Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "The American Invention Dominated by China: Solar Panels | WSJ U.S. vs. China" video.

  1. That comes at the price of political appeasement, which Beijing increasingly tries to leverage as its own economy burns out. The ideal would be having multiple sources worldwide who can offer similar yields and prices.
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  2. Americans are 7x more productive too, and the gap seems to actually be widening.
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  3. Concentrating solar energy to melt salt may be a better solution, as the raw heat is easy to store and tap into when demand fluctuates throughout the day.
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  4. The consequences of something going wrong are too great -- which it inevitably will especially as usage increases, hence the select few countries trusted to operate and maintain nuclear power. Plus nuclear keeps getting more expensive, unlike wind and solar. Geothermal holds more promise, as we have the deep drilling experience to potentially tap into anywhere on the planet (itself largely magma heated by nuclear reactions), and the worst that could happen wouldn't be any different than what's already been experienced in the history of life on Earth.
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  5. The "Smiling Curve" states that manufacturing is actually the least value-added of the process, compared to development beforehand and marketing+sales afterward. This is how a developed economy powered by education and experimentation stays rich even after offshoring the actual making of stuff, and what the CPC is desperate to achieve but is mortally scared to allow for the required deviance from their narrow prescription of "proper" thinking.
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  6. A critical one too, basically handing them the capital, tech, and consumption needed to make it all work because the Party's plans just don't work. And still doesn't seeing how "dual circulation" still isn't, getting even farther to achieve instead with Western firms "derisking" away from "New China".
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  7. ​ @jetli740 Practically anything more advanced than a home router has the ability to monitor internet traffic as the packets pass through it.
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  8.  @cabasadefogo9533  Those are just centrally-controlled facades, and they only run 3~4 hours each night. Look in the windows though and at best 1/3 of them have lights on, even in residential towers that should have people in them in the evenings.
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  9. ​ @johnlay3040 Which would wipe out Mainland China. Independent estimates of the true PRC GDP-debt ratio makes the US seem prudent by comparison.
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