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Aerospace engineer from GT Aerospace Systems Design Lab. Mentored by the proteges of Lillian Smith (Mentor of MLK) Inventor first stealth helicopter Cofounder [Howard] Hughes Skunk Works (Boeing Phantom Works) This is about our work, not my face.
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This is my first labor day as a citizen of a communist country. You missed that? The definition of communism is state ownership of business and when #Trump 's Sovereign (King) Fund bought shares in Intel, US gov got part ownership - Intel is now state owned. Happy Labor Day Comrades.
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If you're looking for effective, nonviolent methods to defeat the fascists, this handbook can help. darkskyinnovation.com/articles/civ... It's a compilation of methods that helped DC citizens turn armed national guard into expensive grounds keepers. Like this - bsky.app/profile/iwil...
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Ending with exterminating the people of #Gaza to clear ground of a billionaire's beach resort with AI servants and the looming global extinction. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This series of posts lays out the connections, with articles from @theguardian.com of Russian interference in science to Ghislaine Maxewell and #Epstein to RFK Jr and #TraitorTrump and COVID deaths. It began with billionaire Robert Maxwell turning scientific publishing into a for profit business.
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Someone in Trumpland had enough morality left to leak this. #Trump views us all as trash people and the trash in Gaza had to be removed to make his Big Beautiful Beach resort on their graves. With Big Oil's tanker and all run by AI. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Who are you calling on? The coup is over POTUS has fallen SCOTUS has fallen DOJ has been captured Congress hangs by a thread. The only one coming to save us IS US. Guide to nonviolent actions which stopped the military takeover in DC darkskyinnovation.com/articles/civ... bsky.app/profile/ludi...
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"The $71.9 billion in foreign aid that the government spent in fiscal 2023 works out to 1.2% of that yearโs total federal outlays, which were more than $6.1 trillion." That money went to reducing fertility TO REDUCE THE MIGRATION EGO #MUSK is so afraid of. So DOGE cut it to create what he fears.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
For anyone believing that, This is a map of world fertility rates. Blue and green is stable or dropping. There are no countries in the Americas with exploding fertility rates. Rates in Africa are rising. The purple nation is Niger with a population of 27m, less than California, with little impact
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Many people accuse me of negativity, and I deserve it. "The coup's over, POTUS has fallen." "Sorry, doesn't work." If you don't know what's wrong it can't be fixed. My entire life has been about making things better. This is supposed to have my full attention. www.gofundme.com/f/SEBanca
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I'm working with Dave Min CA-47. Been in office a whole 6 months. Harvard Law, SEC fraud investigator, accepts no PAC money
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Fascism belongs in Gotham Asylum. Mental illness is defined as "a pattern of behaviors which harm self or others." The billionaires who back this shit are just as criminally, mentally ill as Jeffrey Dahmer. The GOP blames it on the mentally ill - because it's THEM. bsky.app/profile/ludi...
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If what's already happened hasn't been enough to get you up and marching, this news should Building a beach resort in #Gaza on the graves of the dead with "US trusteeship." Big Oil's tanker on the beach and all run by AI, so no "trash people." bsky.app/profile/ludi...
