[ExI] alpha customer

[Mike Dougherty]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2025, 8:34 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>   They can build a power plant not connected to the grid, use that to
> power their server farms.  Even if we ignore that, I made two big
> engineering mistakes no one caught.
>
I'm in no position to catch engineering mistakes.  My intuition was that it
would be a solution looking for a problem,  but crazier idears make money
in their niche.  Whether larger or smaller that a metric buttload depends
on the niche.

> We would need to buy power at triple the cost going in, then still have a
> less efficient operation.
>
>From thart starting point, your niche is in the realm of nefarious and
illegal activities which pays the overhead from highly risky endeavors.
You gonna truck in mobile hacking rigs to break nearby networks?  I think
this is interesting guerilla cyberwarfare... but you're proof of concept is
is white-hat until purchased and used elsewhere in the world,  yeah?

> Come on mechanical engineering hipsters.  You guys should have caught that
> efficiency mistake, even if not the other two things.
>
Do you think this entire approach to EV is viable?  In the AA and AAA
battery space, it's far easier to swap out of the device than to charge
in-place.  If we are standardizing plugs, why not standardize 'drive in
empty, drive out full' swap?  Surely you have no affection for "your"
crummy hardware, amirite?

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