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security should be built on domestic strength, specifically by securing our power grid and reducing global oil dependence. We have the technology, tools, solar,

security should be built on domestic strength, specifically by securing our power grid and reducing global oil dependence. We have the technology, tools, solar, wind, advanced battery storage, nuclear power to make this happen. We have the wrong people in place to make this happen.

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toomuchtodo 7mo ago
> “The main message is that we’re going to get the energy transition forced on us in a very painful way that’s going to happen very quickly. This forcing function will occur regardless of who is in power. The world (China, mostly) produces enough EVs, solar, and batteries to make it happen, it’s just a matter of economics and time. The people in charge today are temporary, the investments made in clean tech today will last decades. https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-explorer/ https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-e... (China is ~1/3 of global manufacturing capacity)
- Projectiboga 7mo ago
  The unraveling of the PetroDollar is happening. Japan jut agreed to pay Yuan for Iranian oil now. They were already using Yuan for Russian Oil.
  - solstice 7mo ago
    I'd like some credible source for the Japan claim, please. Per https://www.jluggage.com/blog/fact-check/japan-buying-oil-in-yuan/ https://www.jluggage.com/blog/fact-check/japan-buying-oil-in... it is a rumour.
  - leereeves 7mo ago
    > The unraveling of the PetroDollar is happening. Suppose that is true. Would it matter? Oil is rarely traded in Euros but the Euro is still a strong currency.
    - ben_w 7mo ago
      > Suppose that is true. Would it matter? Matter for what? IIRC, the USD is over-valued by about 10% due to being a world reserve currency. End USD dollar dominance, and you get most of Trump's baseline tariffs forever, except on top of rather than instead of whatever extra tariffs Washington puts on imports and you can't undo them. My first thought was to wonder about the inflationary impact of all the USD outside the USA ending up back in the USA, but then I remembered how macroeconomics has way too many feedback loops (and first-order surprises because of those feedback loops) for me to guess the full impact, especially given this isn't my field.
- Dusseldorf 7mo ago
  > the investments made in clean tech today will last decades. As, I suspect, will the damage to the civil service and the scientific community.
Larrikin 7mo ago
Progress in this field will be slower than science. Funerals will help but too many people make money by holding us back.
seanmcdirmid 6mo ago
You sound like a Chinese. America should be doing the same, except we elected Trump who decided doubling down on oil and Middle East problems was a better way to move forward to 1950.

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toomuchtodo 7mo ago

> “The main message is that we’re going to get the energy transition forced on us in a very painful way that’s going to happen very quickly. This forcing function will occur regardless of who is in power. The world (China, mostly) produces enough EVs, solar, and batteries to make it happen, it’s just a matter of economics and time. The people in charge today are temporary, the investments made in clean tech today will last decades. https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-explorer/ https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-e... (China is ~1/3 of global manufacturing capacity)

Projectiboga 7mo ago
The unraveling of the PetroDollar is happening. Japan jut agreed to pay Yuan for Iranian oil now. They were already using Yuan for Russian Oil.
- solstice 7mo ago
  I'd like some credible source for the Japan claim, please. Per https://www.jluggage.com/blog/fact-check/japan-buying-oil-in-yuan/ https://www.jluggage.com/blog/fact-check/japan-buying-oil-in... it is a rumour.
- leereeves 7mo ago
  > The unraveling of the PetroDollar is happening. Suppose that is true. Would it matter? Oil is rarely traded in Euros but the Euro is still a strong currency.
  - ben_w 7mo ago
    > Suppose that is true. Would it matter? Matter for what? IIRC, the USD is over-valued by about 10% due to being a world reserve currency. End USD dollar dominance, and you get most of Trump's baseline tariffs forever, except on top of rather than instead of whatever extra tariffs Washington puts on imports and you can't undo them. My first thought was to wonder about the inflationary impact of all the USD outside the USA ending up back in the USA, but then I remembered how macroeconomics has way too many feedback loops (and first-order surprises because of those feedback loops) for me to guess the full impact, especially given this isn't my field.
Dusseldorf 7mo ago
> the investments made in clean tech today will last decades. As, I suspect, will the damage to the civil service and the scientific community.

Larrikin 7mo ago

Progress in this field will be slower than science. Funerals will help but too many people make money by holding us back.

seanmcdirmid 6mo ago

You sound like a Chinese. America should be doing the same, except we elected Trump who decided doubling down on oil and Middle East problems was a better way to move forward to 1950.