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> ...someone talking about "human flourishing" and "cheap energy" that wasn't actually just a shill for fossil fuels... But the vast majority of the solar pane
by roenxi 2y ago
> ...someone talking about "human flourishing" and "cheap energy" that wasn't actually just a shill for fossil fuels...
But the vast majority of the solar panels are coming from China, which is a great example of human flourishing and cheap energy, powered by fossil fuels. Anyone who cares about cheap power would have been disingenuous to promote solar. The Chinese strategy of building what is actually cheap has outperformed the rest of us by a substantial margin.
The Western strategy for the last few decades of blocking people from using cheap power just means that the next revolution is more likely to be made in China. I agree with Casey that the investment opportunities here are huge, I just wish they weren't mainly in China by policy. There is a good chance they're about to have a nuclear renaissance too given that most of the plants being built right are Chinese.