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If that were completely true China would be doing it now. We wouldn't see countries shutting down nuclear programs and replacing them with coal. But yes, I agr
by surge 5y ago
If that were completely true China would be doing it now. We wouldn't see countries shutting down nuclear programs and replacing them with coal.
But yes, I agree that if a tech is freely available there is opportunity for countries to build out with what's the best available then legacy tech, the same way China has 4G/5G everywhere because its all new infrastructure, they never bothered putting up a 3G tower.
- pengaru 5y agoUsing transport of information as exemplary strikes me as such extreme cherry-picking as to be disingenuous. It's relatively trivial to move data wirelessly. Physical infrastructure like housing, roads, bridges, are where the real challenges lie. Cement production alone is a huge co2 problem. Even if all the vehicles of the future are EVs, there's a huge amount of resources put into manufacturing, delivering, sheltering, and operating those per-capita. Despite its vast HSR network, China has still exceeded US car sales every year since 2009 [0]. [0] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/global-car-sales-by-key-markets-2005-2020 https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/global-car-sa...