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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> spike@rainier66.com <spike@rainier66.com> <br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</span></a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> This would be cool, and probably already exists: a power grid management sim game, a good realistic simulation…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Does anyone here know if such a thing exists. One would think so.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>…<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=power+management+simulator">https://www.google.com/search?q=power+management+simulator</a> shows quite a few. You'll have to judge how good and realistic they are.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Cool thx. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>I visited the </span>Moss Landing <span style='color:black'>site yesterday, where the battery fire happened. I wanted to look at the site to see for myself its potential. </span>It is hard to see much of anything from the road side, as they have everything blocked off. You can see scorched buildings nearby which apparently did not burn. <span style='color:black'>I rented a kayak and paddled around back. Afterwards I came away convinced that site would be built back with batteries, and realized why: it has the infrastructure in place which makes it extremely valuable as an energy storage site.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>What I don’t know and what determines if I will invest in it, is what fire protection systems they will have in place this time. There hasta be a way to isolate a thermal runaway to protect the rest of the batteries.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>It was a nice kayaking day and very informative. Those two vertical features are smoke stacks from the Moss Landing power plant, on which is the lithium battery storage facility.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-ligatures:none'><img border=0 width=262 height=369 style='width:2.7291in;height:3.8437in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01DC5262.DE650FB0"></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I predict the Moss Landing station will be back within four years (assuming the Singularity doesn’t happen before then.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>