[ExI] Trump Is Obsessed With Oil, but Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> 
Sent: Thursday, 22 January, 2026 9:37 AM
To: 'John Clark' <johnkclark at gmail.com>
Cc: 'ExI chat list' <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>; spike at rainier66.com
Subject: RE: [ExI] Trump Is Obsessed With Oil, but Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World

 

 

 

 

 





 

>… Put the data centers right there next to the plant, so the huge power cables are short. spike

 

 

Since reading about the legislation regarding power generation off grid, an idea has been rattling around in my head like a golf ball in an oil drum.  We know how traditional energy production works with some prime mover generating an electric potential, which is then converted using some sort of inverter to high voltage, transmitted a long distance to consumers and so forth.  

 

But what if… there is a consumer of the power right there, so that distance is irrelevant, high voltage is not needed by the end user and fire risk is controlled.  There would be no need to ever go to alternating current.  Those circuit cards use low voltage DC.  So perhaps the electric generation hipsters here can offer me (an investor with some technical sophistication) an argument why it is impractical to generate low voltage DC for use entirely by a very steady non-peaky user, located right there across the parking lot, which is very small because few cars go there, some very steady lazy prime mover not subject to market whims and other considerations, just sitting there way away from everything, generating lots of low voltage direct current carried a very short distance to an enormous data center which devour it all.  That would be a special case of power generation and distribution.

 

spike  

 

 

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