Retired science attorney, chemical engineer, now researching and write rebuttals to CO2-induced global warming.
Joined August 2021
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My paper presented at AIChE from 2020, free-access, with NOAA’s own data for temperatures in 82 remote, tiny towns in CONUS, from 1900. Zero warming was found. A 60-year cycle is clearly evident.
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Introducing the QS PowerBlock for AI data centers: 4x the power density and 5x the runtime of current industry standards.
Batteries are moving from backup power to critical infrastructure.
youtube.com/watch?v=R7mxToJM…
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says:
"50% of all entry-level Lawyers, Consultants, and Finance Professionals will be completely wiped out within the next 1–5 years."
Over 47 minutes, he breaks down who makes it through and why.
That's the gap between passively watching AI eat your field and turning into the person companies can't afford to lose.
Watch the video. Then check the guide below on becoming the "AI guy" every company needs.
Interested in AI?
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I track ChatGPT, Claude, and every tool quietly changing how we work and create, then hand you the tested signals.
Re the young unable to afford their bills. Are Boomers to blame? Yes, but only the Madison Avenue Boomers.
I’m a mid-Boomer, born 1953. I saw this happen.
We had basic cars, simple houses, basic clothes, few restaurants, cheap hotels and motels.
Grocery stores had seasonal produce and lots of canned food.
Then MadMen started advertising luxury in everything; cars, houses, clothes, etc.
A car then had manual transmission, rollup windows, manual seats, standard brakes and steering not power brakes or power steering. AC was a dealer add-on.
A used car went for $300 to $400, roughly $2000 in today’s money.
But, cars today are what we called fully loaded, every comfort possible.
Houses? We had no appliances built in. The new owner brought in a fridge, stove with oven, but only the rich had a dishwasher. A master bath was as tiny as the hall bath. AC was absent; we had an attic fan and opened the windows. No one had a lawn sprinkler system nor lawn mowing service.
Dont get me started on basic clothes from a catalog vs fancy mall stores.
Then the obligatory dig at Starbucks, as we had zero such in the burbs.
I hope you watch advertising in a different way, after reading this.
Boomers lived cheaper because we lived simpler lives.
My proposal Re Water for the dry Western states:
sowellslawblog.blogspot.com/…
Transfer by pumping flood water from the Missouri River across the Continental Divide in New Mexico into the Lakes Powell and Mead.
Reduced flooding plus water for the West.
Sept 11, 1961. Hurricane Carla hit Houston, Texas. I remember it well.
“Carla was considered one of the largest major Gulf hurricanes in the 20th century. There were 43 deaths, approximately half attributable to tornadoes and floods accompanying the hurricane and property damage estimated at over $300 million. Loss of life was held to a minimum by prompt evacuations. Over a quarter-million persons were reported evacuated from coastal and low-lying areas.”
weather.gov/lch/1961Carla
Here we go. EV for $30,000.
Hyundai opens IONIQ 3 EV orders, starting at about $30,000 electrek.co/2026/09/02/hyund… by @EVPeteJohnson
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Storage is delivering grid reliability—without the drama.
When the sun goes down, batteries are stepping in, deploying the low-cost solar energy, and saving YOU money.
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I paused new data center projects pending a statewide grid audit.
Data centers must disclose their plans to pay their own way, provide their own power, reuse their own water, reduce the cost of electricity, & avoid disturbing neighborhoods.
foxnews.com/politics/texas-g… #FoxNews
Re COVID, Fauci, and lies told to the public.
Which is worse: lies with orderly public action, or
Truth with a panic-stricken public with pandemonium?
The next virus could be much worse. Much…worse.
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Austin's Project Connect is the most disastrous transportation plan in America. All you need to know:
- In 2020, Austin asked voters to permanently raise everyone's property taxes for a train.
- The pitch: $7.1 billion, 20 miles of light rail, 26 stops, a downtown tunnel, a direct ride to the airport.
- It passed with 58%. The tax is permanent.
- Then the plan changed. No tunnel and no airport. Half the length and just 15 stations. And it costs much more: $8.23 billion.
- That's $840 million per mile. Most expensive transit project per mile in Texas history. Second-most-expensive light rail project in America
- Half the money ($4 billion) is supposed to come from DC. No grant awarded and no signed agreement.
- The rest is your property tax, plus loans repaid with your property tax, plus bonds repaid with your property tax.
- The FTA reviewed the financial plan and said the revenue assumptions are bogus and there's no reserve for overruns.
- First passengers ride in November 2033.
- Does it fix traffic? Projected effect on regional driving in 2045: a 0.044% reduction. Four hundredths of one percent.
