[sf-lug] ARES, too

[Bobbie Sellers]

On 01/05/2017 03:59 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Mike Higashi (mhigashi at gmail.com):
>
>> On Jan 5, 2017 3:57 AM, "Rick Moen" <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ready for the description?  I hope you are dazzled by the simplicity
>>> and elegance the way I am.
>> OMG! That's fscking clever.
> Isn't it just?  It just bowled me over.
>
> If this is successful, some of these tracks can be built in any
> semi-serious set of hills near most of the cities in the western
> continental USA, because we may not have enough water, but we sure have
> empty land and hills.
>
> I can imagine one of these a short ways outside Denver, for example.
>
>> And it bypasses all the downsides to lithium, too boot (scarcity,
>> toxicity, thermal runaway).
> Also, although not completely safe (a reporter was told it was a bad
> idea when he asked to ride on the pilot project train), and you need a
> fence around it so nobody licks the third rail and cows don't lie down
> on the tracks, it's about as close to completely safe as high-density
> energy storage can get.

         The device does not have to be on a hillside.  Elevators could 
be used in
place of the train car and multi-story power stacks could be erected in
flatter neighborhoods,  They might look like larger taller grain silos.

     But these are interesting notes on an article I posted by accident 
to this
list.  Maybe I should post more of the stuff I send to TA/ml to this list as
well?  Or maybe some of the stuff I send to CUCUG as part of a Linux news
column?
     Has anyone else heard yet of BURG the new bootloader?
     Brandnew Unified bootloadeR from Grub:

     How about the Razor "Valerie" concept triple-screen laptop?

     Or the latest pixel madness the 10K screen.from the HDMI 2.1?
<http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/10k-video-object-based-sound-and-more-whats-new-in-hdmi-2-1/>

bliss "running fast and light" on PCLinuxOS-2016.03 GNU-Linux 
4.8.12-pclos1 x86_64
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