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S selling, JM retiring, Lebby not signing any deals.
OK, Mind to 3X and .5. Next deal!
Still curious about the LWLG transceiver. Going from modulator to transceiver is a big step. I know LWLG talked transceiver goals at one point. Wondering if they continued that big time idea?
Last year’s award winner was bought out. X, I like your observation on the fact that there is value for a company that has products in the pipeline that others can judge the proximity of revenue. Especially, for companies with products that have been independently tested and confirmed as a value-added product.
Johnny, can you make the internet faster? Well, yes I can make it a little faster, depending on how much you pay. Oh, is there a product made by a company that can help us make the internet faster? Yes, I heard of of a company. They have many patents to make the internet faster in the next 1-5 years. O.K., Johnny, tell me the name of that company?
Great, all these risk taken OTC investors now on the NASDAQ, crazy stacks of dollars to add to the pile. So grateful that LWLG ultimately pulled their company altogether with great Mgt. and great Scientist and finalized an ultimate current day commercial product, ultimately exceeding my expectation. Lebby came up in at the #4 position and hit a walk-off grand slam to win the game, no doubt.
If a Co. could improve data/telecom speeds 2X at a lower cost, would you make an investment in that company?
Sold half today (sorry it was me), will keep the other half to the moon. I like the 1500 estimate or a quick buyout for 100 or above. I've been around this place (yahoo and investorshub) since 2008, buying and selling. I can't believe how much I know about photonics, ridiculous. I could talk it up with Photonicsguy and X'ster for sure. Well, I made an shareholder meeting and talked to Marcelli and a few of you guys on this board. So worth it. Anyway, I'm going to put my half in my own business and it's going to be huge. Dollar bills baby!
OR NASDAQ: CAP Market: Market Value: $2 at close day of list or $4 bid price day of list AND: "* Currently traded companies qualifying solely under the Market Value Standard must meet the $50 million Market Value of Listed Securities and the applicable bid price requirement for 90 consecutive trading days before applying."
NASDAQ: CAP Market: Equity Standard: $3 at close day of list or $4 bid day of list.
Seems like they qualify under both the Equity Standard and the Market Value
methods. The Market Value method does require 90 days over $2:"Currently traded companies qualifying solely under the Market Value Standard must meet the $50 million Market Value of Listed Securities and the applicable bid price requirement for 90 consecutive trading days before applying." However, why don't they use the Equity Standard method now that they have a bid and closing price over $4 and $3, respectively.
Bid or Closing price ON DAY OF LISTING if listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market is a bid of $4 or a closing price of $2. Not an expert, just reviewing the NASDAQ Initial Listing Guide. Keep on doing the investor conferences and tell everybody you filed for listing. The share price will take care of itself.
If you submit to the Paris Agreement (PA), then LWLG is gold standard...Any company upgrading their networks with 35gbs Silicon based networks (Germany and Nokia Agreement) is in violation of the the PA when you know it can be upgraded with a polymer with a much lower power requirement. However, it's difficult to break the norm of the day. Germany is going from to slow to almost good. So, the countries that will enforce the Paris Agreement and want to upgrade their network will start to select equipment with lower power footpfrints. Yeah, I've been to a shareholder meeting and I met in person Jim M. and KCC, great people.
How The Internet Is Killing The Planet
Oilprice.com Alex Kimani,Oilprice.com 10 hours ago
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Beyond the painfully obvious plight of a planet addicted to fossil fuels, climate change has another bogeyman that few--with the possible exception of Keanu Reeves--would be willing to give up.
Yet, it’s responsible for a huge chunk of our global greenhouse gas emissions.
In fact, by 2025, it could be responsible for a staggering 20 percent of global electricity consumption and up to 5.5 percent of all carbon emissions.
And you’re doing it right now.
That bogeyman is the Internet of Things (IoT) and the tsunami of data it must power.
Academics are challenging the notion that we can considerably reduce carbon emissions by increasing efficiency and cutting down on waste.
In fact, they warn that the internet explosion and increasing connectivity via the IoT and smart devices could increase global emissions by 3.5 percent by 2020 and up to 14 percent by 2040.
