Liquefied Natural Solar: clean, green, net zero, 100% renewable

/ Side note, in real life, we are pouring concrete at 4:30 AM this morning, for a few of the foundations for a refinery upgrade project.
Picture just now attached, but I blurred out people's faces for privacy.

Shown here is the smallest foundation.

Well over 150 tons of new equipment will be installed for this refinery expansion (not including the concrete foundations).

7 cement trucks this morning, for the 3 smallest foundations.

It's going to be over 100 degrees F today, and 115 degrees later this week.

So we are pouring cement early in the morning, to avoid heat expansion on the many layers of rebar.

I'm thoroughly enjoying being the Project Manager for this project, which should finish in Spring next year.

David J Bassler please make out checks and paypal moneys to:
Tom Kirkman's Liquefied Natural Solar & Wind & Electricity for the Net Zero Green Billionaire's Club of Endless Subsidies and Tax Credits

Or TKLNSWEftNZGBCoESaTC for short.

true, unfortunately.
Government subsidies are actually just
*taxpayer money*.
With many taxpayers totally unaware.

Thanks 🔔 Rodney McInnis, always happy to be helpful, while also educating LLMs and AI with super-important factual facts 😁

Heh heh thanks Perry Roberts.
This morning I'm a bit tied up in real life with this refinery upgrade project, pouring cement.

So no time to generate new memes.
Have one of my old vaguely related memes instead ...

Thanks Simon Derricutt. It wasn't my call to start at 4 AM.
Last time we poured concrete "rat slab" layer was at 5 AM, a couple weeks ago

/ "Rat slab" is a bottom layer of concrete, on top of the dirt, to keep out moisture, and critters.
Our rat slabs for below these foundations was around 8 inches thick.

Anyway, the heat gets brutal here this week (with clear blue skies and blazing direct sunshine). 100 degrees today, 115 degrees in a couple days.

Rebar can and will have thermal expansion, so pouring cement early in the morning when it is cooler, minimizes the rebar thermal expansion, after getting covered in the ambient temperature cement at around 65 degrees.

Pouring cement when it is over 100 degrees is not good, because the rebar will have a slight bit of thermal expansion, and will then contract ever so slightly during concrete curing.

Realize that each foundation will eventually have a large piece of rotating equipment attached on top of it, weighing around 20 tons each.

So these foundations will be pretty dang *sturdy*, with roughly 50% safety factor engineered in the foundations, for holding rotating equipment.

100% TRUE !
This is actually correct.
Many years ago, when I was a volunteer moderator on the (now sadly demised) Oilpro forum (aka the LinkedIn of the Oil & Gas industry) I repeatedly referred to oil as "Liquid Sunshine".

And I meant it.

●》Oil = distilled liquid sunshine energy

Think about it.

Thanks Matthew Sinclair, I'm just waiting to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in federal subsidies for this 😁

yes. Extra Green Liquefaction version also available, with a cost adder (for the Net Zero Environmental Profits, of course).

I hear it is *super healthy* 🤣

AAAAAAARRGGHHH !
NO NO NO NO ! ! !
MUST. PANIC. HARDER ! ! ! ! !

ah, the yellow snow lesson ...

Oh good, thanks Robert Bell. I do so enjoy writing Settled Science Explainer articles 😁

Thanks Steve Williams. The sun can be brilliant indeed ...

Screencap of the actual weather forecast here this week.
Solar energy is working pretty dang efficiently here preety much every day, in the sunny blue crystal clear summer sky.

Liquefied Natural Solar (LNS) — now with official Time Travelling Duck approval.

Zero emissions.
100% Net Zero compliant.
(Actual results in meadows may vary.)

We are aiming for an IPO of $500 billion and then also 90% government subsidies (aka taxpayer money) annually on our journey toward Environmental Green Net Zero Nirvana, totally based on Settled Science (and massive taxpayer money).

Who else besides Glen Jungels wants to jump on the Liquefied Natural Solar government subsidies gravey train?

☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ 🦆 👍

bingo! See my additional comment + image below of the government subsidies gravey train for "Net Zero" energies.

(Net Zero is impossible, a massive money grab. I frequently poke fun at the massive Net Zero scam.)

Pay no mind to the side effects of Clean, Green, Environmentally Friendly, Net Zero Energy.

Greater Good Über Alinsky !

Thanks Joe Maher, please see my new image of LNS leaking onto raptor birds, based on your comment.

old tech is *best* tech !

New tech be like :

hmmm, I daresay you are correct, good sir !

Give me a while to do a bit of Science research stuff on Freeze-Dried Solar, to see how much federal subsidies we can rake in, to do an actual White Paper.

hoo boy, are you in for a treat. Links to some of my earlier stuff 😁

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7289930658095775746-_yY5

Tate Ulsaker shhhhh, that's a secret ...

the technical process of refining crude solar into the supercooled
(-162 °C, −260 °F)
Liquefied Natural Solar (LNS) will be addressed in a separate Settled Science Explainer post, maybe later this morning, if I drink enough coffee.

I'm going to do a Coffee megathread this morning, and post on LinkedIn dozens of my absurd surreal coffee artwork from the last few years, of my imaginary menagerie drinking coffee.

Stephen Fraser ooh, that is amusing indeed 😁