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I've also been backing some young angry dems and B Sanders. They've been getting the same data, but it took them a couple of years to accept this actually happening in America. Barbara Boxer knew the guys I reported to, fact checked us and follows now.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Believe it or not, there are NO whistleblower laws protecting any of this - because they broke no laws!! Until recently, like #Trump not exercising the ICC arrest warrant on Putin when he set foot on US soil. Even Marcos turned Duterte over. Our articles darkskyinnovation.com/articles/
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The first thing today's Guardian entry page focused on was world leaders abandoning #climate commitments. Followed by this article. www.theguardian.com/environment/... US Report www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... I support them in two ways, money and investigative input.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
This ten your old piece was one of the missing links. Ghislaine Maxwell's dad, Robert, created for profit scientific publishing and censoring science ever since. Robert was a KGB operative. bsky.app/profile/ludi...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
I've been one of their sources for a couple of years. A LOT of work went into exposing this. bsky.app/profile/ludi...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
I've been living it. Can't quite decide if I feel more like Odysseus, Diogenes or Pheidippides, but years of work is finally getting these atrocities in public view. bsky.app/profile/ludi...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Every century or so America dumps both parties and makes new ones. It's time for The Constitution Party for the 99 percenters The other side will have to be creative, Fascists R US ain't gonna get many votes. bsky.app/profile/ludi...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
I think building a beach resort on the graves of the dead in #Gaza with "US trusteeship" is worse. I only follow foreign news of the US now. bsky.app/profile/ludi...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
I think building a beach resort on the graves of the dead in #Gaza with "US trusteeship" is worse. I only follow foreign news of the US now. bsky.app/profile/ludi...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Never Newsom - until he stops working with them.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Criminally insane - literally. The definition of mental illness is "a pattern of behavior(s) which harms self or others." The billionaires ASPD/Sociopathy harms millions to make their money. It meets the criteria for mental illness. They should all be in Gotham Asylum with these guys
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
I think it's time you changed your focus bsky.app/profile/ludi... bsky.app/profile/ludi...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Please investigate these bsky.app/profile/ludi... bsky.app/profile/ludi... I've been providing investigation results to the Security Editor at the Guardian for a year and it's paying off, but he's too timid. Looking for someone with real spine.
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I think you need to change focus to this bsky.app/profile/ludi...
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Yeah, he's a dictator, there was a coup, we're fighting it - old news. Just in bsky.app/profile/ludi...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't have time for a movie to tell me what I already know right now. I'm focused on this bsky.app/profile/ludi...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
We know who broke it They won't fix it So we have to do it ourselves or die. We can assess blame after the fire's out. Just in bsky.app/profile/ludi...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
As horrific as that is, it pales to this bsky.app/profile/ludi...
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After years of work, the wall of secrecy is breaking. It's all about Big Oil driving extinction. bsky.app/profile/ludi...
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Just in bsky.app/profile/ludi...
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BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
The fascists attacking world democracy are NOT partisan. Their goal is to have us destroy ourselves from the inside. They don't care about Tory vs Labor or GOP vs Dem, so long as we destroy each other they're happy.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
The Guardian's opening subscription request #Climate! First they came of Lagos Then they came for Gaza We are all trash, they have AI They are coming for us next. An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. Thanks @dansabbagh.bsky.social! Please read darkskyinnovation.com/articles/one...
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Someone in Trumpland had enough morality left to leak this. #Trump views us all as trash people and the trash in Gaza had to be removed to make his Big Beautiful Beach resort on their graves. With Big Oil's tanker and all run by AI. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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And the opening donation request from the Guardian agrees, ITโS ABOUT CLIMATE!! This entire attempt to topple World Democracy is to create the extinction. First they came for Lagos Then they came for Gaza They are coming for all of us
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
I assure you, there is a bottom. We just can't imagine it yet. Let's work to make sure we never see it.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Let's tally up. How many technologies have we released on the unsuspecting public with inadequate testing? Mining- toxicity Synthetic fertilizer- ' ' Internet- crime, disruption of voting Social media- ' ' Crypto- drugs and money laundering Day trading- investing -> gambling What could worng?
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Sustainable means lasting many human lifetimes. We use a target of 500 years. True sustainability would need to be measured in millennia. Nuclear done properly is clean. Anything involving mining and extraction can never renewable. I assume you represent Russian uranium mining?
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't know enough about UK politics to make a cogent comment. But, assuming #Putin 's goal is to shatter the Western Democracies and is not partisan, it would make a hell of a lot of sense to sacrifice B Johnson, recruit a shining liberal knight and quietly slip him in from labor. War mongering
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Please also include the number of new uranium mining leases required to provide the fissionable materials, along with the environmental remediation cost to restore the mining sites. Show us all that and your plan is FANTASTIC! Nuclear is the best solution for some locales, but not global.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Can you please post your timeline to hit 50% conversion of total world energy consumption to nuclear? Please post your plans for how Indonesia, Nigeria and Philippines can convert 50% of their total consumption to nuclear and how fast? FYI, they are the 5th, 6th and 13th largest by population.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
They thought they'd be fighting us with guns and ICE and they would outnumber us 10 to 1. Sorry stupids. We're running them out with nonviolent citizens, calmly blocking them with cameras and law. We now outnumber them 1000 to 1. Saturation attacks fail without resources. #Trump 's a LOOSER!๐
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh yeah!!! If you're not sure what you can do to get that done, this nonviolent guide to effective civil resistance might help darkskyinnovation.com/articles/civ... Every action is to divert us from investigating all of this fascist regime's illegal acts. It's called a saturation attack.