In an update to a 2016 peer-reviewed study, Swedish researcher Anders Andrae says the ICT industry’s power demand is likely to increase from 200-300 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity a year in 2017, to 1,200-3,000TWh by 2025.
Data centers alone could emit 1.9 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon emissions, or 3.2 percent of the global total.
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Let’s put that into perspective: Consider that the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that global electricity demand rose by 4 percent in 2018, the fastest pace since 2010. Our planet consumed a staggering 26,700 TWh of electricity in 2018, with China gobbling up the lion’s share at 6,167 TWh, while the United States was the second largest consumer at 3,971TWh, and India third at 1,243TWh.
Coal supplied the biggest chunk of our electricity at 38 percent, while gas and hydro were second and third at 23 percent and 19 percent, respectively.
Only 3 percent of our electricity came from oil.
The percentage of electricity generation from oil has been in constant decline since 1973 when it stood at an all-time high of 22 percent. All other forms of power generation, including renewables, coal, gas and nuclear recorded growth with oil being the only decliner.
Electricity mix
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Source: IEA
Electricity generation
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It’s not by coincidence that heightened electricity consumption has come at a time when the internet is growing at an unprecedented rate.
The Next Web reported that there were 4.4 billion internet users across the globe at the beginning of the year, a 9-percent year-over-year increase.
India recorded the biggest growth in internet users at 97.8 million with China and the United States taking second and third slots with 50.7 million and 25.4 million additional users, respectively.
But it’s not just people chatting on Facebook and WhatsApp that’s putting paid plans to control emissions. It’s far bigger than that.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of smart devices such as home appliances and vehicles that contain an assortment of electronics, sensors, actuators, software and connectivity (usually the internet) which allows them to connect, interact and exchange data.
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US researchers now expect internet power consumption to triple over the next five years as one billion more people in developing countries come online while IoT, robots, driverless cars, artificial intelligence and video surveillance grow exponentially in rich countries.
According to projections by Gartner, there will be 20 billion interconnected devices by 2020.
Internet users
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Source: The Next Web
And now back to our question of the day: how many barrels of oil does the internet consume?
According to current estimates, the internet consumes ~3-5 percent of the world’s electricity output, which works out to 1,068TWh at the mid-point.
Statista estimates that 1 barrel of oil can generate about 578kWh of power.
Electricity
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To generate 1,068TWH of electricity you would therefore require 1,847,750,000 barrels of oil, or 1.8 Gbbl in shorthand.
That’s a tremendous amount of oil.
However, oil accounts for only 3 percent of our electricity mix, which works out to 55,432,000 barrels.
Luckily, we are not about to run out of oil to power the internet considering that the world produced an average of 94.7 million barrels of oil every day in 2018. Even a six-fold increase as predicted by Andrae would still leave us well covered.
What’s disturbing is the sheer amount of greenhouse gases our ocean of connectivity will be spewing out.
The End Game?
As climate change becomes a formidable foe, and as negative attention shifts to fossil fuels on this battlefield, most forget about the internet--the very tool being used to organize action on climate change. Yet this very same tool is becoming one of our worst emitters of greenhouse gases. Every time we use data, we’re contributing to the destruction of the planet.
And in this case, it’s difficult to make oil the monster.
Instead, climate change activism, which goes down online in large part, is being powered most notably by coal, which accounts for nearly 40 percent of the electricity we consume globally.
In other words, depending on where you live, every time you get online the chances are, you’re killing the planet with another chunk of dirty coal.
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OK, listened to the SHM replay. Management purchases of the LWLG stock are needed. As a CPA, I certify there are no roadblocks for management to buy LWLG to the best of their ability. Thus, I expect to see some purchases from certain senior management.
Beyonce $6 mil UBER now $300 mil in 4 years. LWLG investor $6 mil still $6 mil. When do we see returns?
It's clear, we need to ex-communicate Zelibor. He is a government official babysitting this technology. He has very little (if any at all) experience in helping any company become commercial. Honestly, I am expecting his voluntary resignation at this shareholder meeting.
True, but they have a 50 Gbaud device that is capable of base data rates of 100 Gbps when used with PAM-4 modulation.