- Ridership is so low it works out to $244,000 in construction cost per daily rider.
- The city's own analysis says congestion gets worse with the train.
- Morning rush hour bottlenecked intersections will increase about 33%. 71 businesses displaced and hundreds of homes affected.
- Parking will get much more expensive -- 607 parking spaces to be eliminated downtown, on South Congress, etc.
- Meanwhile the city spent $255 million on 197 electric buses. The batteries couldn't handle Austin heat so many sitting in storage.
- ATP, the agency spending your money, is run by five appointed board members. You vote for none of them. The CEO makes $405k. They tried to lease fancy downtown office space for $32 million in rent, and only dropped it after people noticed and pressured city council.
- Transportation experts call this one of the most wasteful transportation plans they’ve ever seen
If the 2020 ballot had read "9.8 miles of rail, no tunnel, no airport, $8.2 billion, a quarter million dollars per rider, worse traffic, less parking, first passenger in 2033" -- would it pass?
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Richard Feynman stood at a Cornell blackboard in 1964 and explained the problem every AI lab is fighting in 2026. The BBC filmed it. Almost nobody watches it.
The lecture is about why nature only answers in mathematics. Every team forcing language models to reason is hitting the wall he mapped 62 years ago.
He was 46. The Nobel Prize came 11 months later. The footage survived on film reels and now sits free on YouTube with fewer views than a keyboard unboxing.
Watch the blackboard section near the middle. He takes 1 of Kepler's laws and rebuilds it from nothing, with notation a 12-year-old can follow.
No slides. No jargon. 1 piece of chalk.
An ML engineer I know paused it 4 times and made his whole team watch it before standup.
You're 62 years late. The lecture is still free.
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News release: The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) Approves ERCOT's Batch Zero Process for Connecting Large Electricity Users While Protecting System Reliability for Texans. The new batch process framework will ensure large electricity users like data centers only connect in quantities and locations the Texas grid can reliably support. bit.ly/4xHbKM4
Learn more about ERCOT's new batch connection process: bit.ly/4ekfnjq
Zero issues w renewables in Texas.
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Clint Eastwood !!!! ❤️
Aos 96 anos, Clint Eastwood quebrou nossas ilusões sobre envelhecimento. Não ofereceu consolo sobre anos dourados cheios de serenidade. Pintou a verdade: "A luz machuca os olhos. Respirar pode ser um trabalho duro. O teu corpo já não está a cooperar. Cada passo requer estratégia."
Mas o verdadeiro peso da velhice não é físico. É emocional. Ao cruzar os anos 90, seu círculo social diminui. A maioria das pessoas que te conheceram quando eras jovem desapareceram. O telefone parou de tocar. O ritmo dos dias abranda. A pílula mais amarga não é a dor. É a ausência de alguém que queira te ouvir.
Eastwood explicou por que os idosos repetem histórias. Não é para me gabar. É para se ancorar a uma realidade onde eles eram ativos, amados e relevantes. "Você se encontra repetindo histórias, adicionando detalhes, não para convencer ninguém, mas para sentir que você ainda está conectado a algo", disse. "Você tenta transmitir coisas aos jovens, mesmo quando vê o tédio nos olhos deles".
Vivemos em uma cultura que trata a longevidade como um troféu, mas ignora a solidão que a acompanha. Louvamos o rápido e o brilhante. Não deixamos espaço para o ritmo lento dos idosos.
Clint Eastwood é um gigante do cinema, mas suas palavras falam por cada idoso de 90 anos. São bibliotecas vivas da nossa história. Quando os ouvimos, algo mágico acontece. Fechamos o fosso entre gerações. Rugas não são sinais de envelhecimento. São mapas de uma vida plenamente vivida. E é um privilégio ouvir sua viagem.
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Clint Eastwood never gave this speech. None of these speeches came from him. His Representives have debunked this quite a few times.
x.com/ManFromMalpaso…
Eastwood's View on aging are short and confirmed here.
tobykeith.com/news/toby-keit…
jacksonhealth.org/blog/clint-eas…
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France shutting down Nuclear reactors in the face of record heat waves.
Many argue we need "reliable" nuclear, seem to me #solar and renewables can handle the heat quite well. How would Nuclear handle an Australian summer?
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The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.
And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.
Here is what they are discovering:
Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.
Then they found the grocery stores.
Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.
The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.
They finally understand why we do not have trains.
We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.
Why would we need trains.
The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.
Welcome to America.
Everything is free, enormous, air conditioned, comes with chips, and has five grocery stores within a mile that will sell you any cut of any animal you have ever imagined.
Write that down. 🦋