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We had assumed his sense of self preservation would kick in and he'd resign or his hypnotized cultists would crack and impeach him before he got sick or died but... I am not shedding a single tear, so long as we win. Keep up the pressure! He deserves no rest and he can always exercise A25.
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Not holding my breath. Walter Reed has some of the best docs on earth and strokes are not always debilitating or fatal. Our group, and others, have been working for years to expose as his and Vlad's plans to the light of day, blow those plans to bits and STRESS them both until one disintegrates.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
A strike is dramatic, but boycotts are lasting, strategic and a lot more impact. They also allows companies to change sides, one by one. That's trickle/gush strategy where as 1 or 2 leave, more follow and more follow. It takes time for them to change and we can't maintain a strike for months.
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3 Pervasive boycotts against every single company who donates, advertises or supports any candidate from any party who funds fascist news outlets or donates to fascist coup candidates can go on for months. It saves our side money. It grows over time. It's viral We don't lose pay etc.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
2 To be effective a general strike needs to go nonstop until the other side caves and that could be weeks. I don't think we've got the backing for that yet.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
1 A strike isn't general unless we get at least 25% of the citizens involved. That would be 50% of dems and I don't think we can come close to that yet. A fizzled general strike makes us look weak.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey. There are some of us discussing a general strike right now. As much as I would LOVE that, widespread boycotts are a strategically better option for several reasons. I don't want to get in an argument with allies who share our goals, so I thought I'd start the discussion here.
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I don't follow you, but I do watch you. 9.4k followers Following 62k Only 36 posts that say nothing You follow and like politics... There's a pattern Feel free to DM if you are not who you appear to be.
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Most know it's a game. Some think it's a handbook. I asked a colleague if Orwell's Animal Farm was a warning or an instruction manual? She answered "Both. For normal people it's the first. For sociopaths it's the second." She's in charge of this project bsky.app/profile/aubr...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Every Disney Princess, J R R Tolkien fantasy and game of thrones episode entrenches our dream of being king of everyone else. J Campbell's "Hero With a Thousand Faces" is more like the "Parental Con Job With a Thousand Faces of Conquer the World and Feed us in Our Old Age."
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Adam Morton is an editor at the Guardian. Sometimes they listen. I've requested they go through their archives and create a decision, by decision article timeline of how these toxic, inbred wanna noble families have been laying the foundation for this coup for decades.
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Will Ghislane Maxwell suffice? While doing some other digging I ran across this gem. Russia -> Maxwell Sr -> corrupting science -> RFK Jr -> Maxwell Jr -> #Epstein -> #Trump -> the death of CDC. bsky.app/profile/ludi...
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There actually used to be internal corporate investigators because they cut waste and fraud raising profits. I was trained as one a part of executive training. I made a pretty good career using Hatchet Man skills, until the Citizens United Vs FEC ruling erased all the rules.
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Ohhhh.... thank you thank you thank you. They enforce literal broken windows on the poor, but try to fix up the "broken windows" of Wall St, Madison Ave and corruption and it's a whole different story. If they really believe it, lead us by cleaning up their own houses first! Then maybe we follow
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
It's much more structural feudalism and the New Feudal Lords of America were all white. They sometimes allow minorities marrying into the family, but if they don't toe the line and kiss the ring - they're gone. Look at Harry and Meghan. The Windsors need fresh blood but they refused to kiss ass.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
The constitution is 250 years old, and while it was one of the greatest documents in history when it was written, it's aging. It was written in a time where the goal was conquering America. The right to conquer was implied. Until that's changed, neither will America.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Let's not forget how the Agriculture Dept biased farm loans and subsidies to drive black family farmers bankrupt so Big Ag could buy up their land. Generational wealth is anathema to a sustainable democracy, and while we added legal solutions to discourage it It's never stated in the constitution.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Justice delayed is justice denied Politics is the art of delaying a decision until it is no longer relevant. Wait long enough and all the witnesses, and criminals, will be dead.
