Like it or not the absence of PUBLIC research, of OPEN standard, impede an economy of scale that China have. Simply. Like software must be FLOSS to keep evolvi

Like it or not the absence of PUBLIC research, of OPEN standard, impede an economy of scale that China have. Simply. Like software must be FLOSS to keep evolving, cars must be built on common components with open standards where the design, software and hw are OPEN and mostly came out of public research. This allow for a reasonable progress and so to achieve an economy of scale. Beside that: the Green New Deal can happen ONLY outside dense cities, again like it or not we can build single-family homes, sheds, small isolated buildings able to evolve, with enough space to evolve, able to be all-electric at consumption level compatible with our generation capacity, not towers, mid/high rise buildings in dense cities. Again this is a mega-plan that could be done in terms of raw materials thanks to remote work that allow enough people to leave the city to create enough mass outside to attract other non-remote workers, NOT the USA suburb style but the EU low density area style where people live and work intermixed without the need to make large trips for anything. Cities CAN'T evolve: a small example, most buildings have mailboxes typically all layered in a wall, very effective to get paper mails. Absolutely not effective for parcels. Well, back than parcels was rare and paper mail a common things with few per days for many families. Adapting to the online retail in dense cities is a nightmare, there is no room to leave parcels in condos. Such a simple change, such a problem. This is the city, efficient for the state of thing it's designed, able to change a little bit, but for more we need to rebuilt from scratch and costs are FAR HIGHER than being spread. The new "right density" for the economy of scale is living spread. The sole way to achieve this is a public plan. Otherwise after two "western civil wars" (world wars) on the verge of a third one we have committed suicide enough to being finally dead. Oh, yes, China have a devastating demographic problem, so it can't win in the long term but that's does not change our foreseeable future.