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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I was
disappointed that LANL didn’t invest in large scale solar.</span></p>
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I remember (15 years ago?) when the county did a big solar test
project with a Japanese consortium including Nissan and others...
there's a significant array of panels (tracking) on a plot of land
next to the landfill (next to TA-3)... I haven't eyeballed it in
quite a while, trivial I suppose compared to modern commercial
arrays (Kit Carson out of Taos has "several" such arrays). The
project included a "smart house" with a Nissan Leaf battery in the
garage and Nissan Leaf HVAC component to recover heat from graywater
(e.g. laundry/shower), etc. I think it is now rented to some small
local company and all the "smart components" are turned off.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> They just
get power from the county and have a couple of dedicated
coal-powered turbines. It is the Department of Energy for
goodness’s sake, they should be a leader on it. They even
have a hillside there where they could do pumped hydro. </span></p>
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<p>There was a (natural gas?) driven steam turbine system (long
since torn down and the Center for Integrated Nano Technology
built over the top of it) when I first started (1981) but when the
lab did a (very) big effort to turn over all of the infrastructure
to the county (including fire department, etc) lots of things got
folded in/out. <br>
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<p>Around 1995 I hiked ( a mile or two) up one of the canyons near
the West Gate and discovered a fairly small turbine
hydro-generator... it was probably smaller than a washing machine
but mostly cast iron housing, steel turbine blades, brass
bushings, copper windings I'd guess so probably weighed a
(several) ton or some goofball (not unlike me) would have hauled
it home by then and repurposed it to power their house by tapping
into the city water fire-hydrant system or something.</p>
<p>There was no evident wiring to/from it and no holding dam
remaining for it, it may even have been shifted (by human or
nature) from a higher location at some point? 100 years from now
some apocolypse survivor may find a similar sized deprecated
mini-reactor instead?<br>
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<p>The LA canyon reservoir (formerly used for "some" domestic water
in LA?) filled with silt/debris after the Cerro Grande... holds
no water, but I suppose it didn't have enough altitude/head in any
case... A few dams around the Valle grande outlets could yeild a
serious "crater lake" I suppose. Maybe a lake at the base of
pajarito ski hill (similar to Tahoe or a hill or two in NZ?).<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">My
impression is that LANL on the production side is still
reluctant to adopt AI. Anyone that has worked there could
probably guess why, but I won’t further comment! [lol] On
the Office of Science funding side, I think it is more
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In any case,
national lab HPC is pretty much quaint now compared to the
AI datacenters.</span></p>
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<p>I don't know when that flipped, but I suspect not too far into
Google and Amazon's growth curve? 2010, 2020?</p>
<p>I'm guessing that the internet fabric, even the "edge" nodes
represent something that dwarfs the National Lab HPC loci?<br>
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Maybe someone (Elno and friends, the Saudis once they finish "The
Line", Xi, Putin and his Oligarchs?) will work with a specialized
orbital mechanics transformer model to use a controlled Kessler
Collapse to create a Dyson-Sphere of PV panels absorbing sunlight
and LED panels re-emitting a suitable spectrum/volume to earth with
the ones facing away from the sun emitting heat to the universe,
with a layer of computronium between the two layers (inward/outward
facing)?<br>
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