[ExI] Fwd: announcement for talk "Storing Sunlight in Waste-derived Syngas"

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Ben
Zaiboc via extropy-chat
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>...The glaringly obvious thing that all 'renewable energy' enthusiasts seem
to ignore is that hydrocarbons are by far the most energy-dense form of
storing and distributing energy that we have ever discovered...

Ja, and I anticipate its continued use alongside a renaissance for fission
energy.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/01/germanys-shut-down-of-nuclear-plants-a-hug
e-mistake-says-merz/

Oh right Herr Merz, a decade after you were one of the biggest cheerleaders
for shutting it down.  And replacing it with solar?  Way the hell up in
those latitudes?  Sheesh.

>...Both seem do-able in the near future, so maybe we'll soon be able to get
back to driving decent cars again!

--
Ben

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Ben, a lot of us geezers held tight to our dinosaur burners, even those of
us living around central California, perhaps the most ideal place on the
planet for electric cars: no temperature extremes, lots of repair and
maintenance facilities, plenty of charging stations with few or no actual
customers in line, driving distances generally short, reliable power
infrastructure, perfect for EVs.

But...

I already knew from the car clubs where I worked that there is a group of
hardcore EV enthusiasts, who were early buyers, then a much larger IC crowd.


I toured Elon's factory, saw that it was a real thing, they were producing
good cars, lots of them.  I went right out and didn't buy any Tesla stock.
Big mistake.  I woulda been rich.  However... the reason I didn't was my
prediction that the market would saturate earlier than predicted, the demand
would cool.  It did.  Prediction right, resulting action, wrong.

According to Euronews, Volkswagen's profits are down to half, because of bad
bets on EVs:

https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/03/10/volkswagen-slashes-50000-jobs-a
fter-profits-collapse-by-nearly-half

If this article is correct, WV and the other German carmakers had to buy
carbon credits from China, who went all in on EVs.  The Chinese then used
the revenue from selling carbon credits (buying non-carbons from the
commies, sheesh) to undercut German-made cars.

Those of us who ponder these matters decided to keep and bear our
hydrocarbon burners.  The government will take away my V8, when they pry it
from my cold dead hands.

spike