China's historic move into capitalizing on renewable energy is making the country less reliant on oil. It is a long-term agenda, nothing fast and furious that can fizzle out. The current situation over fossil fuel from the Middle East is forcing more countries to look at renewable energy in a new light.
China is already in the forefront of exploiting such expectation of heightened interest in renewable energy. China is already the dominant country focusing on solar panels, wind turbines and is exploring the feasibility of exporting even portable nuclear power plants. This is not a fairy tale in the making. It is China's next real agenda, the same format as its domination in solar panels and wind turbines and not leaving out EVs. These latter three endeavors were under much skepticism and ridicule initially, but now they are game changing moves.
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China has moved into what is more than meets the eye in energy innovations. As they say, necessity is the mother of invention, and the Chinese knows all the hurdles being placed in front of them to make them collapse. The USA can keep its mind fixated all on fossil fuel and ignore everything else happening, but China is doing many things to move away from it.
There are reports that China has found a way out of the 'drill baby drill' mantra. Many years of quiet research have provided the Chinese with the expertise to extract the same fossil fuel from 'air' and 'water', two of the most abundant matter on earth. By air I mean the carbon dioxide extraction and from water I am talking about the hydrogen. I do not know the exact details, but it is the result of combining the two under high pressure and extreme low temperature to create a liquid that can be stored as fuel and later released as energy to generate electricity. Seems a far-fetched idea right now, just an initial breakthrough, more like science fiction, but can we say that there is no smoke without fire. Many things have to come together to make this breakthrough and China had them all. It is a first step, but it shows it can work.
We may ask why China is doing this when it is moving away from fossil fuel in the first place. The answer is pragmatism. The sun does not shine the whole day for solar power, while the wind does not blow the whole day for wind turbines. This new source of power, if harnessed, could enable China to move a further step away from oil. Knowing the Chinese, they can eventually make things much cheaper than others who tried the same thing. Do not underestimate the Chinese resolve.
Of course, the West can ridicule the project as science fiction. Let it be. And let them suffer the consequence of being overly skeptical regarding the Chinamen, still thinking they can only be chefs and laundrymen. Let them think like Elon Musk, laughing away at the Chinese EV threat. He is not laughing today.
Who can laugh last will still laugh best.
The above comes from video 'China's New Energy Breakthrough Is Shocking Everyone' from the site 'Snap Shift'. Take a look.
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