China has captured anyone and everyone who is on board with clean tech. Just browse linkedin China is constantly glorified. Solar panel production. Even though they have vast amount of toxic lakes from manufacturing them.
Who, What, Where are these "lake(s)"?
Meanwhile China is not really running "ahead" that much. They are pretty much just on the line of normal improvement on a given technology. The starting points for Silicon Solar PV started in the US. US has just been too dumb, lazy, and greedy to progress it.
Same on EVs. Tesla and start-ups got it going. Then the moron MBAs of the US 3 stooges tried to copy the homework and got it wrong. Meanwhile China put in the work, study, did EVs right, and now lead the world.
Thing to truly understand is this == US is actively, intentionally, and measurably getting Dumb(er).
I know folks (rather than listening and understanding and seeking to improve that) want to rant with USA #1!, and MAGA, and Drill, Baby, Drill, and American Exceptionalism! like a bunch of howling baboons, but NONE of that produces anything other more stupid.
Ever see the movie "Idiocracy?" Turns out that was Prophecy more than Comedy.
Consider when the US Great Dumbing began with Reagan pulling Solar Thermal (water heating) off the White House? That was around the start of the Great Dumbing, and also shows up in the massive accumulation of Debt.
US has consistently been getting dumber since.
China has 1200 coal plants. We have maybe 200. Here in the states prices are rising fast. China not so much. Here in the states we politicized energy so much that we shut down plants without considering the ramifications. People will often say its expensive to keep the coal plants current. Well when you red tape a certain industry as much as we have. Then yes it will be expensive. The race to AI and robotics will require an abundance of one thing. Thats energy. China understand that.
US prices rising are from the US money going worth less on the way to worthless. It is the bankers method of covering the Debt. Currency Inflation is an intentional hidden tax on poor and middle people.
This is because US does not pay the bills, runs debt, has become too stupid build things, and wastes all US money on goofball military equipment and misadventures and interest on prior debt, all accumulated from the prior stupidity.
The biggest thing (and hinderance) that harms US is the ambient stupid.
I think china sees what's coming. It would also explan why they are rapidly deploying nuclear.
They are not. Rapidly deploying Nukes, I mean. They only had 5% (of generation) or less Nukes to start with. On the present path, they will likely stop at around 10%. Since Nukes have to run full time, they saturate their own market quickly and become not-profitable. US maxed at about 20%, with "Peak Nukes" at 104 Reactors. US is now down to 94 Reactors and the 10% that went away are not even missed.
Wind and solar is great until its not. You still need constant power especially in the arms race of AI and robotics.
There is not an Arms Race of AI. There is a massive Capitalist Con-Job going on. It is HYPE. For moron "Investors." Think Dot-com Bubble. Or 2008 Housing Bubble. Have you seen a movie called the Big Short? This is a big circle-jerk for lack of a better term. Maybe catch this clip of Big Short? The casino part will probably make sense?
But for Robotics? This part is pretty simple stuff. A typical US John Deere combine from the 1950s (I had a JD 45 and 55 ;P ) is more complex and energy intensive.
Most robotics run mostly on simple DC motors. Sometimes pneumatics and hydraulics. If you play with Tractors some -- you already understand all of this. If you want them to last longer, and have a budget, you can go with Brushless DC and some Variable Frequency AC Motors, but that is still simple.
Really at school we are building them from surplus DC brush motor automotive parts. Like wiper and window motors. I will put up some pictures of the toys we are building at school.
You maybe right. Coal is only running at 50% but that can change when needed. As im sure it does.
Coal use everywhere varies by season and load(s). US Coal use goes up in Winter and Summer. But we shut them off for entire months (repairs and rebuilds) in Spring and Fall. The Capacity Factor (% run-time) is based on yearly average run-time.
CHina also doesn't have any resistance or opposition to wind turbine placement or fields of solar. They probably do but what happens to that opposition?
US aint no poster child in this regard. Called Eminent Domain. Done with pipelines for the Drill, Baby, Drill folks. Corporations over Citizens. The American Way.
China thinks we are stupid b/c we shipped everything to them for production. Now were trying to get it back. Its interesting how we celebrate our reduction in emissions. To only just have them moved to another country
It was the emissions that got China replacing all the Old Coal Plants. Have you seen sample pictures of the Air Quality (or lack of) in China a decade or more ago? When you can actually "see" the Air, it is not a good thing. So they decided to clean things up.
