Electrostate vs. Petrostate: Is China set to surpass the US, powering AI?
Why is China's easily winning, against the USA MAGA fossil fueled race to power AI? Well, it might have something to do with the [I]"but, but, but...solar and wind won't power AI!"[/I] energy pundits.
While the MAGA "drill-baby-drill" fossil fuel zealots (Tiny 12 and Elvis 2008, befuddled as to why the USA Is world's biggest cumulative CO2/ GHG emitter in history), love to rave and rant about and say [I]"...but, but, but, solar and wind are intermittent"[/I], they fail to gasp that intermittency works just fine for China, as it ramps up, old school power / LDES battery storage with [B]67 GW of pumped-hydro[/B] and another proposed 100 GW by 2030. [URL]https://www.energyconnects.com/news/utilities/2026/april/china-s-state-grid-pledges-45-billion-for-pumped-hydro-in-2026/[/URL]
Yes, while lithium-ion, sodium-ion, rust and solid-state batteries grab most of the energy storage headlines, the old school, old-fashion pumped-hydro, often overlooked by fossil fuel pundits, is quietly killing the tired old intermittency argument. A China quietly declares [I]"...what intermittency problem?"[/I] and strips all the "problems with renewables", one-by-one.
Pumped-hydro, once predominately used extensively by nuclear, as its battery storage for excess power, are being built, at a silent but unprecedented rate in China, as part of their 14th and 15th 5-year plans, bridging the so called solar and wind intermittency and LDES gaps.
[B]P.S.:[/B] [I]BTW, for the fossil fuel zealots, here's a reminder of U.S. cumulative emissions: [b]Who's been polluting the longest?[/b] March 2026,[/I] [URL]https://education.cfr.org/learn/reading/who-releases-most-greenhouse-gases[/URL]
Why can't the Dis United States of America buy it's own plane?
[QUOTE=KeviKev68;3070137]Let's be clear the White House, Air Force One do not belong to Donald Trump. The White House is a workplace he doesn't get to make into something tack like Mar A Lago. The plane from Qatar is bribe and wants the American taxpayer to foot the bill retrofitting it so it can be gifted to him when he leaves office. Who does that?[/QUOTE]This shows how messed up the [I]Dis United States of America [/I] is at the moment. You cannot buy a plane to use for Air Force One from the company that is in your own country. No matter how you try to pass the blame of spin the message, bottom line is the [I]Dis United States of America[/I] cannot even build a plane for the President it's company.
Show why ultimately they are going lose the AI race to China. China has the power for AI. The [I]Dis United States of America[/I] does not. Why I pay no attention to politics.
[B]I vote with my money![/B]
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The next Dem Prez will have another colossal Repub mess to clean up.
[QUOTE=KeviKev68;3071002]I am not here to call Trump names. That's school ground stuff. The "deal" he made the other day with Iran was very bad and admitted nonsensical. When Obama released the 1. 7 billion dollars of Iran's money over 10 years ago the republicans were bleating for weeks if not months.
We have a president in office with no focus and much less in common sense. All of this stuff with a UFC fight at the White House, the ballroom and reflecting pool, then the 250 dollar bill fiasco. It's no wonder why we get results like we did this week.
I can't find one republican on Capital Hill or any other place who agrees with how Trump sold us out this week. It's getting kind of old listening to folks defending Trump's feelings or less than satisfactory job performance. Now we know why he had 6 bankruptcies. He's running America into the ground just like his businesses.[/QUOTE]On every level; domestic and foreign policy, the economy, the DOJ, the current quagmire, counterproductive Repub War of Choice based on a Repub lie, new laws and regulations America had thought would not be needed because generally people of honor had occupied the White House and led the 2 Houses of Congress rather than America-hating criminals and hopeless pathological liars, the Titanic deficits, everything from top to bottom will have to be recovered by Dems and only Dems this time around. They'll just have to smile and nod at whatever typical lame brain numbskull input the hopefully utterly irrelevant Repub minority has to offer and then promptly ignore it and forge ahead to do the right thing instead as FDR, JFK / LBJ, Obama, Biden and, despite the deadbeat Know Nothing, Do Nothing Repub majority at the time, Bill Clinton continued to do in his 2nd term to pull us out of the horrific mess Repubs made of everyhing.
