Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "China Is Outspending the U.S. to Achieve the ‘Holy Grail’ of Clean Energy | WSJ U.S. vs. China" video.

@bryanleubg Nope. The US doesn't have high speed rail now, to copy. It didn't have high speed rail back in the 1950s, either, when the Shinkansen ws built.
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@MOODOH-254 The record for travelling from Glasgow to London at an average speed of 126 mph was set in 1926.
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The DOE headquarters, shown at 4:47, is one of a number of sick architectural jokes in DC: The Forrestal Building is on stilts, with the ground floor maybe thirty feet up in the air. Jamese Forrestal committed suicide in the 1940s -- by jumping out of his DC office window.
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In fifty or sixty years of trying, nobody has yet managed to make this Holy Grail work -- although one American promoter has made an unlikely clam of "going energy positive" for a seccond or so. 'Course it took us roughly five thousand years of trying to make the blast furnace work, so who knows? It may work out in the end...
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