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Meanwhile, China has been hard focused on renewables and lowering their need for oil.
Good plan Lindsey...if it was 2006 not 2026.
These old fucks are still thinking like it's 1986.
I feel like the background and skin tone in the meme could be swapped. 🤔
They have a big focus on nuclear power as well, they have 59 operating nuclear power plants with over 28 under construction. Nuclear is just as important as renewables at this current time in our technological evolution. We need better energy storage technology for pure renewable to work well.
It would also be sick if nuclear fusion becomes a reality and makes all other power generation obsolete, generally.
That will never happen, without scarcity they can't make obscene profits year over year so Fusion will be patented and shelved.
Fusion is not like the movies where you make a tiny star that just generates free excess power forever after.
It requires fuel. It's repeated tiny explosions which get harnessed to usually heat water and run a turbine. That fuel needs to be created and transported.
There's like a dozen companies building out fusion reactors right now in the US, some claiming they'll be operational as soon as 2028. THEY want to be the ones selling that energy. Capitalism isn't stopping that desire to capture a market even if it threatens another market
In a capitalist country sure, maybe some other country's will take advantage.
You don't think America will attack another country to protect it's economic intrests?
No, they're not doing this for rational economic interest. They're bombing iran to cover up the elstein files. They bombed Iraq to get bush re-elected after tech bubble and 9/11.
You give them way too much credit assuming they make rational economic decisions, they start wars for ego and panicking to cover up crimes. It's a shit show in every way.
I was making a hypothetical about future military intervanetions to protect economic intersts, not the pedophile in cheifs current distraction campaign Operation Epstein Folly
Yes and when in history has the US rationally started a war for economic motives?? Not Iran, not Iraq, not Vietnam, not Korea, heck not even WW2 and WW1. So maybe the Spanish American war? But i dont think we ever made money in Cuba Phillipines or Puerto Rico either.
War is not economically rational, and the US leaders aren't rational when they start wars either.
With the military industrial complex this country has? War is hugely profitable, sure it might bankrupt the Federal government but the defense contractors make a killing every time. The people have to pay for it, the wealthy get richer. Seems like business as usual in the US.
Yes, agreed the MIC makes a huge profit off war but the country ends up poorer for it.
I don't doubt it, I just doubt they'd go after china. They both know they have too much to lose from that