▲ | ben_w 4 days ago | |
I think you're arguing against something I didn't say? The tech is great. I'm usually the one defending it, even. But you do actually have to build the factories. Which we (humanity, I'm not American) are, as fast as we can, but that's the trend-line to look at, not what the tech can ultimately do. I mean, to one of your points, I'm one of the few people here who keeps saying that if China wanted to make it a strategic goal, they have the manufacturing capacity to put in a genuinely global power grid with 1Ω electrical resistance for a fairly low material cost (few hundred billion), what a shame about the geopolitical realities getting in the way of this… |