>solar I love the idea of being completely reliant on something where China controls 80% of the supply chain - https://www.iea.org/reports/solar-pv-global-supp

>solar I love the idea of being completely reliant on something where China controls 80% of the supply chain - https://www.iea.org/reports/solar-pv-global-supply-chains/executive-summary https://www.iea.org/reports/solar-pv-global-supply-chains/ex... Surely nothing could go wrong there, it's not like Russia pulled the same strategy and funded anti-nuclear activists in Germany to get them dependent on Russian natural gas. >wind I've talked to executives at energy companies who said they only built wind due to the massive subsidies. There's also major issues with what to do with the windmill husks once they are decommissioned and the fact they are a massive eye sore. If the US was serious they'd spin out some of the US Navy's reactor tech and turn all that technology into a profit center. They could even do a "bases for reactors" program where nations get electricity in return for allowing the US to operate the reactors on their land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyers-for-bases_deal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyers-for-bases_deal