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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
China is the world leader in CO2 production.
The US has had a diverse energy portfolio since the 1930s.
Large scale wind power generation may not have been invented here but this is where it was perfected.
Nasa inverted solar panels.
I don't know if the US invented geothermal power generation but we brought it up to grid scale.
Same with hydroelectric.
Nuclear power originated here.
Most of the country was built on and around cheap fossil fuel power because that's all there was at the time. Most of China was built long after these things were invented and perfected. So yeah they are going to see a little more wide spread use.
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China's hybrid government may allow them advantages we'll never see here.
With their pursuit of a market basket full of energy technologies,they may be in a perfect position to shed carbon combustion faster than we.
We can blow a $trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan but we can't spend a $trillion on technology that'll get us out of that part of the world.That would just be some left-wing attack on personal freedom,limiting consumer choice,stifling profits,royalties, some U.N.-style bureaucratic conspiracy to steal the American dream,command and control nightmare.