“There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.” —Mister Rogers

Hello to everyone, here are some more interesting things to check out in your light reading…

1- There are some articles circulating that one of the largest acquisitions in the energy industry is about to go down. Its not small and one could perceive that this is too big? Nah, couldn’t be. But it might. Ultimately this would bring a significant amount of electricity generation assets under one roof along with a NUMBER of other business types that will be absorbed and become one family. A lot of generations assets getting bought here. The question is, is it go big or go home move? Or is it a we want to change the world in which we live strategy? In the world we live in now you need money to do these types of things in the energy world. Just an interesting thing to think about that’s all. A lot of electricity generation assets, a lot of service companies, consumers they currently serve, all under one roof. Its just a really large acquisition and in this game, big folks can and do get stronger….perhaps.

2- HA this is wild to me. Ready for a new acronym? EGS stands for Enhanced Geothermal Systems. The DOE in Feb 2024 gave some monies to three projects that would boost the enhancement of this type of technology. What is the technology you might ask? EGS is defined as a human-made reservoir that creates permeability in hot rock to capture heat for energy. OK, whats permeability? Permeability is the state or quality of a material or membrane that causes it to allow liquids or gases to pass through it. So how do they get the heat out the ground? Drill a hole in the ground? or Fracing (yes no k in fracing)? Smells like a duck and quacks like a duck. OK, so your telling me that the DOE is funding geothermal projects to frac the heat out of the ground to generate electricity and fracing is looked down upon for Oil or Natural Gas on some other ‘type’ of dirt? Seems that way, see for yourself. Project FORGE the Frontier Observatory of Geothermal Energy project, ill drop the link here you can see the video. Looks like some kind of drilling to me out in Utah. All in the name of 100% clean electricity by 2035 US government goal. Oh, and those monies for those three projects? $60,000,000 says the internet.

3- This is completely random but the Consumer Electronics Show is in Las Vegas this week. Friends were telling me how huge it was and there’s so much stuff going on there. Reviewing some stuff it caught my eye about how much robotics is being developed. I should assume this but, well, you know. This topic can correlate with how much electricity does a robot need to charge itself to walk around with us and to continue to walk with us, just like a human? Makes me think about how the human anatomy and energy used to run that vs the electricity needed to power a robot. For how long? Can the robot match the human in running a 40 meter dash? A brief snapshot of where my brain goes with this type of stuff. Check out ‘Melody’ who has advanced body mobility. And open source?

Just FYI, There are links inside for some of these Info YO’s. If you see an underline you can go down the rabbit hole with me. Peace and Love to y’all

*ALL views and opinions are my own. All data/research comprised can simply be looked up by any search engine.