cost alternatives to current solar cells. Research articles on printed organic solar cells written by Jabbour and other members of his team continue to be cited by fellow researchers more than any other articles in the area of printed ultra-thin solar area research. (Ultra-thin means it involves materials less than 100 times the thickness of a typical human hair.)
Printing is a viable method for mass production of solar cells. Some printing techniques, such as silk-screen printing (commonly used to print logos, numbers and pictures on textiles), are already used in some aspects of solar cell manufacturing.
Printing allows for large numbers of solar-cell devices to be manufactured rapidly, thus eventually bringing down costs.
"In our work, we will be investigating various techniques such as inkjet printing, screen printing, and roll-to-roll, which is similar to newspaper printing techniques, to see what works best for solar cell manufacturing," Jabbour says.
The power of photons
The material science and engineering aspect of the projects involves experiments with materials that exhibit unique properties at the nanoscale, specifically materials that use photons to achieve more efficient conversion of energy into electricity. The materials also have a broader absorption spectrum of incident solar light meaning they can make more effective use of solar light for conversion into electricity.
"It's traditional to generate one electron-hole pair for every absorbed photon in most solar cells," Jabbour says, but researchers in his lab are working on generating more multiple electron-hole pairs per photon to achieve increased power-conversion efficiency. This is accomplished by producing a higher number of electrons for each absorbed photon from incident light.
In most bulk semiconducting materials, Jabbour explains, absorption of an incident photon (light quanta) with the right energy can excite an electron enough to move it across an energy band gap thus resulting in an electron-hole pair. But the same photon might generate more than one electron-hole pair if the material is made into much smaller dimensions such as the size of a quantum dot.
Quantum dots are small particles about few nanometers (a billionth of a meter) in size. By adjusting the particles physical dimensions, their optical and electronic properties can be fine-tuned. Through such a process, the resulting characteristics of the materials are different than the characteristics of the same material in bulk size, Jabbour explains.
The challenge is how to extract most of the charges from the dots to transfer in the form of electrical current to the device being powered by the solar cell, he says.
Recent results of 3 percent in power conversion in this area are encouraging. Such an efficiency will continue to climb as better materials and device structures are being developed, which is a part of Jabbour's work supported by the grants.
Energy conservation goals
More efficient solar cells are only one part of the solution to the nation's growing energy needs. Just as important is making efficient use of energy in conventional systems, Jabbour says.
The two technologies he and his team are working on are interrelated, involving both energy generation and energy conservation. Although there is a strong push for alternative energy, including solar energy, Jabbour says much can be accomplished by focusing on research to lower the power consumption of conventional technologies. This work involves the area of solid state lighting.
One of the corporate grants is supporting work directly aimed at understanding the materials and device physics of nanoscale structures for low-power, nanothick solid state lighting applications.
The materials used are hybrid nanomaterials targeting white-light emission from a single building block. The light source made out of these materials also will have a nano-range thickness and can be operated at high brightness (equivalent to a ceiling lamp) using a 9-volt battery source. Just as with solar cells, these light sources will also be printable in the future, Jabbour says.
Flexibility in lighting devices
"The beauty of these two projects is their compatibility with rugged substrates, including flexible ones," he says.
A substrate is a material on which circuits or other small devices are formed or fabricated. Flexible substrates (for example, plastic, thin metal foils, or cloth) allow for more durable lights that also weigh less than conventional lighting devices and can be produced in a variety of shapes.
"Imagine a light that is made on a roll that can be cut into various shapes according to the desire of the user," Jabbour says. Such an advance is still far off, but not impossible. In fact, he points out, printed lights made out of inorganic phosphors that operate at about 120 to 150 volts are already available. The drawback is that currently they can be operated only at such high voltages.
The two technologies promise to provide low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells and solid state lights that can be made on thin flexible substrates, resulting in light-weight durable modules that are easier to place on roof tops (for example, solar-cell arrays) and indoors (lamps and similar lighting devices).///
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Puravida comments- I found this article, and it is not on our IBox - It is from March 2009 and Jabbour got a research grant to fund his work for Hague, basically on substrates and ink, I think.
