[FRIAM] war footing

[Gillian Densmore]

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For cars Hydrogen, compressed air, mixed with electric. On paper (or
plugged into a wall) is pretty cool as an idea...if we can, ya know, guild
recharge stations similarly to how we build gas stations.

Pardon the interruption though. But it's all fine and good to be perplexed,
or triggered or what ever by Russia and the (former) eastern block. Going
postal....
Any plans to put the same energy into fixing super hard  problems at home?
I hear that a lot of people are one paycheck from being homeless. and no
one's going out to lobby the &&&&&&&& out of a Weekly allowance aka UBI.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 10:32 AM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> One option is mixing hydrogen with natural gas to reduce how much needs to
> be imported.   IMO there’s nothing that motivates progress in technology
> than having a working production system that can be made incrementally
> better (e.g. the 20 TB hard drives one can buy these days).   A production
> ITER type system is still a long way off.   Note that Germany has its own
> Stellarator platform that perhaps they could accelerate.
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> https://www.offshore-energy.biz/germany-to-break-free-from-russian-gas-with-two-lng-terminals/
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> https://www.engie.com/en/businesses/gas/hydrogen/power-to-gas/the-grhyd-demonstration-project
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> https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5125328/05_21?c=14226
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> Yes, time to abandon that gas station.
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 2, 2022 9:08 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> Friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* [FRIAM] war footing
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> I'm thinking that a way to escalate our response to Putin, without
> actually fighting him, is to build a "green war machine".  Start a crash
> project to research, develop, and deliver the technology to liberate our
> european allies from their energy dependencies on russian oil and gas.  And
> everyone else as a side effect.
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> That this is all stuff that we *cough* should be doing anyway is bonus
> content.  But what we can't seem to do for the "right" reasons might be
> easily done as a way to thwart an enemy who is so successfully making
> himself the most reviled man of our age.
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> Longer term, the economic effects of the sanctions, the social effects of
> the ukrainian refugee crisis, and the demoralization of watching brute
> force in action are going to hurt our side a lot.  That may be Putin's
> actual endgame for the "operation" while he pretends to be Trump.   Better
> to be doing something positive than to be waiting around to see how it
> turns out.
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