[ExI] Where's the electricity power coming from?

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Sent: Monday, 6 October, 2025 12:09 PM
To: spike at rainier66.com
Cc: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>; BillK <pharos at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ExI] Where's the electricity power coming from?

 

 

 

On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

> But if the project is designed correctly, it is still returning SOMETHING on the investment from the day the first operable turbine swats an erne.

 

>…I suppose when construction started nobody dreamed that somebody in the government would be stupid enough to suddenly cancel a project that was on schedule and under budget and 80% complete, but they were wrong, somebody in the government was that stupid…

 

>From what I heard, the RevPower project out there started in 2023.  At that time, they already HAD the guy who supposedly shut down the project.  Was it so hard to foresee that guy would be back?  Was that possibility in the risk model?  Did you notice the price of shares for that previous and current POTUS being elected in 2024 never went below about 11 cents a share during the entire span of 2016 to 2020.  That 11 cents needs to be in that risk model.  

 

John if a project like that depended on government funding, and that risk cost isn’t in the risk model, I would be reluctant to invest in it, for government is capricious as hell.  If that possibility wasn’t in the risk model, then it is the fault of the investors.  A risk model must cover that kind of thing.  

 

>…But there is a silver lining to all this, according to He Who Must Not Be Named, whales will have mental health. 

 

John K Clark

 

Ja, so I hear.  I suppose it is working: we haven’t actually seen a crazy whale since the project was stopped.  

 

However… there is far more to it than that, and power projects should never be dependent on government funding: it is too risky, and the risk can only go up from here.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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