The U.S. Is Forfeiting the Clean-Energy Race to China
https://www.wsj.com/economy/global/the-u-s-is-forfeiting-the-clean-energy-race-to-china-e822ab57
The U.S. Is Forfeiting the Clean-Energy Race to China
https://www.wsj.com/economy/global/the-u-s-is-forfeiting-the-clean-energy-race-to-china-e822ab57
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We have been trailing for years, but now we have surrendered.
I am pretty cynical about green energy in a lot of ways lately, not because it is bad but because it has abjectly failed across the board in controlling energy prices… which continue to skyrocket with no end in sight.
An empty, 1.3-million-square-foot warehouse north of Denver was supposed to be an emblem of cutting-edge manufacturing. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis heralded a California company’s plan to build a battery factory on-site as a push to “power the future.”
But an already weakening growth outlook for electric vehicles deteriorated as President Trump’s tax bill wound its way through Congress. Amprius Technologies didn’t wait for the legislation to pass and pulled out of Colorado earlier this year.
The future of climate change will not be decided by the rich but by the poor who don’t want to watch their children starve.
The US didn’t forfeit; it sabotaged itself under the current leadership.
NRC isnt making things easy and neither is the public
As a Canadian accelerationist hopeful for the near-term dissolution of the US (#calexit) I love to see them overspending on data centres while they are far behind on energy intensive industries like robotics and solar. Even if they wanted to build out the things they actually need, there’s no electricity! Consumers will get absolutely shafted.
Incredible to see such a rapid pace of deindustrialization. MAGAs are generational idiots.
It’s like two smart kids being in a form of competition in high school. Both are super smart, and pushing each other to excel. They are now graduating, neck and neck academically, competing to get into the best colleges.
When it comes time to pick a college, one kid says “I’m going to Harvard!” And the other kid says “you know what? Learning to be a cashier at Walmart only takes a few days, so I’m applying there!!! I’ll show YOU what I think of your fancy, snobby degrees!”
IMO, this is a huge mistake. We’ve really gone backwards in creating the infrastructure for the next 50-100 years here in the US by rolling back greener projects and not moving towards nuclear power and continuing to support oil, it’s a narrow way of looking for profits today and thinking we’ll pivot again down the road. China is very well positioned.
China won in many ways, and republicans made it an easy victory for them.
Along with the space race and probably most other tech races.
News Flash: In USA we only worship the mighty dollar. Clean energy? Only if we see some dollar signs!!!
Get use to headlines like this. The US will be forfeiting a lot to China over the next 5-10 years.
why wouldnt the US just copy it? or steal if cant copy?
To a lesser extent, Canada also seems to be on a similar path
All you have to do it play trump. Make fun of him for giving up being number one. Claim he is bending the knee and making the US not as strong as China. That is very hard for the Republicants to twist.
Not really news. They’re pumping money into it and we’re not. They’re inevitably going to win.
The US gave up on a clean energy future in the 70s when activists effectively killed nuke power via fearmongering and misinformation.
It was a massive strategic blunder by Republicans not to turn the US into a global green energy manufacturing monopoly back in the 90s.
Forfeiting? We’re paying billions to not race at all in the first place.
The US has ceded its seat at the table. The rest of the world now knows they can just move forward without us. It used to be that any global endeavor would need the US. Now that’s not true. All so Trump could get some compliments and world leaders to whine about tariffs.
Take ‘clean’ out of the headline.
People don’t seem to get this, it’s not about clean or dirty for China, it’s simply about maximising energy production.
They’ve just realized and are profiting from the obvious conclusion that renewables once scaled up beat fossil both in cost and total energy potential.