Albert Bates
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Sustainable Aviation Fuel from, say, seaweed or bamboo, must top 26 million tons by 2050 to keep us all flying or give aircraft carriers meaning. China is doubling production annually. If Doolittle were alive today, he might well be working on the SAF problem cooldesign.substack.com/p/seaweed-bi...
Seaweed Biochar Airplanes
What does the Doolittle Raid on Japan have in common with the Battle of Britain? — Aviation fuel.
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February 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Sustainable Aviation Fuel from, say, seaweed or bamboo, must top 26 million tons by 2050 to keep us all flying or give aircraft carriers meaning. China is doubling production annually. If Doolittle were alive today, he might well be working on the SAF problem cooldesign.substack.com/p/seaweed-bi...
CalFire has been pioneering the use of mobile biochar kilns to mitigate fire risk for the coming season—not only treating the disease, but going after the cause peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/02/livi...
Living with Fire
Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.
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February 1, 2026 at 4:31 PM
CalFire has been pioneering the use of mobile biochar kilns to mitigate fire risk for the coming season—not only treating the disease, but going after the cause peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/02/livi...
As January winds down, my 8-week foray into A.I.-assisted Batman comic books parodying the Trumpian Broligarchy comes to a close. It was no sillier than Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, but at this point, reality is playing catch-up. What happens next? peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/01/verd...
Verdict.exe
Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.
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January 25, 2026 at 1:17 PM
As January winds down, my 8-week foray into A.I.-assisted Batman comic books parodying the Trumpian Broligarchy comes to a close. It was no sillier than Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, but at this point, reality is playing catch-up. What happens next? peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/01/verd...
Post the inevitable T.A.C.O. Greenland withdrawal, Denmark and Sweden can buy back their revalued bonds and laugh all the way to the bank. www.patreon.com/posts/elon-m...
Elon Musk does Davos | Albert Bates
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January 22, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Post the inevitable T.A.C.O. Greenland withdrawal, Denmark and Sweden can buy back their revalued bonds and laugh all the way to the bank. www.patreon.com/posts/elon-m...
This concludes my Jack Smith Batman parody. Just in time for the real Jack Smith to testify before Congressional Oversight this Thursday. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Verdict.exe
The Return of Jack Smith Episode Eight
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January 20, 2026 at 10:09 PM
This concludes my Jack Smith Batman parody. Just in time for the real Jack Smith to testify before Congressional Oversight this Thursday. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
In the penultimate episode of our superhero Jack Smith comic book, we go after the mass social media manipulation engineered by our broligarch overlords peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...
The Trial of the Algorithm
Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.
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January 18, 2026 at 2:37 PM
In the penultimate episode of our superhero Jack Smith comic book, we go after the mass social media manipulation engineered by our broligarch overlords peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...
Your right hemisphere provides grasp of wholes, spatial patterns & non‑verbal experience. The left side gives you precise language, rule‑based analysis, planning, & refining & communicating ideas. Trump’s stroke in early 2025 was on the left side of his brain www.patreon.com/posts/148289...
The Trial of the Algorithm | Albert Bates
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January 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Your right hemisphere provides grasp of wholes, spatial patterns & non‑verbal experience. The left side gives you precise language, rule‑based analysis, planning, & refining & communicating ideas. Trump’s stroke in early 2025 was on the left side of his brain www.patreon.com/posts/148289...
Was the January 6 riot caused by one or more persons, or was it an algorithm? How do you put an algorithm on trial? Jack Smith would like to know. cooldesign.substack.com/p/the-trial-...
The Trial of the Algorithm
The Return of Jack Smith Episode Seven
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January 13, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Was the January 6 riot caused by one or more persons, or was it an algorithm? How do you put an algorithm on trial? Jack Smith would like to know. cooldesign.substack.com/p/the-trial-...
There is an antidote to Steven Miller's Flexible Realism. It is called the Rule of Law. This week in The Great Change peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/01/ridd...
Riddler and the Broligarchs
Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.
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January 11, 2026 at 2:12 PM
There is an antidote to Steven Miller's Flexible Realism. It is called the Rule of Law. This week in The Great Change peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/01/ridd...
How is a 1915 silent movie like the United States today? I explore that this week on Patreon
Riddler and the Broligarchs | Albert Bates
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January 8, 2026 at 7:37 PM
How is a 1915 silent movie like the United States today? I explore that this week on Patreon
Sending this love letter to Silicon Valley. You bought us the best government money can buy. How could we not be grateful? cooldesign.medium.com/riddler-and-...
Riddler and the Broligarchs
The Return of Jack Smith: Episode Six
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January 7, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Sending this love letter to Silicon Valley. You bought us the best government money can buy. How could we not be grateful? cooldesign.medium.com/riddler-and-...
If you calculate the climate cost of developing the Venezuelan oil reserve, any notion of regime change is literally a suicide mission. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Riddler and the Broligarchs
The Return of Jack Smith: Episode Six
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January 6, 2026 at 8:45 PM
If you calculate the climate cost of developing the Venezuelan oil reserve, any notion of regime change is literally a suicide mission. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Apologies for the tease but I’ll have another installment of my Batman parody coming out tomorrow…
January 6, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Apologies for the tease but I’ll have another installment of my Batman parody coming out tomorrow…
Sometimes, you can detect a scent in the wind, like an approaching storm. Some days you can smell Sardinia in Palestine or the Pacific Ocean in Colorado.
