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102 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 15 Dec \ on: Energy Predictions 2025 - Casey Handmer econ
I both love this stuff and think it’s mostly pie-in-the-sky silliness.
On the self-sovereignty note, small wind generators are apparently improving. They’ll potentially be better for some situations.
That physical sand-heat battery is neat. There are lots of different options for physical batteries. The most common is using excess energy to pump water into an elevated reservoir, which then spins a turbine as it comes down during energy deficits.
On all fronts the USA is way behind China.
The USA has lost the ability to build physical infrastructure because its entire industrial base has been run down and neglected over decades of neoliberal financialisation and outsourcing to offshore providers.
The USA has lacked a cohesive and strategic industrial and economic development plan.
Free markets don't plan for a nation state- only a government can do this but the neoliberal ideology has failed to plan and build the plant, skills and infrastructure required for the US maintain global hegemony.
China spent four decades investing strategically in developing its stranglehold over rare earth refining...and multiple other strategic supply chains especially related to energy production and efficiency.
Now the USA cannot fight a war of any scale for at least a decade because China hold a monopoly over the supply of the rare earths supply chains needed to build modern war materiel.
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