[ExI] Sell your Bitcoins!

[Keith Henson]

I guess you have not been watching my proposal that makes intermittent
power into steady power. BTW, there is a more efficient way to use
coal with solar or wind. Burning coal gets around 2 MWh/ton.
Vaporizing it in steam with 4 MWh of intermittent power produces 12.1
MWh of syngas, which can be burned in a combined cycle turbine to get
about 7.5 MWh anytime you want it.

Best wishes,

Keith

On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 9:13 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
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> From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, 5 June, 2026 6:54 AM
> To: spike at rainier66.com
> Cc: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Sell your Bitcoins!
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> On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 8:55 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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>  > Every power source needs to be increased to its maximum capability.
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> >… we need every watt we can get our hands on if we expect to beat the Chinese in the AI race"?
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> Wind power is not well suited for AI.  The math needed to show that is not complicated: consider the capital which is idled when the wind isn’t blowing.
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> Solar is better, but the sun shines less than half the time.  For AI, coal and nuclear are the best ways to go.
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> >…complex procedural red tape to freeze or slow down both solar and wind power on federal lands. OK I can already see your knee jerking so let's hear your defense of this absurdity.
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>  John K Clark
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> No need to defend it, we knew solar farms on federal lands were subject to this kind of problem.  But there is pleeeenty of undeveloped private land which cannot be farmed because there isn’t enough water available.  There isn’t a strong incentive to put solar farms out there now because there are not a lot of power consumers nearby.  The investment in copper cable would be very high.  Simple solution: park data farms way the hell and gone out in places like the otherwise nearly useless land east of Lamont Wyoming:
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> https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wyoming/@42.2532712,-107.400434,117707m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x875ee23448e12e69:0x26b02279d27d382f!8m2!3d43.0759678!4d-107.2902839!16zL20vMDg0NnY?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDYwMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
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> That isn’t federal land.  The feds don’t want it.
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> I have been to Rawlins Wyoming on family history tours.  That is lonely country out there.  So… get all the private land you want for 100 bucks an acre, put your solar farms out there, then data centers will follow.  Get a coal plant to run when the sun isn’t shining.  Wind power might have some role out there, but none of it should use government money, particularly when the AI biggies have plenty to invest in that sort of project.
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> The current US government policy on AI is go ahead, but bring your own power.  So theeeeere ya go.
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