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IP right shouldn't even be a consideration when it comes to clean energy. What is super hypocritical is people who criticize China for environmental issues AND

by dheera 5y ago

IP right shouldn't even be a consideration when it comes to clean energy. What is super hypocritical is people who criticize China for environmental issues AND also want to restrict their access to clean energy tech. Countries other than the US: Please copy the heck out of every invention that is going to help us fix climate change and deploy it at scale ASAP. Don't listen to noisy US patent lawyers. American lawyers think "intellectual property" (i.e. fake property that Mother Nature doesn't give a damn about) is more important than childrens' lives. Thank you.

sudosysgen 5y ago
Oh it's even worse than just IP rights. The IP is held in large part by the Quebec provincial government through Université de Montréal and Hydro Québec. Hydro-Quebec had an EV program, but it was cancelled due to (according to the Hydro-québec engineers I know) political reasons - it would have been a bad look for the state to compete against car companies so overtly. So now both the motor tech (hub motors) and the battery tech (LiFePO4) took off in China. At least now Hydro-Quebec restarted their EV program, but for buses only.