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Yours, Bob Tipton Founder Dark Sky Innovative Solutions, LLC Co-Founder Hughes Skunk Works, now Boeing Phantom Works Shared recipient Service to America award for designing the rescue systems that protect our embassy staff who negotiate our peace. You don't know us, but we've saved thousands
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
I know it's unprofessional to include a political activism article like our 21st Century Civil Disobedience manual, but since our adversaries politicized the science required to save our biosphere from extinction, we responded in kind. I greatly appreciate your taking the time to hear me out.
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During the years since I made this breakthrough, our team has others, all on the drawing-boards, because the fossil fuel influence The Guardian and whistleblowers reported is real and has blocked us at every turn. This our full article list - darkskyinnovation.com/articles/
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
The purpose of free scientific inquiry and research is to expand human knowledge and to provide new discoveries so applied engineering-scientists like me and my team the tools to solve societies toughest problems. Because our work products are hardware not articles, it's difficult to get seen.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
I tried to get this paper published almost four years ago and the editor of Elsevier Sustainable Energy Journal wrote back saying that our work on cutting cost of sustainable energy generation by 99% was "not relevant to our journal." Here's a copy - darkskyinnovation.com/articles/max...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
It seems practical applications of efforts to design new systems to reverse climate change are blocked by the fossil fuel industry. There aren't even conferences. I am a high level complex systems architect and cofounder of the [Howard] Hughes Skunk Works, now part of Boeing Phantom Works.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Hi Dani, Technically, I am not a scientist, I'm an engineer. Our work cannot be published due to the following www.theguardian.com/science/2017... www.theguardian.com/environment/... Robert Maxwell was Ghislane Maxwell's father. Read the article and you'll understand our situation.
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This is a good "what not to do" followed by "what to do" post bsky.app/profile/did:...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Seriously, this may be total coincidence, but since I started putting our team's articles on the company server three weeks ago, my internet service keeps grinding to glacial slowness. I thought it was the town, but if I keep swapping VPNs, it's fine. Maybe someone doesn't like this stuff?
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That's kind of because you're backing an armed insurrection to capture the US Capital and stage a coup sort of is "the answer to everything." This is the key post in the timeline that ties RFK Jr's insane CDC to Maxwell and Epstein. bsky.app/profile/ludi... It's long, but worth the time.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
No, but I remember when she said "Donald Trump is horse which Putin rides" clearly. This isn't the first post, but it explains why the entire thread is critical. bsky.app/profile/ludi... Maxwell Sr's corruption of scientific publishing directly led to RFK Jr. and climate denial ON ALL sides.
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Chicago resistance, these are some of the nonviolent, highly effective methods DC residents used to chase them out. darkskyinnovation.com/articles/civ... Learn them before they arrive and keep them out before they spread through Chicago. DC did it, so can you. bsky.app/profile/iwil...
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THEY AREN'T TARIFFS! Teflon Don #Trump saw the SANCTIONS from Canada, UK and EU coming, beat them to it, renamed them tariffs and IMPOSED THEM ON US. Of course the economy's tanking THEY'RE SANCTIONS and that's what sanctions do.
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I think this post is the biggest key in the chain, but it needed to be chronological. RFK Jr.'s gutting CDC is the result of Robert Maxwell's corrupting scientific publishing to be industry's mouthpiece. This is when it began. The series of posts connects the timeline to #TrumpsTreason
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
No offense, but you're looking in the wrong direction. Please take a look at this chain of articles. It connects Russia to Maxwell Sr to #Trump to #Epstein / Ghislaine to alt science to RFK/CDC to fossil fuels to extinction to the coup. An outline which should be a book. bsky.app/profile/ludi...
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My heart's bleeding - maybe a microgram. His mom said he was one of us until he was bought. Hope he didn't kill anyone else. Urgent bsky.app/profile/ludi... It's a chain of articles from the Guardian that connects the dots of the coup. "It's the #Extinction stupid" - twisted Bill Clinton
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It was a global effort and we got sucked in too. I think you may want to dig on this bsky.app/profile/ludi...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
This chain of articles traces this back to Ghislaine Maxwell's father, Robert, making Scientific Publishing for PROFIT. It's an outline which should be a book, but the key threads are there. bsky.app/profile/ludi...
