[ExI] Sell your Bitcoins!

[Keith Henson]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 12:28 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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> From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Sell your Bitcoins!
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> Spike, concentrated solar will not do it. I looked into that while trying to think of what might be done with Ivanpah. Maybe you have an idea of how to use concentrated solar to make syngas, but I failed. I considered falling coal in steam behind a window, but the problems defeated me.
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> Keith

> Keith no power generation scheme will do it, if you mean do it all.  But all can do some.  Given enough power, coal can be converted to oil.  The South Africans have been doing that for decades.

I am intimately familiar with Sasol's process.

> PV farms, solar concentrators and wind turbines can supply power when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing, which could be used to convert coal to oil, off grid, no government participation needed.

Lots of luck. Like it or not, there is no way to keep the government
out of anything.

> A data center could devour what it needs, then the excess converted to other forms.  It will take a huge investment, agreed, but there is a lot of venture capital recognizing the dire and immediate need.

You can get venture capital in a heartbeat for software projects, but
for physical-level projects, it is not in style. These things take
years; you can't fund one and get out in 18 months.

Keith

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