[ExI] Satoshi Nakamoto

[Keith Henson]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Adding Arel back on CC.  (Hi, Keith's wife!  Thank you for putting up
> with him and keeping him sane.)
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> On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 11:38 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> I don't have money or room to build one even that small.
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> Yes, but you can come up with a budget for one (including the
> estimated room), yes?
>
> Think about this for a bit. The gasifier input falls 35 meters taking
about an hour into a pool of liquid iron at 1600 deg C. The syngas flows
upward through the falling MSW, cooling the gas and heating the waste along
with heating water to superheated steam. Tell me now to scale this down to
1/100 size and get meaningful datas out of it?

Some things just don't scale down. Power satellites don't scale down either
if you are using microwaves to get the power down. Paul Jaffe's group is
proposing to use lasers and existing solar farms. That might work, but I
can see show stopper problems with it.

Keith

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