I've been invited to register today and get 2 more events FREE! ...in Texas.

[NNadir]

Although it's not actually the industry in which I work, I am, because of my private interests in solutions to the environmental crisis in which we live, on the mailing lists of a number of news feeds related to energy engineering.

I got a great offer to attend the Distributed Energy Conference and also, at no extra cost, Experience Power and the HydrogeNext conferences.

It's a sale!

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Ends tonight at 12 pm!

Register to attend the Distributed Energy Conference, October 18-21, 2021, in San Antonio, Texas, and attend Experience POWER and HydrogeNext at no additional cost with code LABORDAY!

To be honest, I wasn't planning on attending, but I decided to respond with a note about this conference to be held, in San Antonio, Texas.

My response:

Dear Conference Organizing Committee:

Although it is true that I did not actually plan to attend the conference in any case, it is doubly true now, since I will not attend any events in the State of Texas given the contempt shown by that State's government for human rights, specifically voting rights and women's rights. I fully intend to limit to a minimum any and all commercial activities involving that State, given my love for Democracy and human equality.

Regards,

...

[msongs]

1. better learn the eyes of texas are upon you...all the live long day nt

[jimfields33]

2. San Antonio is a pretty liberal area

Had you not decided before Tuesday that you didn’t want to attend, I’d probably try to get you to go. I don’t think blue cities should be punished. I understand the sentiment though about Texas as a whole.

[NNadir]

3. I've previously been to San Antonio for conferences. I liked the city but...

...it's in Texas, an apartheid state with a white guy's talibanesque approach to women.

I wouldn't have been convinced to go, not that I was planning to go anyway. It's a personal, not a professional, interest. I'm glad there's no one to try to make me go.

In any case, I oppose distributed energy, am tired of all the continuous and useless hydrogen hype, and while I'm sure that I can learn what I need to know about power engineering elsewhere.

(My son recently informed me he's going to seek his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering and I follow my son's work closely.)