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Posted on 04/08/2024 3:00:08 AM PDT by CFW
The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act propelled forward President Joe Biden’s vision of a clean energy economy. As outlined in a 2023 guidebook, this remaking of the U.S. economy includes billions in funding for green tech manufacturing — everything from hydrogen production to batteries to solar panels.
The plan will not only create jobs and investments for Americans, according to the Biden administration, it will lower the nation’s dependence on China, which currently controls 80% of the global production in polysilicon and other components used in solar panels, 80% of wind-turbine components, and 89% of the refining to produce neodymium, a rare-earth element used in wind turbines.
Missing factors
To grow industrial activity at the scale Biden envisions, however, will require an enormous amount of electricity. China has been able to feed its green manufacturing economy by building out large amounts of coal capacity, while the U.S. has been shutting down a lot of its coal-fired capacity.
When the plans were laid out for this ramping up of U.S. green manufacturing, it doesn’t appear anyone considered that the U.S. grid would need a much larger supply of electricity. Where all that power would come from wasn’t factored into the plans. As a result, projects are already having trouble finding enough power, and the green economy has just gotten underway.
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Math is hard...
“No one considered...” Anyone with any sense was asking, “where is all of the electricity going to come from?”
Idiots!
MATH IS HARD
ACTUALLY THINKING AHEAD IS MUCH HARDER, APPARENTLY
Every one of them knew. They just don’t care about YOU!
And we can just give free extension cords to the less fortunate.
“What the hell happened? “
At the end of WWII we were terrified of Stalin’s army. He occupied much of Europe. The rest of Europe was not able to defend itself. We bribed up an alliance to fight the cold war. Everything was thrown into making Europe and Japan functional again. The Marshal plan. We threw open the US market, the only functional one to survive the war. We patrolled the seas so that everyone could play. For the first time in history any country could go anywhere, buy a raw good, bring it home and make it into a product. Those products came to America and they beat the price of our union made products. Even if they were more cheaply made, many people buy on price. This exported our jobs. Then, after the Soviet Union talked about nuking China Nixon saw an opportunity to finish the Soviet threat once and for all. China had, essentially slave labor. The West thought that they’d liberalize, but they stayed hard core communist.
On the good side, sort of, America is reshoring and friendshoring everything we exported. We’ll build out the industrial base again. The price may be a world that collapses into a bunch of sequestered empires but their wars will be nuclear. The Russian Ukraine war is a result of Russia trying to use an economic model from the nineteenth century rather than joining the globalized model of today. The war is the result of that order breaking down. The Order is gone. We’re trying to reestablish it but there are huge, huge problems in the way. Russia is doing this because a bunch of oligarchs who rape money from Russia take it out of Russia to keep it safe from the kleptocratic government. The average Russian is arguably as bad off as they were under Stalin. Governments like communism and Putinism survive by taking over their neighbors and raping away their wealth. China is trying to do this to avoid collapse. So is Russia. Had Russia gone into a market economy like the rest of the West instead of developing Denmark Disease this wouldn’t be happening.
Well, we pointed that out here, but obviously the experts in government are much smarter.
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“Animal Farm” was required reading when I was a kid. Now the opposite is what is taught. Somewhere America went off the rails, there is no logic to it since every socialist and communist country has been a disaster except China, which our industrial and government officials have enabled to become our biggest threat. American labor was just too expensive easier to ship stuff overseas for .50 an hour peasants to assemble and ship back.
The “no one’s” are the “best and brightest” at:
NBER.org
Or just as bad, Russia. But he just might be stupid enough to take it from the national reserve.
Well I’ll be. Funny you don’t hear about this utter failure. I’ve been my own mechanic for many years, not anymore, but even I can attest to the fact that if it contains a liquid, it will eventually leak unless maintained.
“You are missing the most important part of such a scheme: How much does it cost?”
It’d cheaper and a more logical option than what the lefties are proposing. I would take it a step further and have those desalination facilities run on nuclear power. Like subs, but on a much larger scale.
It’s??? Wake up EQ. No FReeping during Happy Hour.
It’d??? Wake up EQ. No FReeping during Happy Hour.
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There’s a small lunatic fringe that seems to running everything
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Yes, but their (R)N(C) enabler/defender(s) aren’t making it any easier to root-out
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