chas and dave

Vycon flywheels This thread has some good posts about flywheels. I read over the weekend about this flywheel company that may come to AIM soon. From the energy conservation perspective, I can imagine vehicles, wind turbines and other moving machinery would really benefit from this, an I suppose it hasn't happened because energy has been so cheap. It would seem especially useful to tie up with a wind turbine. Are these in use, or do the turbines have re.atively small flywheels with direct energy production rather than storage? What also occurs to me is how plain stupid we seem to throw away fossil fuels so readily. Bring on higher prices ASAP. Malco is usually good on these questions.

At the moment I feel OK as a UK investor in energy trusts in an ISA (as part of a diversified portfolio). I learnt about them firstly through this site, so feel I should keep an update going. Only time will tell if energy is presently expensive or cheap compared to months and years down the line. My total investment in 8 companies over the last 2-3 months is presently around cost price, and top of his minileague is harvest energy with a 7% gain in share price, c15% net income, whilst income has been constant since feb 06 throught to next two monhs. I took the path of investigating how regular the income payments have been to date, whether the company has a policy to try and ensure constant payments taking into account energy price fluctuation, plus I ook a serious look at growth and development history and prospects, and life of resource. At the time of buying these had 10-18% incomes, but the best will have diminshed with recent increases in share prices. My list is as follows Harvest Energy Trust Trinidad Energy Services Income Trust PrimeWest Energy Trust CCS Income Trust Fording Canadian Coal Pengrowth Energy Trust Penn West Energy Trust Enerplus Resources Fund

Russia cuts off oil exports to Belarus 08 January 2007 18:00 Russia has shut off crude exports to its western neighbour, Belarus, in a trade row that has halted supplies to Poland and Germany. Russia's pipeline monopoly Transneft claimed that it was forced to act because Minsk had been siphoning off oil illegally as payment in kind for a new oil shipment tax. The company says the charges are illegal. The European Commission said the cuts posed no immediate risk to European supplies but it was seeking an urgent explanation from Belarus and Russia. http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0108/oil.html http://top.rbc.ru/english/index.shtml?/new...85027_bod.shtml

http://www.rcresearch.com.au/documents-info The last free abridged report fromr Resource Capital Research was excellent and I've just been alerted to this companies new report. 'Abridged Report: (Free of charge) A critical overview of the uranium sector from a global perspective, providing useful investment analysis and valuations. This report reviews activities and assesses projects for a range of uranium exploration and development companies predominantly listed in Australia, Canada and the USA.'

Has any of you UK-based investors received an income payment from a Canadian Income Trust? I've read the TSX details about taxation for foreign stock holders, but wondered in practice, could you confirm how tax was treated? Even without some of the potential retracements of an average of 50% to yr highs, the price earnings and income levels of these seem attractive for some diversity of exposure to energy. pe income Fording Canadian Coal 6.2 13.7 PrimeWest Energy Trust 6.6 12.0 Penn West Energy Trust 8.5 10.9 Pengrowth Energy Trust 8.2 15.5 mean 7.4 13.0 But the article above, possible year-end selling, and further changes make it uncertain. however the suggestion in the article that CITs may be buy targets sort of contradicts the long-term gloom and doom. Aren't these still energy related producers with low PEs? PE, imcome after tax and possible lows still SEEM attractive. Don't know. I have a selection of UK traded geographically and size diverse energy COs, and had thought some of these would be a good addition. Any more comments welcome.

http://www.thesilverxchange.com I am told arrives marked marble object or suchlike, good service, and batman free.

United Solar Ovonic is a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices. ECD seems to have a fine range of alternative technologies, however the thin film solar panel production is being ramped up with two factories - a continuous-stream kind of production technique. The company seems to be getting installations int oEurope and it looks good to me. Cheaper, relatively hard to damage & flexible. There are a good number of example installations linked to these pages. ECD info can be read here ~ http://www.ovonic.com/eb_so_solar_overview.cfm Plus solar images here ~ http://www.ovonic.com/me_images_solar_contact_sheet.cfm And solar specific uni-soalr with illustrated projects here. http://www.uni-solar.com/

I spent some time reading about thin-film technology and Energy Conversion DeviceS ~ United Solar Ovonic I asked about energy sums compared with crystalline PVs and got the following reply, which I thought was interesting. ### Studies say that in general thin film amorphous technology has a energy pay back time of about 9 month, compared to crystalline silicon modules needing 3.5 years. Two numbers: our techno Si crystalline Thickness 0.001 mm 0.3 mm Process temp 300 degr.C 1420 degr.C Hence much less material at much lower temperatures, plus sawing losses with crystalline cells of about 0.2 mm, plus our technology does not employ glass. United Solar Ovonic Europe GmbH

I found this podcast interesting Silver Wheaton Corp. Gold Forum 2006 September 25 - 26, 2006 http://events.onlinebroadcasting.com/denve...&player=win Frizzers - can you explain the differences in the following for me To SLW - Silver Wheaton Corp. SLW.WT - Silver Wheaton Wt SLW.WT.A - Silver Wheaton Wt A SLW.WT.B - Silver Wheaton Wt B Best NYSE or TO? Ta

Thanks Frizzers - appreciated.

Thanks F for more info and comments on cos - I wll go back andlook again. I'm relatively inexperienced in stock trading and have been using iweb (UK) for occasional deals of 1-2k. I bought some ETF a while back as a basic and also Uramin - they are both easily available to me on iweb. I would like to invest in 2-3 the others but iweb will take time to make MAW and Paladin in Frankfurt available. With Uranium Poewr Corporation - they have sheep mountain - but then their website talks generally about Mongolia, but I didn't find anything specific, which was a bit confusing. So I need to find a way of dealing easily and cheaply with smaller investments, preferably online rather than by phone, in various markets, esp. Toronto. Is that too much to hope for? As a newbie, what share-dealing service would anyone suggest might tackle this and some of the gold cos mentioned? I feel a berk to have to ask (expect the info is tucked away somehwere on the GEI site anyway), but there it is.

at the moment today 2pm NU.L NUFCOR URANIUM +7% PUR.F PALADIN RESOURCES +6% UMN.L URAMIN +8% UUU.L URASIA ENERGY +9% MRY.F MAWSON RESOURCES minus 9% (why?)

I see there were some rises today on some other Uranium stocks after Cameco's Cigar Lake mines partially flooded. Paladin + 6.8% Mawson + 3% Uramin + 1.1% The Dines pod-cast was an enjoyable 45 mins, and mentioned Mega Uranium. I came across the following from Resource Capital Research - various detailed reports mostly free. http://www.rcresearch.com.au/documents I probably have this wrong - UrAsia Energy (Kazakhstan) seems to have a high market cap to uranium ratio, whereas Mega Uranium, Uramin, Uranium Power & Mawson for example have much smaller ratios, esp Mawson and Uramin (although this is a mix of early to later stage developers). I'v found that Mawson and Paladin can be traded in Frankfurt and Uramin on Aim.

Are these reasonable vehicles for oil trading? Any comments Thanks OILB.L ETFS OIL SECURITIES London 8:17 $54.58 -2.03 -3.59% OILW.L WTI ETFS OIL SEC London 8:10 $60.97 -2.08 -3.30%

In UK, iwebshares do the slv etf (also Lyxor commodities ETF) https://share-dealing.iwebsharedealing.co.u...AMX&Ccy=USD can confirm positives re silverexchange