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I know you are speaking your vested interest, and mine too i suppose....
But indoor pot is like hothouse commercial tomatoes.
The flavor and character isn't comparable.
But if you buy your wine in a box....go for it.
So perhaps the industry will have to shift back to the old, hippie, organic, N. Ca, labor intensive, grower model..That'd be fine with me.
When i had cancer i smoked an enormous amount of locally grown, organic pot. I was subject to an extremely severe experimental chemo over year and 1/2, smoked till my lungs were always raw and carried a barf bowl everywhere .My immune system had pretty much collapsed.I caught a nasty cold from an orderly.
I had the usual fungus growth in my mouth, but that was it.
Note that Tuscano never isolated evidence of infection directly from his patients.
Indoor growing is a phenomenon necessitated by law enforcement and theft.
With those removed, it's impractical.
RS; not long ago , $5000/# for good bud was pretty standard.
That industry is collapsing fast and soon it will be simply another agricultural commodity. As such, i doubt it will support such elaborate set-ups.
After all, it's a weed and can be grown wherever there is a passable climate and decent soil. There are are a whole lot of poor folks looking for a paying crop and the labor intensive nature of the product isn't a big obstacle
Looks good...but access is terrible , ozone can't possibly be called "organic", and...
If you pump in enough ozone to kill some of the tougher insects it'll fry the plants,
plus the O3 cant reach internal stem rot.
Off the top of my head.
Kinda cool and a very long way from crawling 100s of feet through a tunnel in the poison oak with heavy packs to do it in the dirt.
Sure has hurt N California where they already suffered the collapse of the timber industry and the salmon fisheries.
Thanks RocketStocks:
Interesting, but why no sales?
MELI might do really well if the US gets in a trade war with China and Several other countries.
If the US gets in an adversarial relationship with South America, beginning with Mexico, then the threatened competition with Amazon perhaps won't materialize, leaving MELI an open field and trade flooding in from China, Europe and Japan....Maybe.
RE the ozone for hydroponic bacterial control business...
Using ozone for microbial control is old tech ( no IP protection).I used it in the 60s when running a local salt water aquarium business.
Ozone (O3) is very aggressive stuff, and while it will kill bacteria and fungi nicely, it will also burn off all the little rootlets the plants depend on. Might be great at sterilizing equipment before the plants are brought in.
This penny stocklett looks like bright stoners on parade to me, and it's altogether possible that they can do quite well. It's been an amusing place to park a few bucks; we'll see what happens.
It still looks like a fair long term bet Masters.
Recent papers indicate that the whole genome thing is more complex that previously believed, with significant genetic variability within organs, certainly within tumors and many individuals having a genomic "mosaic"inherited from their parents.
Good luck masters!
Making a leap here; Please correct me if i'm wrong...
If XON ( and partner)'s new synthesis and fermentation of the precursor to opiate production comes to market...And it is quicker and easier than current methods ( poppy bleeding); doesn't this have all kinds of juicy implications?
Does that mean the end of Poppy cultivation in the east and the funding of the Taliban?
Does that mean XON shares in the spoils ( profits) of the huge opiate industry ( and culpability)?
Does it become a major security liability?
And so on.
While their initiative to encourage prudent use of antibiotics is admirable and public spirited....I cant help but think they have lots of fish to fry and lots of fish they haven't even gutted yet.
Fish of this sort don't age well and need urgent processing.
Imagining the CEO making pronouncements with his mouth overfull.
Sorry Masters, i got impatient, realized that i'm an old guy with too many long term prospect stocks like this and bailed out on you..Stopped following the pertinent news.
It got pretty darn low there and hasn't come up much.
Given the great growth rate...
It's awfully cheap now.
There's some risk , obviously,
but the upside potential is staggering.
OOps...Sorry, correction
" Intrexon's Industrial Products Division has demonstrated microbial production of cannabinoids that has potential to provide >20-fold reduction in Cost Of Goods with reduced environmental impacts for THC and CBD versus current synthetic and extraction-based routes; "
Oh boy:
XON announced a cost efficient synthesis of CBD and THC that'll be 30% cheaper than "current methods".
That ought'a stir things up!
Yeah: I'm no trader..Research, buy and squat on it is my approach.
My iron sculpture takes up most of my free time. It's real and much more satisfying than trading.
The frictional cost of buying and selling constantly is a real handicap.
I like the biotechs and go for the promising long shots. Figure i'll lose on many of them ,but thus far the few winners have compensated.
I'm probably too old for this stuff, but it's hard to stay away.
Given the overall rate of growth of NVTA, it seems reasonable to plunk yer money down and go do something productive for long stretches.
There are a bunch of dynamically variable factors at play here.
The price of oil is strongly linked to politics and the health of the world's economy
While nat gas and WPRT allows for some very clean burning engines, the fracking process that's driven NG prices down is really polluting.
The Li battery tech that made EVs possible is subject to major tech innovation and non-Li batteries as well as batteries that use much less Li , are smaller and lighter, have been demonstrated in the lab and are working their was towards us.
Most electricity generation still burns fossil fuels.
WPRT needed to get their stuff together and produce low cost, fuel efficient engines years ago and didn't rise to the opportunity.
Perhaps they'll have another chance now.
And perhaps i'll break even on this puppy some distant day.
Too soon.
$6.60 and up 11% just now..
NVTA continues to grow at an astounding pace
and is a fine long term bet!
Now we have to make them as cheap and reliable as diesel, that's all.
But oil sure has jumped, above $70 last i checked, and the middle east sure looks unstable, as does South America.