It's going to be a long hard slog. But it must be done. And only Dems know what to do, know how to do it and will do it.
Oh well.
We tried.
The chump glass is always half full even when it's empty
He was right about the SOH being shut down not affecting things too much despite the rants of Dems.
Clearly someone or something dialed up the level of delusion to 11 with you, Elvis. I don't even know what to say to this.
Truly ridiculous level of mental contortions in your attempts to excuse your lord and master. On one hand you concede he's a sucker to go the war, on the other you claim it's no big deal, and then you claim he's smart to have exited from it. Exiting when you have been disgraced, embarrassed, humiliated and have no other option doesn't ameliorate the stupidity of the original decision. But then there's no reasoning with blind adherents like you. After all, you spin his TACO tariffs against China of 120%+ which he chickened out off almost immediately.
No, chickening out, causing havoc on the world and then shifting positions doesn't make you smart; it's a whole level of stupidity that only a zealous cult follower can fall for. The smart guy does'nt do stupid things in the first place. Why do you think multiple US presidents, including Biden who arguably was brain dead, didn't fall for the trap that Netanyahu set? Why did he make a chump ONLY out of trump despite trying to bring America into engaging war on Iran for decades? Because only Trump was stupid enough to fall for it; and now you're trying to fish for compliments- beyond pathetic dude.
And now the fool has picked a needless fight with Italy. America is alone, disliked, embarrassed and humiliated; every time the fool opens his mouth or does something, anything, he disgraces America. Yet cultish Chumps like you will try to find positivity where there is none whatsoever with this joker. Recite your learnings from "Trump: my glass is half full even when it's empty- Art of the deal part 2" in your next Maga meetings- I think it's pathetic.
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3070691]LOL. You know that you have TDS when if anyone says anything even remotely positive about Trump, the TDS fools like yourself have at it. The dogma of dumb Dems like yourself is that Trump is scum, the absolute worst. He sucks as a businessman. The war was a complete failure. His supporters are stupid, and Kamala Harris would have been way better, oh and Biden, who could not walk or talk was way better too. Yeah, Biden was so fucking good he got yanked by the ballot.
Heaven forbid you pull your head out of your ass and realize that Kamala's whole campaign was basically, "I am not Trump" and got her ass kicked. Was that a wake up call for those of you with TDS? Hell no! Why admit to being stupid when you can claim you are so smart?
I give Trump a the- for his action with this war. He was right about the SOH being shut down not affecting things too much despite the rants of Dems. And the other thing is he knew he had a losing hand and folded. I admire a president who made a mistake and changes a course while you people with TDS make fun of him with the TACO moniker. Do you fools want this war to continue? That is why you people with TDS are so pathetic. You all have no vision..[/QUOTE]
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Fun Facts about Biden's rank among historians as the 14th Best President in History.
As those of us who like to get the facts right have reviewed the recent 28 minute video of Joe Biden engaging, interacting and conversing with Jay Leno in one of Leno's episodic car discussion programs where it is abundantly clear that Joe Biden to this day exhibits no sign of dementia, no sign of being "brain dead", no sign of not knowing who he is, where he is, what he's doing or any of the other revisionist history horseshit Wingers have been slinging around for years, there are a couple of Fun Facts about Biden's rank as the 14th Best President in USA History that few if any media pundits will ever mention:
[B]Watch Joe Biden behaving normally, intelligently, well-informed, cognitively capable and more fit to serve as President of the United States of America this very day than Trump or any other Repub MAGA has ever behaved in their lives:[/B]
[URL]https://youtu.be/J1d3vDNmgDg?is=dF7Kh3MknwlYCFoE[/URL]
[B]We know how voters feel about Trump and Biden. But how do the experts rank their presidencies?[/B]
[URL]https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-18/trump-biden-presidents-day-ranking-poll-election-2024[/URL]
(See screenshots below).
The Fun Facts? There is only one Repub president who ranks marginally higher than Joe Biden as judged by those USA historians who served as president within the past 100 years. Just one. And the voters who might have voted for that Repub president of the past 100 years who ranks marginally higher than Joe Biden on those historians' considered and well-researched rankings of The Best Presidents in USA History would today be well into their 90's and up.