[ExI] Sell your Bitcoins!

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] Sell your Bitcoins!

 

On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 12:56 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

 

> A few years ago when the federal government was working overtime to destroy the coal mining industry, they told the unemployed miners to learn to code.  Now, AI is displacing many coders while the demand for energy is off the charts.  Perhaps the unemployed coders can learn to mine coal.

 

>…Telling unemployed coal miners to learn to code was a very stupid thing to say, but not NEARLY as cosmologically stupid as expecting coal to be the thing that will power future AI data centers… John K Clark 

 

 

We don’t.  It will be one of the power sources however.  Every power source needs to be increased to its maximum capability.

 

Some power sources are already maxed out, such as falling water.  Some are inherently limited by intermittency and unpredictability, such as wind power.  Solar power can be expanded and I expect it will be, however it still suffers from intermittency.  

 

Coal power has a bright future because it can burn like hell thru the night.  New coal mines can be dug and domestic sources developed. Coal fired plants can be built quickly.  The technology is already in place.  Nuclear power has a bright future as well.  

 

The point is that every power source available must be ramped up to capacity.  Coal and nuclear are compelling because we know how much they will produce at any point in time.  Unemployed lawyers and tax accountants can retrain in the coal and nuclear power industries.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

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