Last time WPRT had real hope, it was on the back of expensive oil.
Guess we'll have a little race with them.
Storing H2 is even trickier than nat gas and fuel cells still have real drawbacks as well.
Confess that my doubts have been growing Masters.
Other companies have been developing competing tech and PACB doesn't seem to have the research budget to move out in front of that quickly enough....Just guessing on my part though.
Hi Yellow shoes:
Sure, eventually.
Unfortunately, there's still an enormous amount of basic research needed to meaningfully support that.
It's potentially huge! Billions of folks live in air polluted cities worldwide and heavy ZEVs aren't much in evidence.
It's going to take enormous breakthroughs in battery and electric motor ( substitute rare earth) tech first.
Our very low emission engines are here now.
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The HER2 genetic error shows up in many nearly incurable cancers.
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Genetic error = genome mutation, in these instances leading to cancer.
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A construct is a general term that includes vaccines.
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We have done the preclinicals and Ph 1 years ago if memory serves. I think they also began the ph 2.
Hey Terry; you've been around a long time and watched them squander the money and IP too, while other small bios pass us by with inferior science.
Beginning to feel the same Masters.
Just have to hope for a fat bit of good news at this point.
Having been a diver for many years, my advice is to relax as much as possible, you burn less air that way.
All it'll take is a conspicuous instance where our more accurate sequencing shows how to save a bunch of lives dramatically.
Oh come on guys.
Who'd be on this board as a neutral observer?
We all have a horse in this race.
The "niche" is quite large Jack.
Local service and delivery trucks of all kinds, buses including school buses, is a lot of livery ( chopped or otherwise).
Further, places like the port of Los Angeles, heavily air polluted cities worldwide and probably the whole silly state of California will have much more draconian air pollution controls in the near future.
We bought Fuel Systems, a well established european company that i'd sold at a loss a few years before.
Never really understood how a decently developed, in demand product in an established market kept losing $..Apparently, it still is.
I believed that NG was the fuel future and invested what i had accordingly.....
Wrong. Oh well.
I initially bought in at around $14 and don't expect to see that again, given my age.
Sure beats the heck out of a buck a share though!
As for Jack, he wants a strong rally too, so he can have something to short into. He's grateful to us shareholders, as we bought his boat...grin.
Hi Johnny:
It's easy to imagine that they are too busy, um, synergizing...
and suffering raging hierarchical disputes and maneuverings to bother about mere , incidental, minority stockholders.
Wonder if they can actually make it work?
The history of mergers is a mixed bag at best and neither company was thriving. It would take a brilliant CEO to make it work and i don't see evidence of one.
Instead of advancing the product and the science, they appear to be concentrating on the business of business instead.
Hey, i'm making $ on this one.
It pays a fat 9.7% and the share price keeps rising.
The company values seem pretty tasty too.
Hah!
Conspiracies abound Abounty!
But , rebountying 14%, perhaps we won the contest,
for a moment.
We do seem to have grown more than an ear or 2 of corn!
Fruits of no moderator.
I notice that despite a rising price for oil, UAN isn't following.
I've lost a fat penny here and stupidly didn't bail out when i should have.
Can anyone project a near future where this company survives and thrives?
Hi Cyber;
Nothing new.
We were always on the receiving end of of Darwin's hypothesis and will continue to be so.
Neither Darwinism nor AI much cares what our relative positions are. They are forces of nature or their equivalent and we are minuscule in their faces.
Darwin's dictates turn out to only be a seminal part of our present view of biological evolution and to disregard the rest is to be simplistic. You are being simplistic and something of a romantic here.
You infer values to "my principles" that never existed. This isn't religion!
Of course i'll try to save my ass. That would be consistent with " survival".
You romantically project a human vs AI war, as per 1950s science fiction pulps. Again, a bit silly and very dramatically simplistic.
In fact, neither of us have any bloody idea what will actually happen....But there are a great many shelves of books trying to think it through and , of course, dramatically guessing. Read some of the better ones.
Go read in depth about how evolution functions in the modern view. How ecologies accommodate new elements. How organisms adapt and adopt new species.
There are good reasons why life is still around after all these millions of years.
It seems much more probable that we will incorporate functional AI elements within us, in the not too distant future.
Woah! Up 14%!
Any idea why?
I didn't try to make a value judgement...It's just what we seem to be stuck with.
The probability that human values will be ignored as AI serves it's corporate masters is more than a little disconcerting.
Biology has learned a great deal since Darwin penned his seminal insights and a much more benign and nuanced overview has emerged, interestingly.
Perhaps AI will advance enough to understand the necessary interdependence of all living things.
AI is expanding and learning at a ferocious rate so it's possible that it will soon come to mature understandings before corporate culture has to be dragged into more civilized postures.
Perhaps.
Cyberoneiric
Capitalism is bluntly Darwinian in the --survival of the fittest --sense.
That makes it harsh and often unjust. It means that the weak and stupid fall by the way and don't contribute to the gene pool.
It also means that the players get the maximum freedom.
Alternative economic systems sacrifice freedoms for human interest concerns...Ideally.
A mixture of the 2 is necessary for a civilized nation.
We were stupid and invested in UAN and didn't bail out sensibly when things went south.
In the stocks arena, you have to spread your bets and hope success in one will cover your errors in stocks like this one.
As for capitalism, one can always leave for a nation with a more socialistic posture .
Hi Midas
~ Oh, i fainted a while back, and am still sniveling...
but i'm still here...grin ~