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Urgent. This one is for you and J Watts. Years of work is coming to a head. Please don't drop the ball now. bsky.app/profile/ludi...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Can we focus on the bigger war sir. bsky.app/profile/ludi...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
The Guardian opened today's edition with what you need. It's all there if you follow the threads. bsky.app/profile/ludi...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
You missed the threads that tie all that together. Ghislaine's dad -> Russia -> for Profit Scientific Publishing -> alt science -> RFK -> #Epstein / Maxwell -> coup -> #climate_crisis. Over ten years, the Guardian exposed the pieces you need. Please do your job and dig! bsky.app/profile/ludi...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Are you 100% sure you can shelter for millions of years? www.theguardian.com/environment/... I wouldn't take that bet dudes. If the worst case estimates are right, you can't finish before DEAD line. You are sinking in the same boat we are and, after this shit, we have no reason to rescue you!
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
The fossil fuel tyrants thing their bunkers will save them BUT YOU DON'T know that because your corruption of scientific publishing blocked funding of research which may have proven it may take 1 million years for the earth to recover.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
The only thing about the #climate crisis which is actually valid is, it's going to kill every man, woman, child, pet and animal on earth at some time in the next 100 or so years, if we do not take effective measures to prevent it.
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This is an artist's concept of an ocean going, atmospheric CO2 extraction system, scalable to 2GW, using eSAF tech to produce unlimited, synthetic version of current fuels at less than 50% of current cost to the consumer - with global ocean volume for supply. youtu.be/AL2BIEEXIYw
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It seems, despite the entire fossil fuel industry's efforts to prevent it, our team found the first, hopefully of many, solution that can put fossil fuels out of business on PRICE and reverse #climate change in our lifetimes. Since they learned of us they are PANICKING!! But we're still here!
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
This article walks you through the math of how Maxwell Sr's corrupted scientific publishing industry misleads you with energy pricing. It shows that your 3.5 mW solar panel system is really 3.5 mW HOURS / YEAR and only 400 watts!! 10% of a gas generator. darkskyinnovation.com/articles/one...
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
This may be total coincidence, but even as I'm writing this, I have to keep changing VPNs to access our own articles to get the URLs. This has been going on here for the past three weeks and I have to change VPNs every hour or so.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
For specific, legalistic clarity to avoid misinterpretation I am focusing solely on sustainable energy GENERATION, not conservation. Conservation works, but no amount of REDUCTION can ELIMINATE fossil fuels. Our existing wind, solar tech et. al. do work, but are INADEQUATE to stop the extinction.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
But even the reporters and editors at the Guardian have been misled by "ignore the man behind the curtain" because EVERY ONE of these articles is focused on raising the alarm that the threat is real while not investigating - IS THE SCIENCE BEHIND OUR SOLUTIONS VALID? It is NOT.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
I refuse to water to down the danger we all face from #climate collapse by using the euphemism "tipping point," and use more correct terms such as singularity, bifurcation and Catastrophic Cascade Failure. Cascade failures cause history's greatest disasters from the Titanic to the Hindenburg.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Part of my training was national defense, crisis response which combined with my liberal social justice upbringing allowed me to write the 21st Century Civil Resistance Manual. Another part was preventing Catastrophic Cascade Failures darkskyinnovation.com/articles/cli... or "tipping points."
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
On one occasion our work shamed Lockheed so badly, that the US defense department accused us of falsifying the entire project results because they were physically impossible. The VP of LSW came, saw the device covered in dirt from a mission and wrote "it does what they say it does."
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
Hughes Skunk Works (posthumously named after Howard Hughes Jr) is similar to Lockheed Skunk Works, only so secret I wasn't aware it existed or I'd helped found it until 30 years after I left McDonnell Douglas. It never officially existed and is now part of Boeing Phantom Works.
BT (@luditetechy.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess being the child of the chair of the sociology department, associate dean of students and stepson of the college VP had some benefits, because I was able to complete my MS from what became the Georgia Tech Aerospace Systems Design Lab and helped found [Howard] Hughes Skunk Works.