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• Commented on Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy
  There’s a more detailed write up of the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps here: http://bicyclecorps.blogspot.com/ which has daily ride reports with maps and then a modern rider trying to follow the same route in 2010....
• Commented on Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
  Yep. And the goal of the US Army Corps of Engineers is to turn the Mississippi River into a straight line for navigation from Lock and Dam No. 1 in St. Paul all the way to New Orleans. Have to...
• Commented on Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
  Correction: there are falls on the Mississippi in Minneapolis-St.Paul, which is part of why those cities are there (junction of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, northernmost point on the river navigable with a steamboat in the 19th century). And to...
• Commented on Happy Halloween!
  The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is also in Colorado, as well as a branch office of the USPTO. https://www.nrel.gov/about/ If I were a deity who needed power to run a set of computers, I’d like to have access to renewable...
• Commented on Happy Halloween!
  And now I want to see the Patent Office’s occult group (dealing with computer software patent applications) - they’re in with the Security Group I’d suppose...
• Commented on Happy Halloween!
  I’m surprised that the Franconia station is that new, as it seems to be built in that late 1960s-early 1970s style as many other of the Metro stations. I’m generally through there at least a few times a week. Hmm,...
• Commented on Houston: what are the long-term consequences?
  I know a professor in Houston who got flooded out in 2015. He still hadn't had his house lifted and repaired before this hit....
• Commented on Help Wanted at the Climate Policy Sausage Factory
  I worked out the numbers on the artificial photosynthesis patents ; maximum yield of sugar would be on the order of half a metric ton for every single person on the planet if we could pull all the excess carbon...
• Commented on Help Wanted at the Climate Policy Sausage Factory
  The first patent on artificial photosynthesis (CO2 + H2O -> sugar without using any plants) was issued in 1968. There's also patents out there on electrochemical reduction (which you would obviously run off solar/wind/nuclear etc in order to be carbon-negative),...
• Commented on Rejection Letter
  And proof positive that there is nobody at the wheel willing to do anything about catastrophe/climate change in 10 years -- look at the number of published patents/patent applications in photochemical or photoelectrochemical or electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide versus...