[ExI] Sell your Bitcoins!

[Kelly Anderson]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 1:28 PM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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.  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.  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.
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> spike

South Africa's plant that converts coal to oil is one of the largest
CO2 emitters on the planet. My brother's career was spent working for
the company that did that. I think I've told this story before, but
the construction of that plant to avoid anti-aparteid sanctions is one
of the better examples of unintended side effects out there. A short
term problem, aparteid, which was going to eventually go down anyway,
turned into a hundred year problem venting CO2 like a small volcano.

In case someone thinks everyone who ate the shit sandwitch of voting
for Trump is irrational, I'm currently in the process of installing a
large array of solar panels on my property. Not for my house, but for
my little factory.

-Kelly