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Zitat von rolleg: Tesla evolves with low cost utility battery launch

Tesla Motors reveals new range of home and commercial batteries that can give off-grid energy independence at a lower than expected price
http://www.mining.com/web/teslas-evolves-with-low-cost-utili…

Redflow welcomes Tesla's entry into advanced energy storage sector
Friday, May 08, 2015 by Proactive Investors

Redflow (ASX:RFX) has welcomed the enhanced attention electric car company Tesla's (NASDAQ:TSLA) entry into the advanced energy storage sector has attracted.

This has raised the public profile of affordable energy storage as a disruptive technology that enables renewable generation sources to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, increase distributed generation and deliver energy independence.

In response to enquiries from stakeholders about the commercial implications of Tesla's entry, the company said it currently delivers the world’s only currently available commercial modular flow batteries.

Alongside Lithium-ion and Lead-Acid based batteries, the Redflow Zinc Bromide Module represents a genuine ’third way’ in the energy storage realm, delivering distinct technical and application advantages relative to these traditional battery technologies.

Redflow’s ZBM DC battery module and its grid-scale LSB (Large Scale Battery) storage systems are in commercial production today via North American manufacturer Flextronics (NASDAQ:FLEX) and the company is on course to make significant commercial sales during this calendar year.

The company’s strategy includes constructing and deploying large-scale demonstration systems for key international markets, and bringing additional staff and technical resources onboard in key operational areas, as it moves into the volume delivery phase of our operations.

Its systems are already well integrated with a variety of key energy system and inverters in its major current market segments, including Telco/Data Centre 48V DC deployments, remote area DC and AC micro-grid systems and grid-scale energy storage, generation and delivery.

However, the technology advantages of flow batteries are also highly applicable to the emerging home energy storage market with the company developing a set of ‘turn-key’ exemplar solutions in conjunction with selected major brands of DC/AC battery inverter products that demonstrate the advantages of its batteries.

The company recently raised $16 million to fund a higher level of inventory, place demonstration systems and invest in new machinery.


ZBM advantages

Redflow’s ZBM batteries are available now and that they offer substantial technical and environmental advantages over Lithium-ion and Lead-Acid batteries especially when paired with renewable energy sources.

Redflow’s 48V DC modules are also easily and rapidly integrated into Telco and off-grid DC based micro-grid applications.

A key differentiator of Redflow’s ZBM is its capability to operate as a daily full-discharge, full-power workhorse that thrives upon being fully cycled each day.

The maintenance-free lifetime energy throughput of a flow battery is insensitive to variations in daily cycle depth.

In contrast, conventional Lithium-ion and Lead-Acid batteries are highly sensitive to discharge depth.

The overall lifetime of traditional batteries is also a complex function of the depth of discharge that is engaged by the energy application. A large proportion of their battery capacity must be reserved simply to ensure an adequate operating lifetime.

Further, these traditional cell types are temperature sensitive, requiring complex thermal control mechanisms and risking damage due to overheating or thermal runaway should the control mechanisms fail or the environmental conditions become unexpectedly worse.

In contrast, Redflow’s ZBM flow battery offers unique technical and robustness advantages:

- Operating in harsh environmental conditions, including running in ambient temperatures up to 50 degrees celsius without external cooling systems;
- Intrinsically safe, as their internal chemistry is naturally fire-retardant;
- ‘Smart’ batteries that self-protect when required. They cannot be overcharged;
- Can be charged and disconnected for extended periods, maintaining a 100% state of charge indefinitely, ready for later use;
- Can also be fully discharged and disconnected for storage purposes with no battery condition damage or degradation. By contrast, long-term storage of traditional batteries without an ongoing energy “trickle charge” input will render them into a ‘brick’;
- The internal modular construction of the Redflow ZBM, based on a separation of electrode, electrolyte and control systems and constructed without rare-earth metals, produces a battery that can be recycled cost effectively and in an environmentally friendly manner. The Redflow ZBM is also capable of in-field renewal to full operating capacity in the future via an electrode ‘stack swap’.

The Redflow LSB assembles and integrates up to 60 Redflow ZBM batteries into an intrinsically safe, high availability, grid-scale energy storage and delivery system with a capacity of up to 660 kWh per energy delivery cycle.

Any number of LSBs can be deployed together in order to scale energy storage and delivery to any required grid-scale requirement.