That is the scent I am getting lately from the last days of the Brologarchs. www.patreon.com/posts/147194...
That is the scent I am getting lately from the last days of the Brologarchs. www.patreon.com/posts/147194...
Gaming the Algo | Albert Bates
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January 2, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Sometimes, you can detect a scent in the wind, like an approaching storm. Some days you can smell Sardinia in Palestine or the Pacific Ocean in Colorado.
That is the scent I am getting lately from the last days of the Brologarchs. www.patreon.com/posts/147194...
That is the scent I am getting lately from the last days of the Brologarchs. www.patreon.com/posts/147194...
Jack Smith, climate hero? Strange times require stranger solutions open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
December 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Jack Smith, climate hero? Strange times require stranger solutions open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Everyone complains about social media A.I. algorithms, but nobody does anything. Apart from B.F. Skinner and Edward Bernays, that is. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Gaming the Algo
The Return of Jack Smith: Episode Five
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December 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Everyone complains about social media A.I. algorithms, but nobody does anything. Apart from B.F. Skinner and Edward Bernays, that is. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Ever so slowly, the worm turns. The mass formation psychosis moves from HRC and Sleepy Joe to the tech bro billionaires, who find it impossible to acknowledge that they got basic numbers describing reality wrong. Can you feel it in the air? peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/12/deat...
Death to Broligarchs
Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.
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December 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Ever so slowly, the worm turns. The mass formation psychosis moves from HRC and Sleepy Joe to the tech bro billionaires, who find it impossible to acknowledge that they got basic numbers describing reality wrong. Can you feel it in the air? peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/12/deat...
December 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Whether you buy their billions of memecoins at an obscene price, they know they can buy a preemptory pardon with Saudi kushnercrypto. It is all upside, right? open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Death to Broligarchs
Whether you buy their billions of memecoins at an obscene price, you can buy a preemptory pardon now with crypto
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December 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Whether you buy their billions of memecoins at an obscene price, they know they can buy a preemptory pardon with Saudi kushnercrypto. It is all upside, right? open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Allison Gill of Mueller, She Wrote commented: “Had Bari Weiss just ran the story, it would have been seen by a couple million people tops. The bootleg has now gone viral, and may end up being the most-watched 60 Minutes segment ever.” #CECOT #60minutes #Barigate @hcrichardson.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Allison Gill of Mueller, She Wrote commented: “Had Bari Weiss just ran the story, it would have been seen by a couple million people tops. The bootleg has now gone viral, and may end up being the most-watched 60 Minutes segment ever.” #CECOT #60minutes #Barigate @hcrichardson.bsky.social
This is just one company. It will remove 1 million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere annually by 2027. It requires no taxpayer or energy subsidies — it shows profits every month. A climate solution that ticks more than half of the UN Sustainable Development Goals www.linkedin.com/posts/exomad...
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🚀🌍 December Updates: Scaling Carbon Removal at Speed
As we close the year, here’s a quick snapshot of what’s happening at Exomad Green:
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Expansion completed in November, increasing capac...
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December 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is just one company. It will remove 1 million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere annually by 2027. It requires no taxpayer or energy subsidies — it shows profits every month. A climate solution that ticks more than half of the UN Sustainable Development Goals www.linkedin.com/posts/exomad...
Smith is like the Energizer bunny, Wiley Coyote, or Dudley Do-Right. He never gives up. He is the quixotic nemesis. Just when you thought Aileen Cannon had Smith boxed in by an injunction, here he was, taking 8 hours of questions and demonstrating he had the goods www.patreon.com/posts/bustin...
Busting the Kleptocrats | Albert Bates
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December 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Smith is like the Energizer bunny, Wiley Coyote, or Dudley Do-Right. He never gives up. He is the quixotic nemesis. Just when you thought Aileen Cannon had Smith boxed in by an injunction, here he was, taking 8 hours of questions and demonstrating he had the goods www.patreon.com/posts/bustin...
Immoluments, bribes, Pay to Play, untraceable crypto for pardons, golf resorts, bag men, ballrooms… For Mitch, it started with tobacco, then guns, but really it came to full flower on climate… making that a partisan issue open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Busting the Kleptocrats
The Return of Jack Smith, Episode Three
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December 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Immoluments, bribes, Pay to Play, untraceable crypto for pardons, golf resorts, bag men, ballrooms… For Mitch, it started with tobacco, then guns, but really it came to full flower on climate… making that a partisan issue open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Intuitive foresight persists as a genomic trait despite outbreeding through religion and dogma. Today, shamans & seers are most at risk from smartphones. My post to The Great Change @boilingfrogsblog.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/12/bond...
December 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Intuitive foresight persists as a genomic trait despite outbreeding through religion and dogma. Today, shamans & seers are most at risk from smartphones. My post to The Great Change @boilingfrogsblog.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/12/bond...
Going through the National Security Strategy 2025, I detect JD Vance's fingerprints, and behind that, Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin. US policy is now transactional rather than confrontational. Confronted, it will always back down. Offered money, it will always take it. patreon.com/posts/bond-v...
Bond Villains Capture Artificial Intelligence | Albert Bates
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December 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Going through the National Security Strategy 2025, I detect JD Vance's fingerprints, and behind that, Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin. US policy is now transactional rather than confrontational. Confronted, it will always back down. Offered money, it will always take it. patreon.com/posts/bond-v...