<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The SPEED act is likely to go into effect in the USA soon, which will fast track traditional power generation over the slower cleaner pricier approaches such as satellite, solar, wind and nuclear. The price of coal and natural gas is down. We have designs and materials ready to go on both of those. Atmospheric emissions have recently become<u> nearly irrelevant in light of the short time to singularity</u>. Carbon burning techniques are so annoyingly low-tech, old school, but... there is an AI arms race, AI needs power, and the old-time way can make that happen faster and cheaper than the cool high-tech trendy spendy high-endy alternatives at this point.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>I certainly agree with you about<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>that because<span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span> other than avoiding thermonuclear war<span class="gmail_default" style="">, compared with AI all the other problems facing the human race fade into insignificance. But you also seem to feel that the most important problem facing civilization is the US budget deficit, and I certainly don't agree with you about that. I maintain that my views have more logical consistency than your views. </span> </b></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><b>John K Clark</b></span><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><br>
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