Analysis

The entry of Elon Musk’s Tesla into the advanced energy storage sector marks a milestone in its public recognition as a disruptive technology that enables renewable generation sources to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

Redflow is positioned to capitalise on this increased interest with its commercially available ZBM batteries that deliver distinct technical and application advantages over traditional Lithium-ion and Lead-Acid batteries.
http://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/62236/re…

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Chris Mancini's High-Quality Gold Miners that Have Positioned Themselves Well in the Downturn

Source: Kevin Michael Grace of The Gold Report (5/6/15)

Chris Mancini, an analyst with the Gabelli Gold Fund, is confident that gold's day will come, perhaps as soon as 2016. He argues that the decline of confidence in paper currencies is inevitable and that the Federal Reserve is fast running out of ways to prop up the U.S. dollar. In this interview with The Gold Report, Mancini advises investors to go for the best of the best: gold miners with cash flow, great balance sheets, low costs and good management. And he also highlights several companies that are unloved now but will become so when the gold price rises.
http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/chris-mancinis-high-qualit…

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Gravity Separation: 6 Gold Juniors That Have Soared So Far in 2015

Although the TSX Gold Index up 11.5% to date in 2015, some gold stocks have handily surpassed that benchmark. The following six companies have seen its share-price performance more than double the index returns as of May 6, 2015.
http://www.smallcappower.com/posts/gravity-separation-6-gold…

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SAS announces successful exploration results for Holt and Holloway properties:
http://www.sasgoldmines.com/s/NewsDetails.asp?id=122591

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Dynacor: Tumipampa Cross-Cut 330NW Advancement Discovers Two Gold Mineralized Structures, the Manto Nazareno and the Lisa Vein
http://www.dynacor.com/dynacor-tumipampa-cross-cut-330nw-adv…

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Claude Sets Another Quarterly Gold Production Record and Earns $5.1 Million in Q1

Highlights:

- Record quarterly gold production of 21,067 ounces, an 86% increase from Q1 2014
- Mill head grade of 10.17 grams of gold per tonne for the quarter, a 77% increase from Q1 2014
- Gold sales for the quarter were 17,326 ounces, a 59% increase from Q1 2014
- Total cash cost per ounce of gold sold (1) of $675 (U.S. $544), a 31% decrease from Q1 2014
- All-in sustaining cost per ounce of gold sold (1) of $1,374 (U.S. $1,107), a 28% decrease from Q1 2014
- Cash flow from operations before net changes in non-cash operating working capital (1) of $9.3 million ($0.05 per share), a 417% increase from Q1 2014
- Santoy Gap Deposit ramp up on pace to achieve 500 tonnes per day

http://www.clauderesources.com/html/news/press-releases/inde…

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Richmont Mines Reports a 23% Increase in Production and a 16% Reduction in Cash Costs in the First Quarter of 2015


Highlights:

- Gold production of 25,859 ounces in Q1 2015, up 23% over prior year gold production of 21,002 ounces; Q1 2015 gold sales of 24,791 ounces at an average price of $1,496 (US$1,205), up 21% over the prior year's gold sales of 20,412 ounces at an average price of $1,441 (US$1,306);

- Q1 2015 cash cost per ounce decreased 16% to $979 (US$789), from $1,169 (US$1,060) in the same quarter last year; All-in-sustaining-cost ("AISC") decreased 9% to $1,255 (US$1,011) from $1,384 (US$1,255) in the first quarter of 2014;

- Q1 2015 operating cash flows of $9.1 million, or $0.17 per share, on strong revenues of $37.2 million, a 183% or $0.11 per share improvement over Q1 2014 operating cash flows of $2.4 million, or $0.06 per share, on revenues of $29.5 million;

- Q1 2015 net earnings of $4.6 million, or $0.09 per share, versus Q1 2014 net loss of ($1.9) million, or ($0.05) per share, a $0.14 per share improvement;

- Island Gold Mine accelerated development on plan: primary ramp extended to a depth of 675 metres, strategic exploration drift on 620 metre level of the mine extended to a length of 290 metres, and secondary eastern ramp deepened to 470 metres;

- 2015 gold production guidance of 78,000 - 88,000 ounces maintained; Cash of $70.7 million, or $1.22 per share, as of March 31, 2015, and long-term debt of $5.2 million.


http://ir.richmont-mines.com/en/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=…

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Lucara Diamond Sells The Mothae Project At A Decent Price
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3151546-lucara-diamond-sells…

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Why Is It The Right Time To Buy Nevsun Resources
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3154586-why-is-it-the-right-…

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Alexandria Intersects More High Grade Veins at Orenada Within 101.5 m Zone Grading 0.93 g/t Gold
Read more at http://www.stockhouse.com/news/press-releases/2015/05/07/ale…