Pretty good educational explanation of the work, too.
The reason I think they go slow on the money is
because they need the QD before they can do anything.
So they set up one "factory" of tabletop microreactors
in Arizona. It's making a kg a day. They refine the
process and order machines and then they are making
20 kg a day. Then they start to build a Solar Panel
factory with one inkjet roll to roll printer and scale
that up. Thats proof of process for the solar panel
production line. Then they can replicate the whole
process and set up copycat small footprint factories
like Macdonalds builds restaurants.
How much does that first solar panel line all cost?
It doesnt cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
$20 million? Probably. But thats only 1 million shares
to private investors at $20 a share.
That's why Squires says production in Q1 which means
July the earliest. A Saudi Factory comes after that.
But they could announce they will build one when they
have the process proofed. It would not be too early
for that type of announcement, and it lends credibility
that the Saudis committed before proof of process,
just on theoretical or lab results.
So I don't think big announcements about money yet.
They are looking for institutional money that buy and
hold and advise on how to make and keep money.
Hi I,
Still disagree about Dubai. It is too risky, first threat of default is not being immediately rescued by Abu Dhabi because they want to know how deep the debt is. What I have read about Dubai is that it has lost lots of companies and mortgagers abandoning their apartments due to no work. Their tower may never be completed.
Also, I would not know how to trade on the Dubai exchange, or be able to follow a stock in Arabic. Same as lots of people.
I am also excited about possible applications. I was looking at Qdots website and they sell lots of different QD for different purposes at high dollars. Amazing. But clearly we will be going to the big market demands for LEDs namely TV Sets, Monitors and Displays. Imagine the brightness of color, the energy efficiency and the larger sizes. I saw in the Solterra Profile Sheet that we are offering QD at $1000/gram where our competitors are offering at $2000/gram, plus with the higher 90% conversion to their 50%. So our strategy looks to be half the price of the competition.
You said, "IMO, I think they make the big announcements all at once to get a big gap up on the open and some smaller releases to keep interest from fading for several weeks and becoming a fly by night flash in the pan kind of stock. "
I think they only come out with the minimum necessary announcements for this year. They want the announcements to pump the price of the IPO for Solterra next year. Hague will make its money from selling the $100 million shares they just authorized to institutional buyers at some ridiculous high figure and same with the sale of Solterra shares.
The announcements I see for this year are Dr. Bob Glass and that they can meet the payment to Rice. The last weeks of the year are no time to make announcements because the money people are in the Caribbean. (where we will be next year).
I'm on washboard. I vote for the Tetrapod Jug Band. Hey, did you ever notice that tetrapods look just like Jacks?
Hey, D5 You got your wish!
New Investor Relations person on the Profile Sheet
INVESTOR RELATIONS
American Capital Ventures
Lauren Milner (877) 918-0774
lm@amcapventures.com
I did not see this company listed on the 10k or 10q.
Give her a call and see what you can find out D5!
By the way, the old one on the sheet
was Richard Chancis, one of the big investors,
and Oceanus Capital in Florida I talked about.
I had not realized who he was when I talked to
him once. He was the one who said it would all
be good a year from now.
What are your qualifications, D5?
maybe you should learn to play guitar.
Ih8aloss, another question,
Hague needs to make a payment to Rice by Dec. 31.
Do you think they make a little funding announcement
before then, or they make it big?
It's possible that Phoenix Alliance could have funded a
private offering of $10 million, they know enough people.
Chancis has the tie to Oceanus.
Posner has Corporate connections.
Do you think McKinnon, Chancis or Posner is involved?
And that Saudi Factory question - where we at?
Puravida!
DMcD5, I am having fun! This company doesn't tell you
anything about what they are doing, as I said previously
on that post about the Investors Relations person who
earns money for nothing! Trying to figure out where they
are going with Ih8aloss's cryptic statements - like they
are going to England this week What? What's that about?