Q1 update was tired and non-existent. Thus, I expect a "HUGE" update at the shareholder meeting. Hopefully we have a buyout offer. Z, M and L just don't have what it takes to make a "Facebook, Tesla, Uber, etc." type a company. For example, I think Tesla has made like an electric car and rocket that probably that can go to MARS in less time than LWLG has tried to make a commercial product. RIDICKULOUS.
Despite record profits, Amazon didn't pay any federal income tax in 2017 or 2018. Talk about having no value. An entity really has very little social value if it doesn't meet it's social obligations. This company is a scam until it can meet it's social obligation like every other regular f'in American and pay some taxes.
Basically, I'm a CPA and can run circles Morison Cogen LLP. Thus, if shares continue to be issued without revenue recognition, I will absolutely make Morison Cogen LLP provide support for their opinions over the years since 2005.
Zelibor is a government official that never made a commercial deal or financing deal. He is famous at LWLG for a major 2014 prototype failure and a know for 2018 non-commercialization. Yes, they re-focused at the end of 2014 and 2015 due to prototype failure at the U of Colorado. He can forfeit all of his shares back to shareholders if he where to retire. Really, 80 million shares outstanding with no revenue is half way to entity suicide.
5G from China will take over unless LWLG gets their product integrated with today's technology. If we do not see any progress in the next month or two with 5G, Tom and Jim will need to retire and forfeit their stock to fund the next couple months of operations of LWLG. Really, they had their chance.
5G phones go APPLE crazy in 09/20, 5G chips due 01/2020!! So, is LWLG really part of this 5G upgrade. I doubt it. I see no deals or no news releases. Good lord, Intel walked on 5G phones today because somebody handed them (their..) a blow that start with a "A..". So, we get a big deal or we ask for Tom and Jim to walk. Lebby is the games at this point. However, I'm concerned he will not make 5G. Then what?
As Huawei begins to dominate 5G communications networks across the world (yes the real world, not press release world), little'Ole LWLG is still in the LAB. Really, Huawei is singing deals with whole countries and even telcom's in the US. OK, the Huawei 5G is on hold in the US due to the fact the government finally pieced it together that if another country builds your network, they well know how to manage that network (or they call it a "backdoor"). Really, it's not a backdoor, it's a standard setup by a country and a fast pace, high flying technology that blew away all the US competition. Yes, unfortunately, LWLG falls in the blown away category (LAB theory and no products, financing and sales). LWLG is so far out of the 5G game at this point, they might not make it all.
Toxic prototype failures and Toxic financing has been the history so far at LWLG. I hope they book some prototype orders in the next couple of months. This will give the investor confirmation that LWLG actually has a marketable product. I hope they arrange new financing. LWLG is reaching a critical stage of dilution for a company that has no revenue. Oh, Toxic is the 2018 word of the year and it really does describe LWLG's financial performance in 2018.
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Dilutive financing continues to crush the share price and will minimize future gains. I expect the share price to continue to decline until they sign a meaningful partnership or sale the company outright. The share price gains will be minimal and fleeting if they make an announcement that they have delivered prototypes to customers due to the dilutive financing approach. Why, over a revenue cycle of 27 years, they have issued too many shares. Thus, to start to dig their way out of this dilutive position, they need to find other methods of financing. Simply put, they are issuing shares faster than future income will be earned. Take POETF as an example, they recently received an order for their POET Optical Interposer and their share price has not gained a penny. Why, as of 12/17 they have 260 million shares outstanding and reported a net loss of ($13) million. POETF received a $3 million dollar order. However, POETF will need 5-10 $3 million dollar deals to break even and they will need to make $260 million to have a PE of 1. At this point, I’m not sure how POETF will manage to be a going concern in the future unless business really picks-up. LWLG is on the same path at POETF. They need to get a better financing deal today. Lebby stated in his last Open Letter to Shareholders “By being ahead, we appear to be gaining significant market leverage through technical advantage. Market leverage in this sense does not relate to financial leverage but to a specific competitive strength.” He should be able to take this competitive strength to the bank and get a $25 million loan or to a future partner and make a good financing deal.
