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China is winning the race to Type 1 Civilization and we're not even aware it's happening. By 2030, China will have the manufacturing capacity to build an entire U.S. worth of generation from solar and storage alone - every single year. The flow of energy is what drives physical change in the world. Control over that flow is power. Sunlight on Earth is 10,000x as powerful as all human energy sources combined. This is the Space Race of the 21st century, and it has the potential to lift humanity into an unprecedented era of abundance, but it will dramatically shift the balance of power globally. The West needs to wake up and realize that the construction of TW scale solar manufacturing and TWh scale battery manufacturing is not about climate change. Sunlight is >99.9% of Earth's energy budget. The tools that harness the power of the Sun are the tools that unlock power at planetary scale. This is not a race that we can afford to ignore.
Since we've had an understanding of modern physics, we've known about the immense power of the Sun. We've understood the potential of PV for a long time, but the technology wasn't ready to power planetary scale civilization. It is now.
Talking heads love to talk about the "low energy density" of solar, but solar could power even the densest cities in the U.S. https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1918722555126382727
Sol is our birthright. Flames of fusion that will burn for billions of years. And a lego set for Type 1 beneath our feet. https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1773117659049079220