Well if they are, why. Who's in England? Oceanus Capital,
that's who. A hop across to Holland and a visit to Access2Flow?
Wong's the quantum dot man, can he go? Yes, Schools out!
Well how do I think they are doing? Pretty good!
I am taking educated guesses on what I see.
Been down so long it looks like up to me!
We're all in this together, the few, the proud, the Haguers!
Ih8aloss, good ideas on why they are going to england, very logical and gave me some ideas to talk about. What else do you think? Do you really think they list in England? After last week it won't be Dubai. It's an American company. They would have to set up headquarters wherever they list, I bet. England has higher taxes, it won't be there. It won't be Canada, will it? LOL!
Gotta be the USA. There's clean energy money coming, there's incentives to start factories here. And what do you really think about whether we are starting a factory in Saudi Arabia?
Hi Pony Express,
Was it you that bought that 500 shares today and
saved us from the ignoble event of being shut out?
If so, thanks! Welcome aboard and your assignment
for tomorrow is to buy another 500 shares. Got that?
You are asking what can you do to promote HGUE?
Putting it on another board won't do it.
Nobody at Investorshub has any money!!!!!!!!!!ROLF!
Who do you know who has a lot of money?
That's the guy to hit up, and don't tell him to invest,
borrow money from him so you can invest in Hague.
You'll pay him back with interest, right?
Money for nothing, thats the way to do it.
Correction in the last post-
I want to retract this sentence, because I cannot speak to the quality of the competitor's quantum dot -
"But we could charge much more, because we would be supplying Quantum Dots that test out at least 90% tetrapod CdSe quantum dots instead of the >50% Quantum Yield claimed in the chart of the above competitor. "
It was too late to edit out.
Our quantum dots have a high quality, but I don't know all the technical terms or measurements so best I stay out of that.
Puravida19.
A Kilogram a Day, that's all we ask (for now!)
28 grams equals one ounce.
There are 1000 milligrams (mg) in 1 gram (gm).
There are 1000 grams in a Kilogram (kg)
1 kg equals 2.2 lbs.
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Here’s a link to a seller of CdSe Quantum Dots.
http://www.oceannanotech.com/product.php?cid=40&pid=24
You will see on the first line of their chart,
they charge $99 for 10mg. of CdSe Quantum Dots
At that rate, 1 gram is $9900.
Remember these are nanoparticles, and a tetrapod CdSe Quantum dot is 10nm (a nanometer is equal to one billionth of a meter) takes up space but has more air in its structure, plus you only need a micron or so coating on the surface of what you are making.
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Access2Flow last year developed a flow process capable of 55 gms per hour from one Microreactor. At $99 for 10mg, that’s $544,500 per hour in production value. The scale up to 55 grams is in the White Paper attached to Sticky Post #142 above.
Of course, let’s say Hague charges half that amount, that’s $272,250 for an hour’s production.
But we could charge much more, because we would be supplying Quantum Dots that test out at least 90% tetrapod CdSe quantum dots instead of the >50% Quantum Yield claimed in the chart of the above competitor.
Half the price and about twice the quality. Costs are minimal.
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Based on my reading of the Access2Flow website links just today, I believe that by now they have developed a process capable of at least 600gms per hour, and possibly broke the KG (1000 grams) per hour goal they thought possible in the White Paper. If I am correct, production now becomes a function of the number of microreactors Hague can buy and set to production. It is possible for Hague to supply Solterra with the amount of quantum dots they will need to start a factory for solar panel production.
I am basing my opinion on the fact that Micronit Microfluidics, an Access2Flow partner has the body of a microreactor that can handle 10 times the flow of the White Paper microreactor. The bigger body was announced in March 2009, so by now it is possible they have increased its capabilities to a Kilogram. It follows Moore's Law.
All pure speculation! Do your own DD. Read the white paper and visit the linked partner websites there.
