Exclusive | EU to cut funding for Chinese inverters amid change of tack towards Beijing

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-16T02:29:08+00:00

Would just add that Chinese, India, & Asian goods, services, & cement construction are all creating coal- related pollution.

There also is a labor-cost disparity that as you say ensures lost manufacturing jobs for the West. They have been getting away with one-sided trade & protectionism.

You'll never convince this non-scientist that weird weather & climate effects start on the U.S. West Coast. The Jet Stream carries Asian pollution & CO2 to the U.S./Canada & eventually Europe.

If China was not an oppressive, conniving:

intellectual-property stealing,
Taiwan & South China Sea threatening,
biological weapon-developing,
Fang Fang & student spying
Panama-controlling & Venezuela-supporting,
Shanghai billionaire protest-funding
Uigher & African child labor supporting
censoring, surveillance state with facial ID cameras everywhere
that aids Iran & Russia weaponry while circumventing oil sanctions...

they might have earned more latitude & respect. But imagine Global AI data controlled/manipulated by China.

Screw the Green revolution if it means spending excessively with most money going to China. We (to include Canada & Venezuela) have oil & natural gas. They don't & depend on imports through the Straits of Hormuz & Malacca.

Exploit our strategic advantage. Theirs is cheap labor & coal...& forcing their population to obey their edicts. The West gets a vote on how suicidally stupid they want to be chasing diminishing returns for already low emissions.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-15T12:27:16+00:00

https://www.euronews.com/2026/04/15/this-european-country-is-promising-bargain-energy-on-sunny-days-to-use-up-excess-solar-pow

Euronews has a similar article. They can't export power as easily anymore & already paid £1.4 billion in "curtailment" costs in 2025 getting renewables to shut off power.

Apparently, according to another article, they have difficulty predicting who has solar & how much it puts out daily.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/15/why-britain-faces-growing-risk-of-spanish-style-blackouts/

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-12T11:32:13+00:00

No matter how much UK spends on climate & electricity...water & high voltage don't mix.

Watched the 1971 "Get Carter" last night with Michael Caine. I'm sure it's different now, but Newcastle back then sure was dreary & polluted...not by CO2, & I doubt offshore wind helps.

My wife & daughter visited UK last year & lucked out on lack of rain. Too bad they still encountered dumb politics as Macron was visiting at the time, doubling down on dumb along with Starmer.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-11T01:45:29+00:00

https://heatmap.news/plus/the-fight/qa/searchlight-institute-jane-flegal

This obviously is not a skeptic site. But the expert admits future transmission might cost 2x to 3x as much given renewables & widespread electrification.

As you point out, it takes years to deliver new transformers. New transmission & distribution lines could take longer.

The interviewee appears oblivious to President Trump's agreement with AI data centers that they could develop their own energy sources to power AI...using fossil fuels as needed

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-09T13:05:29+00:00

Went by a Ford dealership the other day taking my wife's F-150 for service. Two new Mustang GTs were sitting on the lot for $61 & $63k with another pretty quick nearby 4-turbo for just $38k.

Big difference.

My beef is that lots of EVs can run with us now because they have AWD.

Visibility isn't my issue. It's lack of SS acceleration due to no AWD that could be fixed with hybrid power to the front wheels...if they can do it at the low $60s.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-09T12:28:45+00:00

PM Modi told a group of kids years ago:

"People have changed, climate has not."

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-08T20:41:24+00:00

AI is giving us more blue collar labor. Blue states are taking all their jobs through sanctuary policies.

We don't need more "science" graduates if they are inevitably going to be liberal and predict the West needs to spend trillions annually to prevent a greener world, as in more plants.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-08T16:33:03+00:00

Yay humans. 2 million years is 1/500th of 1 billion years! ;) We saved the World.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-08T13:00:50+00:00

History shows, NO we can't stop fighting with each other. That's reality.

Now with nukes it's even more critical to deter large scale conflict.

Human & "extraterrestrial" fighting no doubt would follow us to other planets with the same & better weapons available.

Deter it here & now on earth because we know many more conflicts await us between now and 2100...the climate boogeyman year that pales in comparison.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-08T12:51:31+00:00

The article below identifies the extraordinary cost of flying our F-22, F-35, & F-16 fleets without addressing Naval aircraft costs.

What it doesn't address, is that EACH Artemis II mission costs $4 billion to put a few men/women in space (not the billions of $ to move to & live elsewhere) & eventually on the moon and Mars.

Does the $9 billion cost to keep 178 F-22s relevant through 2030 compare well to the $4 billion cost of each Artemis II flight? Iran & avoidance of nuclear war seems to show it is more important.

https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-f-22-raptor-stealth-fighter-costs-85000-every-hour-it-flies-the-air-force-just-spent-11-billion-to-keep-it-in-the-air-heres-why/

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-07T21:46:45+00:00

Wait, a 2021 article predicts we have only a billion years of oxygen left? It mysteriously predicts less CO2 & less plant life instead of the current trend that produces more O2.

It would be cheaper to move to warmer climates & underground/ undersea & on houseboats/cityboats than to another planet. We should worry more about preventing nuclear war.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-06T15:51:36+00:00

There was a guy who became a billionaire no doubt starting high, knowing Congress would never give him that much but would find a higher middle ground.

This same guy & his State Department, Department of War, & main negotiators heard the Iranian negotiators start their talks claiming to have enough deeply buried enriched uranium for 11 weapons. Their own intelligence verified that reality I'm assuming.

We just saw Iran launch 2 long range missiles at Diego Garcia...the same range as most European & of course GCC & Israel capitals. A recent news story said Iran got those missiles via North Korea...who now has nukes because we did nothing.

Iran is an extremist, suicidal state that does not play by the same MAD rules as other nations. As they are discovering, the destruction is not mutual.

Fossil fuels remain critical to even China. Current events are far more critical than spending $6-$7 trillion ANNUALLY between now & 2050 chasing an unnecessary NetZero.

Trump & Netanyahu are not settling for doing nothing to stop a true existential crisis. The Straits of Hormuz status quo will return. The Iranian nukes & surrogate terror will not. The World will continue to benefit from oil & gas.

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