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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple 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 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'> John Clark <johnkclark@gmail.com> <br><br><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>>…</span></b><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>And currently China has </span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>40 nuclear power reactors under construction, the US has none….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>I agree we should get on that.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…<span class=gmaildefault>Meanwhile our Mad King is tilting at windmills and thinks that will Make America Great Again….<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Note that last week the federal court overturned the mad king’s stop work order. Revolution Wind’s project offshore is expected to be fully operational this year. Some imagine the office of president to have powers it does not have, then accuse POTUS of abusing powers POTUS does not have.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>> </span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span></b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>put them in Greenland, power AI from there. Put the data centers right there next to the plant, so the huge power cables are short.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…There is absolutely</span></b><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>nothing preventing a company from doing that right now<span class=gmaildefault> if they think it makes any economic sense</span>,<span class=gmaildefault> there is no need to go to war with Denmark and conquer Greenland to get it done!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Clearly investors do not trust the government of Denmark. Imagine that.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=gmaildefault><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>> </span></i></span><span class=m8417122215310708238gmaildefault><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>John, everything isn’t about the current POTUS. </span></i></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…The current POTUS would <span class=gmaildefault><u>very</u> </span>strongly disagree with you….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>I know that, however I very strongly disagree with him. The constitution carefully and intentionally limits the power of that office.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…Experts have told corporations that some of the best places to put wind turbines is out at sea, there is no logical reason not to do so….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>I can think of some logical reasons to not do so. Investors will be in a constant battle with boaters, with environmentalists, with locals if the project can be seen from the shore. It would be vulnerable to attack by hostile military forces and greens.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>… We are far behind so we<span class=gmaildefault> </span>should be doing everything possible to catch up, but instead our Mad King is throwing up roadblocks<span class=gmaildefault> in our way</span>. Do you really think this will </span></b><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>M</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>ake America </span></b><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>G</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>reat </span></b><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>A</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>gain? </span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>> Put them on privately-owned land, privately financed. Done. [...] Federal government has no jurisdiction on wind turbines on privately-owned land,</span></i><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>… a <span class=gmaildefault>very </span>long list of permits from the federal government</span></b><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>;</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> for example FAA clearances, wildlife permits, environmental permits, permits that allow a wind farm to connect to transmission lines that cross state lines, and many others….<span class=gmaildefault> John K Clark </span> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Every form of energy production must have those permits. FAA clearances are easy if you don’t locate near an airport. Environmental permits, well that will be a challenge, I agree. Greens never met a prime mover they didn’t hate. Environmentalists have a very powerful federal lobby and will fight every step of the way on wind power.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>John as an S-alpha, one might think you would be more interested in power projects which can be fired up much more quickly than wind power. I can think of some examples: a big Diesel loco can produce 4 MW each. They can burn high sulfur fuel if located east of the border between California and Nevada. There are locos currently available, not new ones, but good enough and ready to go. Coal plants can be brought online faster than most alternatives, which is why those are so popular in China: their middle class is demanding a lot of power as it climbs into the middle class. Nukes are great, and even the greens are warming to them, since they take very little footprint and don’t produce CO2, however… they take longer to build.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>I see a bright future for coal, with plants along the state line on the Nevada side, since CO2 is not a pollutant there. It still is in California, but it is not in Nevada. So… put the coal plants over on that side, burn the plentiful Wyoming subbituminous coal, sell the power to California where it is worth a lot of money and park the server farms over on that side.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Wind power has its advantages, but it makes very expensive power, as Californians have seen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>spike <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>