FYI - Just checked Rice University ended classes
and started study days before exams on Saturday 12/5,
so Prof. Wong would be available for a trip to
England for the proof of performance. Just speculating.
Maybe they are flying on to Copenhagen for the
Global Warming two week meeting of world governments.
Just speculating.
I like the idea best that Oceanus Capital in England
is involved, just speculating.
Maybe he's on vacation! LOL
Re: England
IH8aloss, Richard Chancis calls his company Oceanus Capital.
There is an Oceanus Capital in England which has an "Introducing Brokers" program, which would be perfect for an Investor specializing in startup companies, like Chancis.
From the Oceanus Capital website:
Introducing Brokers
A program built for the way Introducing Brokers trade
Oceanus Capital is an reliable partner when it comes to business needs. Working with Oceanus Capital opens the door for business development opportunities that can help grow and accelerate the product range offered by Introducing Brokers, as well as potentially growing their client base and improving trading performance.
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I wonder if this is the "introduction" that Hague paid Chancis "Oceanus Capital" to make. There is another website called OceanusWealth.com that provides services to startups. Someone mentioned the possibility of taking us public and listing Solterra in England stock exchanges.
Pure speculation! looking for input and confirmation.
Thanks, Ih8aloss, there is so many details to speculate
about it is hard to know where to start!
No it did not say they had the funding.
What I did notice is this paragraph on page 12 of the 10Q:
"Common Stock
In November 2009, the Company entered into a Consulting Agreement with Steven Posner and Oceanus Capital LLC pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue an aggregate of 3,000,000 restricted shares in exchange for certain introductions made by them to the Company and various other related services."
Posner agreed to be limited to 9.9 percent of the company, so at this point could not own more than 7.2 million shares, but that will increase as more shares are issued.
Steven Posner has an irrevocable trust established in 1967, it must be worth an enormous amount of money now, 44 years later. He owns at least 5 million Hague shares plus the share of the 3 million shares earned as stated above, plus warrants for a million shares. His father was the infamous Victor Posner.
Oceanus Capital LLC is a Florida investment company owned by Richard Chancis and Scott Hoch. Chancis invests in startup companies and also owns Sound Capital, the company advising Hague on business development. Chancis owns at least just under 3 million shares, I think. Scott Hoch may be a PGA Golfer, but I could not confirm that they are one and the same. Chancis is married to a successful businesswoman, the owner of Joey New York cosmetics company.
Andrew McKinnon, owns over 2 million shares and also Phoenix Alliance was charged with raising $10 million from private investors, too. I do not know how he has done. "Phoenix Alliance Corp. will use its best efforts to raise up to $10.0 million for Solterra through the sale of Common Stock and Warrants (the “Private Offering”) and/or the receipt of grants for Solterra during the Standstill Period."
Chancis and Posner and Mckinnon have connections and sources of capital. However, the main Idea is to do a public offering of Solterra, which will pull up the value of Hague, too.
I think when they need the money they can get the money.
If they have a Saudi deal, there should be an advance there, too.
Again, all speculation, but all the components are there that say they have financing. A fantastic story, product, process, potential clients, and a plan.
they don't need a lot of money right now because they only have 5 employees, yes, just 5 employees, and all the work is being done by 3 universities. That is leverage, pure and simple.
They owe money to Rice U and I don't remember the amount or if U of A gets a payment by year end or not. So that is how much they need. It's not a lot, just a million or two.
By the way, Squires spoke about qualifying for federal money under the next green energy and clean air act which will set goals that Solterra can meet. The key is that we meet the goals
in the area of grid parity, which is cost efficient. The other solar companies, wind and thermal are not as cost efficient as quickly.
Ih8aloss, Sleep is good, and thats what I am going to do now.
Why are they going to England?
Crunch55 I will take you up on your offer when up that way and thanks for the invite.
The letter going out on Dec 21 amounts to a notice of what is stated in the pre 14C and is not a proxy vote. They have a majority of shares to vote and are saving money and time by just approving the motions by majority.