Comment by rayiner
2 months ago
> Meanwhile China is adding power capacity at a wartime pace—coal, gas, nuclear, everything—while America struggles to get a single transmission line permitted.
I have been saying for years that upgrading civilization requires more power output, not conservation and windmills. If we had been investing in nuclear since the 1960s we would be ready for the needs of next generation technologies and we could do it without burning fossil fuels.
We’re ready for them with current technology, the problem is regulatory.
Who matches China's current scale and cost of producing solar panels? No-one is ready to compete.
We were talking about nuclear energy but…
Nobody competes with China on lots of things because of government subsidies both direct and indirect (like devaluing currency). We could do those too if we had to.
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Some progress on that front:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/climate/trump-offshore-wi...
> A federal judge on Monday struck down President Trump’s halt on approvals of all wind power projects on federal lands and waters, dealing a significant legal setback to the administration’s campaign against wind farms.