Mike has not proven himself as a CEO. I am waiting for that moment where Mike can take his technological experience and combine it with finance and operations to create a great CEO.
With all of Mike's experience and knowledge, we are a $.89 stock. While I appreciate Mike's experience and knowledge, he has has not improved LWLG position a single point.
LWLG White Paper should be published in eetimes.com. It's not really a white paper until it's published in the eetimes.com. So, Mike, please publish your paper to the group of the public who cares about electronic/photonic advancement.
If you have the best product, you have the best financing. Otherwise, somebody is lying.
All LWLG CEO's have had prototype ideas. Yes, Jim, Phil, Tom and Mike have had prototype ideas. None of them have converted. At this point, Mike introduced his chip in 2017. Now, 2 years later, still trying to package (obviously poor partnering) and prototype. So, Mike is working with an average to below average packing partner. For the life of them, they can not optimize a prototype package. I for one, am totally amazed that these dudes ( Mike, Tom and Jim) can run around and claim technological RWM superiority and actually not produce a damm thing. If I could borrow $55 Million from inventors I could start a pizza franchise or a Green MJ business and fill my investors pockets full of returns. Now, at this point, we are the smartest idiots on the block. What that means is that we need to stop the share dilution due to the Jim, Tom and Mike product delay. Thus, LWLG should smartly finance their company and stop issuing shares to the public (granted we might need to fire Jim if he can't comprehend). Now, LWLG needs to borrow at least $25 million. They can put a secondary share dilution program behind the debt, perfectly acceptable. However, if they truely have a technological superior product as Mike has claimed, then getting the matching finance is no problem.
Official statement of 50gbps available to customers in 2018 is as follows from the latest 10Q: Ridge Waveguide Modulator
Our ridge electro-optic waveguide modulator was designed and fabricated in our Longmont, Colorado laboratory. The fabrication of our first in-house device is significant to our entire device program and is an important starting point for modulators that are being developed for target markets. We have multiple generations of new materials that we will soon be optimizing for this specific design. In September 2017 we announced that our initial alpha prototype ridge waveguide modulator, enabled by our P2IC™ polymer system, demonstrated bandwidth performance levels that will enable 50Gbps modulation in fiber-optic communications. This device demonstrated true amplitude (intensity) modulation in a Mach-Zehnder modulator structure incorporating our polymer waveguides. This important achievement will allow users to utilize arrays of 4 x 50Gbps polymer modulators using PAM-4 encoding to access 400Gbps data rate systems. Pulse-Amplitude Modulation (PAM-4) is an encoding scheme that can double the amount of data that can be transmitted. These ridge waveguide modulators are currently being packaged with our partner and will be available for evaluation by potential customers in 2018. In parallel, we are simulating and modeling the modulators for scalability to higher data rates above 50Gbps and lower cost structures that will be competitive with incumbent technology. This provides our technology platform with higher levels of scalability and will provide potential customers with technological solutions that they are currently looking for.
The ridge waveguide modulator represents our first commercially viable device, and targets metro networks (< 10Km) within large scale telecommunications and data communications networks and represents at least a $300M per year market opportunity for us.
A Cacophony of Nostradamus's say to sign the best deals with the best Data communication companies.
Can we delete these last year's pictures. Honestly, that was the Lebby pump, right? Lebby totally pumped this company in 2017 and didn't follow through with his pump, LOL!!
Not impressed with Lebby's sytle of management. My next comments will not reflect well for Lebby, as I have invested some 401k funds in this company. IE, 2017 50 Gig, whoops don't have a package.
Board is open for Zelibor and Marceli retirement statements?
Marceli and Zelibor to retire? No prototype, no job!!
Gatesoft55 and Jeunke22, A bet, a T. Zelibor and J. Marcelli for a prototype news release. At this point, Lebby is CEO and chairman. Zelibor seems to be a figurehead. Marcelli is an operations manager. However, his last 10-15 years have been as an operations manager of an R&D company with a $50 million personal loan and no production. Thus, any operation skill he once had are now outdated. So, take a bet. A prototype press release, I will write the board for a major increase in salary for Zelibor and Marcelli. No prototype news release, you write the board for a resignation based on previously stated facts.