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Yes KLH, that is also my understanding, just look at the amounts of money they are proposing to spend in the middle east, that has to be for the purchase of these installed plant you would think, also another thing that would prevent Solar Systems from owning all of the plants built would be the pure costs associated with that, just look at the amount they say that the completed plant at Mildura/Carwarp will cost, although I firmly believe the cost estimated for the completion of that plant will fall, I do know that the next dishes to be used there will be different than those that are there as of now, will they be CS1000? that is the question, my bet is yes.

I was given conflicting information about these new dishes that are coming, some said they were the same size as those already there at Carwarp 15M? some said the were a bit smaller and some said they were half the size 7m as against 15m for the existing, now we all know that Solar Systems have a new dish coming to replace the CS500, lets just call it the CS1000, not sure if that will be the name? but I think it may be around 7m in diameter i.e about half the size of the existing dish,it won't be using glass mirrors like the CS500 does but something cheaper I believe, they did say they had been talking to the automotive industry? I reckon these new dishes will have a a lot more output especially when it gets to use the new cells also being developed, I can see that the cost of these dishes could be around half of that for the existing dishes but twice the output maybe?

I did ask about these new cells, I said that surely they would already know to some extent how good they were or they would not have joined in this partnership to develop them surely? I got a nod and that was enough for me.

During the visit we were broken up into groups according to the color of a dot on our name tags, we were given a rundown on the dish system installed, we were shown a cell module which was manufactured at the Abbotsford plant, it consisted of 64 triple junction cells each being around 8mm in size there were 64 of these cells mounted to a small module which consisted of a small flat square gold colored box with the cells attached to this box, gold is a very good conductor of heat, this flat squarish box was hollow inside and had an inlet and an outlet to allow coolant (glycol) to be pumped through it to cool the module.

Each of the modules is capable of producing 100 volts DC, these modules are placed in the receiver or illuminator, in eight rows of eight, each row of eight produces 800 volts,so there would be 8 rows of modules each producing 800 volts, I think? that is the voltage that is sent to the inverter to convert to AC for the grid.

In the photograph of the dishes at Carwarp, when you look at the back of the dish, you will see two fan cooled radiators, these radiators are filled with coolant (glycol) which is pumped around the dish to the modules in the receiver, that is all the cooling required for the dish, so much for those that were saying you would need very large storage dams etc, just bunkum.

During the guided tour I asked the person who was conducting the tour several questions about these new dishes coming and the new cells coming, he tried to dismiss what I was alluding to at the time, but when I spoke with him afterwards in the company of a friend that went with me he told me that they were told not to say too much, he also conceded that what I was saying was on the ball, I was also talking to two of the directors, just before we left, I said to them that it was a pity that these dishes had to be built on site? I was trying to get more info about these smaller dishes, which in my opinion could be built at a purpose built plant and trucked to site that would have to be a far more efficient method of production especially when talking large amounts of the one product, anyway I digressed, the answer I got from one of the directors was, "it's amazing what you can fit into a shipping container these days" make of that what you will, I believe I already know the answer.

I was talking to Peter Campbell on the way back to the bus, I said to him that I thought the company was playing their hand very close to their chest and weren't divulging a great deal, he said to me "you are the second shareholder today who has said the same thing, so they know we know and they know they aren't saying much just yet.

I also spoke to Dr Michael Goldsworthy a couple of times, I asked him if it were possible to consider having an AGM in Melbourne? he thought on that for a second or two and said that may be a good idea? so hopefully we may get to have the occasional AGM in Melbourne for the benefit of Victorian shareholders now and again?


I also asked Dr MG about the supposed sale or partnership for Chronologic, I said there were a few who thought that it was supposed to happen before the end of June this Year, his answer was that that Silex had never set a date for that, I then said well perhaps we can look look forward to some decent news in the near future, he smiled and said yes that may be a possibility!
Not sure what you could call near term in Silex talk, but at least we know it is coming.

All in all, I am happy with the way things are happening even if they appear to be moving very slowly, I believe there are very good reasons for this, I personally am prepared to wait, because I think I have a grasp of the bigger picture coming now, even more so than I did before the trip, there were things I saw and heard that I would consider propriety, so I won't go there, perhaps I have already said too much? I hope not, I don't want to tread on any toes, the people I met were very helpful and particularly friendly, I thank them all for making the trip very worthwhile.

One very Important piece of info that I got from this trip was the fact that GE-Hitachi only hold the license for Uranium Enrichment full stop, if they want to use the Laser enrichment tech for other purposes like capturing actinides, then that would be a different license and more dollars for Silex, although I have a sneaky suspicion about Paducah, did anybody else think it was strange that it was Silex who made the initial announcement about Paducah and not GE-Hitachi or GLE?

I happen to think there was a message in there somewhere?

You can see the two fan cooled radiators on the back of each dish here.

You can see the smaller experimental dishes here at Bridgewater where we stopped for some photos on the way up, these experimental dishes are 5m in diameter, the new CS1000 dishes will be around 7m I am led to believe?


Sorry for the delay, I had trouble uploading the pics, I had to shrink them twice for emailing