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

spike at rainier66.com spike at rainier66.com
Sat Jan 24 00:00:55 UTC 2026


...> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] Trump Is Obsessed With Oil, but Chinese Batteries Will
Soon Run the World

>...I still don't see why nobody is taking Statosolar seriously.
It's technically feasible, would generate a lot of power, has almost zero
ecological impact, and would cost a fraction of nuclear power plants, plus
the incidental benefits of cheap communications infrastructure,and could
even pave the way for cheap and efficient space launches (yes, that's
speculative).

---
Ben

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Ben where is Ed Kelly these days?  Is he still in San Jose?  Keith and I
used to have lunch with him in Mountain View back in the olden days.

spike



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