I will not be doing the server maintenance that I was planning on doing this weekend, because of poor planning on my part. Can’t find high-percent isopropyl alcohol in the stores in my area, so I’m going to have to wait for the 99% bottle from Amazon (Jeff Bezos, International Man of Monopoly) to arrive. From where I’m sitting I can reach out and grab a bottle of 70% that I bought several years ago, but I don’t really want that 30% water near sensitive electronic components.

It’s 2020, and as bad as things have been this year, it is threatening to get worse. COVID Pandemic Since the beginning of this pandemic, I’ve been of the opinion that people are simultaneously over-blowing and underestimating the problems this pandemic is causing. The over-blowing part is that people are overestimating how bad the disease actually is. It is no black plague or Spanish Flu, but it is also not the common cold or flu.

Because I don’t want these to get lost, I’ve made a copy of John Titor’s posts and put it on IPFS: Part 1 Part 2 Just because I’ve mirrored this does not mean that I believe that John Titor is/was a time traveler. It is a piece of internet history that I don’t want to get disappeared because it talks about civil war in the USA.

I completed getting the fallen branches off the fence line so they are no longer hanging over the property line into the neighbor’s domain. I also unloaded the a full truck bed full of firewood onto the back of my property. Right now, it’s just thrown in a big pile on the ground, but with the amount of work remaining, it will just have to sit there until I can get around to it.

This previous weekend, a milestone was reached with hyperloop development: the first passengers traveled down the vacuum tube, reaching a speed on 107 mph. I find hyperloop to be exciting in part because it was lifted straight out of science fiction. I’m particularly interested because travel times to the coasts will have a reduction of at least 50% if all it does is eliminate layovers at airports. It also substitutes electricity for jet fuel, which can be provided by renewable or renewable methane and doesn’t require complex synthesis and refining steps.

I saw this thread at the IPFS forum today, talking about creating a search index for IPFS sites that I will be looking into, because I think it is a good idea and I think my ipfs scanner could have a crawler and indexer added to it without too much effort.

Today, to both see if it could be done and to make dealing with all my source code easier, I setup a set of git repositories that automatically publish to IPFS when a “git push origin” is run. First, I setup the file structure to keep things organized. ./publish ./public/ ./public/ipfs-auto-repo.git ./public/ipfs-scanner.git # et cetera To initialize the repo being published, I did the following. git init cd public/ipfs-auto-repo.git git init --bare vim hooks/post-update This was then entered into post-update:

All the data on the dying hard drive has been transferred to another drive and power and data lines have been disconnected. The drive hasn’t been physically removed from the system yet because of the effort to remove the drive cage from the chassis. Five other data and power lines will need to be disconnected to extract the failing drive. I do intend to use it in another computer as the boot drive until it finally dies, but will not keep any important data on the drive as everything will be lost when the drive fails.

The scanner may be causing problems with my IPFS node. I’ve had to forcibly restart the IPFS daemon on my server several times in the past couple of days since I started running the IPFS scanner continuously. It may be coincidence, because during this time I also started writing this blog somewhat regularly, but the scanner hits the node pretty hard. I am going to try a couple of things over the next few days to see if I can figure out what is happening.

Continuing on the theme I started in my curtailment post, this is a detailed look at a renewable chemical plant centered around a Sabatier reactor, which converts CO2 and hydrogen into methane. The idea here is a floating plant fed with power from wind turbines and solar panels that produce methane that can be used to displace fossil methane from natural gas. Plant Overview The plant consists of four main units, the electrolysis unit that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen, a distillation unit that extracts pure water from seawater to feed to the electrolysis unit, an liquid amine-based direct air capture unit to extract CO2 from the air, and a Sabatier reactor that turns hydrogen and carbon dioxide into methane.