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Posted on 01/27/2026 8:35:11 AM PST by WhiteHatBobby0701
For more than a decade, the United States has been guided by a story about energy that presents wind power as one of the few responsible paths forward. The idea has been repeated so often that it eventually stopped sounding like a policy proposal and began to sound like a moral duty.
Wind energy was described as the answer to climate change, the way to rebuild American manufacturing, and even a strategy to strengthen national security. Once that view became popular in national politics, questioning it was treated as a refusal to accept science rather than an effort to understand the actual costs and tradeoffs.
The problem is that this story never came from a neutral scientific study. It came from a mix of international institutions, corporate lobbying efforts, and foreign governments that realized they could benefit from it. China benefited more than anyone else. What American leaders described as a clean-energy transition became, in practice, a significant transfer of industrial power to a competing nation that understood the economic opportunities far earlier than the United States did.
China’s rise in the renewable-energy market was a direct result of Western governments focusing more on climate politics than on common sense. While American and European leaders focused on emissions pledges and public messaging, China built the factories and rare-earth mining operations needed to dominate the global wind-turbine market.
Today, Chinese companies control more than 70 percent of the world’s wind-turbine supply chain and more than 80 percent of the rare-earth materials needed for turbine generators and other green-energy technologies. That dominance was built through state subsidies, centralized financing, and government direction that enabled Chinese producers to undercut American and European manufacturers, leaving most unable to compete.
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Then Hodges (the Dem Governor who orchestrated expansion of government with the LOOTtery) worked to sell it to Dominion Energy. Now Virginia runs our energy policy in our state, and we are being sold wind and solar because Virginia rules are in place because that state runs our energy policy.
China is taking us over thanks to their control of energy. Obamunism strikes.
Said another way, it is not so much that the Chicoms sold their windmills etc. to us as it was the US gummit spending our money and/or piling on the debt all to enrich themselves on the side.
I'm sure China benefited - but I'll bet a bunch of liberal democrats had their hands greased in the process.
Driving into Atlantic City you see them.
I have extended family in the northeast about a mile from the Atlantic coast. They get a lot more wind than I do and asked me to help them research if doing pico wind turbines (decentralized wind power) would be feasible. No matter how much I looked at the numbers I couldn’t make the math work. Even where they live the average wind speed doesn’t produce enough power to pay for their wind turbine(s) and inverter cost and installation. Much less adding battery storage. I’m not even talking about them being able to go off-grid. I’m talking about just to lower some of their power bills, and even that goal still wouldn’t work.
There is no free lunch with energy. Unless you get a government subsidy.
The US environmental zealots focused on wind power as one of the few green energy schemes that is feasibly scalable to commercial grade power generation
We developed the turbine technology in partnership with European turbine makers and then either off shored the manufacturing to China for cost savings or sold the bankrupt or non performing wind turbine assets to the Chinese for pennies on the dollar to the Chinese to to turn them into the dominant green energy power suppliers to the rest of the world
Just like we did with the solar panel business
Our politicians are either stupid or complicit ( or more to the point - stupidly complicit) in the outsourcing of what they planned and mandated to be be Americas strategic energy generation future
China Joe's green economy plan was never green and it was intentionally manipulated to benefit Chinas economy not Americas economy
I was told that these crappy windmills where made in Canada. I guess the idiots were to afraid to tell me they were made in Red China.
GE played a big role here. I remember them designing the Wind power generators. They got the Bush and Clinton administrations to lower standards for wind farms. They passed all sorts of laws to promote them. Then they had them made in China. And soon the CEO of GE was complaining on CNBC that China was stealing all their designs and undercutting them.
GE undercut the US regulators and China undercut GE. But there is nothing clean about the energy. China is filled with toxic fields rivers and ponds. To process rare earths, Solar panels or have them shipped to the US from the middle of China, there is a lot of coal and oil being burned and toxic waste being dumped.
Rare earths are not rare. The refined products are rare. And they’re rare because the ore and the chemicals required to separate the rare earths from the ore are massive and toxic.
China’s hold on rare earths exists because they are willing to refine something that is relatively common and dump the waste all over their country. Most Chinese people do not live long. Some do. But most do not. That is the secret to Chinese success. A toxic cesspool that stops people from getting too old. It all works in the CCPs favor. A cheap workforce that pollutes and kills its people before they become a burden.
Actually, my decentralized solar is very feasible. And the tax credits just artificially inflated the prices I paid up front so that the govt could pretend that they're nice and give some of the extra cost back to me. (Even then you had to do an analysis to make sure your tax liability was enough to get the tax credit.) In other words, the tax subsidy helped the supplier, not the consumer. Like just about everything else the government "helps" us with.
But it requires you to love freedom enough to do tons of homework and budget planning to make sure it's feasible for your situation, your climate, your energy consumption habits, etc. Basically, are you willing to do as much analysis as the bureaucrats do when they tweak the policies to enrich themselves at our expense? If the answer is No, then you're better off putting extra into investments and hoping the returns more than compensate the energy price inflation.
Yeah, let’s blame China and not the CEOs and politicians who lead the stampede of outsourcing all manufacturing to China.
If politicians and Wall Street wanted chocolate candy… China would be flooding the market with snickers bars and buying chocolate plantations in the tropics.
This was the Ivy CEO Wall Street hedge fund class and their politician employees.
This article is one of the best and most accurate summaries of the Green Energy movement I have read
It should be required reading
The just bribed American dems. Nothing more or less. Every governor who pushed these scams needs to be investigated. Too bad our FBI is devoted to chasing down 1 criminal at a time.
This is like a diabetic blaming McDonald’s and Coca Cola.
I don’t blame China for selling all they could of what we demanded.
Abbot, Perry, and T Boone Pickens were tricked into those windmills by the wiley Chinese! That governor in Georgia speaking Chinese about trade, Wall Street hedge funds… wide eyed babes in woods.
The yellow peril tricked them all!
I AM NOT defending China, BUT we only have ourselves to blame as to why a lot of manufacturing has been off shored.
Any corporation making almost ANY product sold in the USA is subject to legal problems forever. You can smoke cigarettes for 50 years, come down with cancer and then sue the maker even though you have known for 40 years that they cause cancer.
A corporation would have to be nuts to produce toxic products here in the USA. Even the sawmills I buy from have to send us letters annually to inform us that wood dust is hazardous to breath. Gosh who would have thought that?
My company also buys Calcium Chloride ice melter(Pelladow). Dow Chemical still makes it in Luddington, MI. I believe they are the only company still making it in the USA. All other Calcium Chloride Ice melter is typically made in China. Not so much because it is cheaper. It is because thirty years later their employees can not bring a lawsuit against them.
We need TORT reform. The Lawyers that support the Democratic party and GOPe do not want it.
T Boone Pickens knew that IF he could talk governments into installing these wind turbines the grid would need the Natural Gas power generation as back ups for when the wind was not blowing just right.
He just happened to have a corner on the natural gas.
“”””A corporation would have to be nuts to produce toxic products here in the USA. Even the sawmills I buy from have to send us letters annually to inform us that wood dust is hazardous to breath. Gosh who would have thought that?”””
I just bought a calculator that had a sheet of paper in it warning not to eat the batteries. The warning was 14 bullet points long just to tell you how toxic eating the batteries was. Crazy that something like that needs to be added to the packing.
I also seen a sidewalk sweeper that had a sticker on it that said not to use it on the roof as it could pull you off the roof because it was motorized.
We need to have inspectors that hold foreign firms to the same standards as our companies. We should have tariffs for any company that does not allow our inspectors.
Does that mean they don’t love us long time?
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