[ExI] Name for carbon project

Keith Henson hkeithhenson at gmail.com
Tue Dec 15 20:25:46 UTC 2009


A few of you have been following my work on solving the energy and
carbon problems.  Regardless of how you feel about carbon, energy
really is a problem, one that if not solved could really make a mess
of world civilization.

Given reasonable projections, it looks like the singularity might
arrive in the middle of famines and resource wars.  It is going to be
hard enough for unstressed humans to make rational decisions related
to AI/nanotech without war stress.

Unfortunately attention is focused on carbon and relatively little on
the energy problem even though the two are deeply connected.  Here is
one:

http://www.virgin.com/subsites/virginearth/

To have any chance of competing for the prize, the focus must be on
sequestering carbon.  That's relatively easy and painless if we
produce 15 TW of power satellites beyond human energy needs and use it
to make synthetic oil for storage in empty oil fields.

In any case, I need a name for the project, and the name should
include "carbon."

Any ideas?

Keith



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