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  • China is stockpiling coal. Because it has an advantage of storability and is non-volatile. They also keep opening coal plants.

    If we assume China will be producing our goods for the next 30 years then its safe to say coal will be in demand. If we do ban their imports because we decided to actually do something about climate change, besides importing people from low carbon areas and pushing urban sprawl via regressive zoning laws, then our entire economy will collapse due to rising interest rates.















  • One of the things that we’ve been very mindful of … as the world gets more hostile, we’re worried about impacts to critical infrastructure like electrical guide grids, pipelines, these sorts of things. A lot of them are controlled by systems that were never meant to be connected to the Internet. Nowadays, as people are looking to optimize efficiency, and connect to cloud services and connect sensors to networks, they’re becoming more exposed to threat actors from around the world. Normally, your electrical grid would only be threatened by people that are actually in the country and nearby, but as soon as you connect it to the internet, you’re pretty much opening a lot of this up to people from anywhere.

    This is why you need to use a Scada system like Ignition, which can replicate the database to a cloud or IT environment, and any non-administrators should be using that. Remote access for admins should be done via a PAM software running in a web browser, and optimally only accessible from a locked down Chromebook style device that cant run executables.