‘the abundance of [AI] will be limited by the abundance of energy’.

And the reason current US policy opposes clean, renewable energy is --- purely political.

You don’t even need to mention the long-term sustainability benefits of renewable energy. It is simply the dominant option economically. Dollars in, watts produced, fossil energy can’t touch it.

Politics is merely a downstream effect of the root of the problem: corruption and regulatory capture. Regression into the authoritarian petrostate pattern.

Who is opposing renewable energy? Texas is projected to top California as the state with the largest amount of solar before the end of the Trump administration.

> And the reason current US policy opposes clean, renewable energy is --- purely political.

What isn't "purely political?"

Everything is political in the world, unfortunately.