> China has, so far this year, exported more solar panels to the Philippines than to any other country except the Netherlands, a key import hub for much of northwest Europe.
Europe generally does well on solar, now and historically. And wind too. Though you may well consider that "climate change doomerism".
There are segments of their politicians, industry and populations who seem unaware that the EU imports basically all its oil and gas and so sabotage this progress at every step.
My point was more that that many European politicians are torn between wanting to fight climate change and wanting to spite China -- and that, when all's said and done, they often come down on the "spite China" side, which makes for weird and funny situations.
It's like they get mad that China's doing the green energy thing better than anybody else.
Even before Apple existed Steve Jobs was stealing wages from Steve Wozniak who did the actual work.
We have evidence he was still doing this decades later when he colluded to depress wages with Eric Schmidt at Google when he felt Apple employees were being offered too much in salary.
I'm happy to assume he was stealing money from people at every point in between because he was, quite famously, an asshole.
He seems to be regressing, he said this in January:
> The rational fear of those who dislike economic inequality is that the rich will convert their economic power into political power: that they’ll tilt elections, or pay bribes for pardons, or buy up the news media to promote their views.
> I used to be able to claim that tech billionaires didn't actually do this — that they just wanted to refine their gadgets. But unfortunately in the current administration we've seen all three.
Now he's claiming he's trained all these billionaires and they are a blessing to the world, not avaricious sociopaths.
> despite Tailwind being incredibly customisable I can instantly tell when a site is using Tailwind.
People used to say this a lot about Bootstrap.
Someone set up a bootstrap or not? guessing game and the real surprise was that you not only failed to spot some bootstrap sites you also guessed a lot of non-bootstrap sites were bootstrap because they all used the same modern UX paradigms.
And I don't really believe them. Are they claiming to identify every site using tailwind-compatible utility classes, and within that set, they all look similar?
I think what they're actually experiencing is that they can instantly tell a default Tailwind site with reused components, which is not much of a claim at all.
Yes, that's the de facto style guide of American news sources these days. If China does something innovative, then it's dangerous, irresponsible, scammy, and/or fueled by IP theft.
(2021) and so somewhat outdated by the fast pace of change.
Battery section makes no mention of sodium ion, for example.
The same org has published more recently on the same topic.
Their "Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2025" suggested that demand has risen but supply has risen faster leading to lower prices "especially for battery minerals".
They've moved onto other worries. We will have enough minerals but "we" here means China 95% of the time.
Presumably China saw reports like this and said "we should locate and secure more minerals" rather than "this is all hopeless let's just burn oil which will never run out".
And in a Cost/Risk/Benefit computation, cars remain incommensurately invaluable. Because one's Quality of Life without them would simply be destroyed, comparatively. The moving "castle" (legal term in the USA) can be more important than the house in crucial regards.
The point attempted at post 48501189 remains unintelligible. That cars imply risks and externalities does not clarify it.
"closer to the same" except one side has consistently promoted the building and sale of EVs in America.
If you were feeling generous you could credit then with the entire existence of modern EVs given their support of the nascent industry for decades in California.
But sure, let's focus on the mote in Democrat eyes and ignore the insanity across the aisle. That's what got us into this situation, so why stop now.
Europe generally does well on solar, now and historically. And wind too. Though you may well consider that "climate change doomerism".
There are segments of their politicians, industry and populations who seem unaware that the EU imports basically all its oil and gas and so sabotage this progress at every step.
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