[ExI] Power satellites are being developed now

[John Clark]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> The SPEED act is likely to go into effect in the USA soon, which will
> fast track traditional power generation over the slower cleaner pricier
> approaches such as satellite, solar, wind and nuclear.  The price of coal
> and natural gas is down.  We have designs and materials ready to go on both
> of those.  Atmospheric emissions have recently become nearly irrelevant in
> light of the short time to singularity.  Carbon burning techniques are so
> annoyingly low-tech, old school, but... there is an AI arms race, AI needs
> power, and the old-time way can make that happen faster and cheaper than
> the cool high-tech trendy spendy high-endy alternatives at this point.*


*I certainly agree with you about that because, other than avoiding
thermonuclear war, compared with AI all the other problems facing the human
race fade into insignificance.  But you also seem to feel that the most
important problem facing civilization is the US budget deficit, and I
certainly don't agree with you about that. I maintain that my views have
more logical consistency than your views.  *

*John K Clark*
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