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

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> 
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>...As you know I am a big advocate of nuclear energy, but I understand that takes a while to crank up, and many of us are convinced that our time is short, our energy needs are critical.  This next part is something John Clark will like methinks....spike  


Since you fellers started me on this topic, do indulge me please.

I sometimes go on family history tours, which often takes a prole way off the beaten path.  Even that is in understatement, for it isn't only the beaten path which must be abandoned, but the lightly traveled, slightly tickled path must be left far behind on most family history tours.  Example, Baggs Wyoming, a destination not for tourists, but for family history (my bride's grandfather was born there to a cowpoke (not kidding, an actual literal cowpoke (one tries to not ask (or even think about what is in the job description of a cowpoke.))))

Travelling thru Wyoming, one finds some of the loneliest country anywhere, with its redeeming qualities being far from anyone who would be annoyed by wind turbines, and is well endowed with senators per citizen ratio.  Google on Pathfinder National Wildlife Refuge.  There will be found adequate roads to haul wind turbine parts out along a waterway from which to get cooling water, far from civilization but near to (this is critically important) Indian reservations.  Back in the old days, Indian tribes were given that land, but most left it, for it is too remote to set up casinos are other profitable businesses, and they really don't want to gallop around bareback, twanging arrows at buffalo.  That is soooo 19th century.  Most of the native population left, but the reservations are still there, and they make their own rules.  So if wind turbines swat eagles out of the sky there, well, sue the eagles for flying too close.

OK so... Indian reservations, local chief rents space to billionaire paleface to build his data center, plant wind turbines everywhere on that nothing-forsaken windswept wasteland (we atheists sometimes struggle to describe deity-forsaken wasteland) draw cooling water out of Pathfinder reservoir, calculate our way to AI and our collective salvation, or the brutal destruction of humankind, one of those. 

spike