This is why I think China’s bet on renewable energy technology, manufacturing, and infrastructure is going to be a major geopolitical advantage for them in the coming years. You can’t conceivably cut China off from the sun, wind, and rain. Their major weakness is still going to be a naval blockade that could cut them off from access to raw materials. However, they’re also addressing that issue as well through various sustainability initiatives and military capacity.
The US however is playing the same old game of trying to control the world’s fossil fuel supply. However, they’ve done nothing to hedge against the inevitability that renewable energy will devalue fossil fuels almost entirely. They’re structurally incapable of doing anything else and it’s going to bite them in the ass.
Exactly, moving away from fossil fuel usage is key to having energy sovereignty. Incidentally, this won’t only be true for China because as Chinese alternative energy industries mature, this tech will be exported globally. We’re already seeing this with cheap solar panels becoming prevalent, and western media crying that they’re destroying fossil fuel profits. Soon, we’ll see China start exporting things like thorium reactors as well. The choke hold the US had on global energy is being broken.
This is why I think China’s bet on renewable energy technology, manufacturing, and infrastructure is going to be a major geopolitical advantage for them in the coming years. You can’t conceivably cut China off from the sun, wind, and rain. Their major weakness is still going to be a naval blockade that could cut them off from access to raw materials. However, they’re also addressing that issue as well through various sustainability initiatives and military capacity.
The US however is playing the same old game of trying to control the world’s fossil fuel supply. However, they’ve done nothing to hedge against the inevitability that renewable energy will devalue fossil fuels almost entirely. They’re structurally incapable of doing anything else and it’s going to bite them in the ass.
Exactly, moving away from fossil fuel usage is key to having energy sovereignty. Incidentally, this won’t only be true for China because as Chinese alternative energy industries mature, this tech will be exported globally. We’re already seeing this with cheap solar panels becoming prevalent, and western media crying that they’re destroying fossil fuel profits. Soon, we’ll see China start exporting things like thorium reactors as well. The choke hold the US had on global energy is being broken.
It’s because we’re run by abject morons