The panels, delivered by SRB Energy, are derived from vacuum technology developed at CERN for particle accelerators.

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Estimates of how much copper the SRB actually holds run from as little as 100, 000 tonnes up to 500, 000.

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But even if the SRB decides to honour the transactions, it will be hard to move such a huge volume of copper to LME warehouses by next month, as required by the contracts.

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Though these early efforts to take the heat out of the market were unsuccessful, on Wednesday the copper price dropped by more than 2% on news that the SRB was seeking permission to export up to 200, 000 tonnes of the metal.

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But there has been at least 10 years of experience of similar programmes (or perhaps 20 years, from City Challenge to SRB and Objective One programmes.) What we aim to show in our film is that the partnership model of housing renewal does not allow for full community involvement, despite the rhetoric of participation adopted by this and previous governments.

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