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For all these examples, they are either pretty much on par with other countries (or slightly ahead), using dumping to kill the competition (PV) or focusing their resources on strategic tech -batteries- (like any authorian regime ever did).

I’m not saying is not saying they are not innovative or a technologic power.

But saying they have brought new tech (that Europeans or Americans had discarded) is not really correct.

Such as?

They have managed to take over many industries mostly though their focused resources allocation, extremely large internal market and some dumping.

But what technology have they developed, that others failed?

That’s partially a cognitive biais. You mostly remember the ones that survived and forget about the plethora that didn’t.

For instance: China, like many countries, also has lots of h2 trials that failed.

Time will tell. But saying that costs will be equivalent to that of conventional wind turbine is putting a lot of pressure on"will", which is doing all the heavy lifting…

I know. Many are trying to do similar things. But this concept will take a very long time until it works well enough.

Reading the article?!? The Internet has no time for that, sir! /s 🤣

Joke aside, the article says:

“Once these systems are built in large numbers, the power they produce could be as cheap as from normal wind turbines.”

My answer is: don’t hold your breath. I’m in that industry and it will take a veeeeeery long time until the costs are on par with current systems.

Spoiler: it will most likely never make a dent to the current wind industry.

880MWh / year over 25y (assumption) à 50 USD / MWh, means a revenue of 25x880x50 = 1.100.000 USD.

The target total cost of ownership should be around 1-2M USD, in order to be viable today.

If you need 1 employee to run the plant à 50k USD salary, that’s already 1.25M USD.

So the key to unlocking this technology is either to ramp up the power generation without increasing the operating costs and capital costs and/or much higher electricity prices.

Hopefully, #1 will be possible, looks pretty cool.

Some people don’t understand why I’m not coming back to the USA… Well…

Interesting that assassination is not on the list.

“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty”.

That’s the spirit. Good sheep. Keep up the good work. /s

More and more, not paying won’t be a decision but a necessity anyway.

Read the room…

Ok, that might be on me 😅

Still a very loose use of “modern times” 🤣 But I guess it’s just a Big Beautiful Line, since everything seems to have to be the best, biggest thing ever, these days 🤦🏻‍♂️

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It is the most transformative NYC transit project in modern history.

Hum… I highly doubt it. Maybe in the USA. Or even, maybe around NYC. At best.

PS: OP edited the title after my comment.

Also a very loose usage of modern history. All the lines were created in the last 100-something years. So 1 more line seems important (because this trip currently sucks), sure. But it’s really dismissive of the existing network.

Is this leopardatemyface? /s

I didn’t talk about how good the companies were. Just their focus on short/long term objectives.

All the companies you mentioned are focused on long term goals (at least the ones I know). So you do confirm what I write 😃

Is greed specific to smartphone-producing companies?