<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 24, 2025, 8:34 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-6773552234005368483WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> </span><span style="font-size:11pt"> They can build a power plant not connected to the grid, use that to power their server farms. Even if we ignore that, I made two big engineering mistakes no one caught.</span></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">I'm in no position to catch engineering mistakes. My intuition was that it would be a solution looking for a problem, but crazier idears make money in their niche. Whether larger or smaller that a metric buttload depends on the niche. </div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-6773552234005368483WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">We would need to buy power at triple the cost going in, then still have a less efficient operation.</span></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">From thart starting point, your niche is in the realm of nefarious and illegal activities which pays the overhead from highly risky endeavors. You gonna truck in mobile hacking rigs to break nearby networks? I think this is interesting guerilla cyberwarfare... but you're proof of concept is is white-hat until purchased and used elsewhere in the world, yeah?</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-6773552234005368483WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Come on mechanical engineering hipsters. You guys should have caught that efficiency mistake, even if not the other two things.</span></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">Do you think this entire approach to EV is viable? In the AA and AAA battery space, it's far easier to swap out of the device than to charge in-place. If we are standardizing plugs, why not standardize 'drive in empty, drive out full' swap? Surely you have no affection for "your" crummy hardware, amirite?</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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