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We are doing it wrong..America added 56 GW all of last year, most from solar... China added 93 GW in a month. Just for comparison, the last American nuclear power plant was completed in 2024. It took 11 years to build and cost $35 billion to generate ~1 GW of power.
Jared Isaacmanx.comChina’s new-build solar additions in the last six months are more than the US has installed in total: China Flow > US stock. Germany was once the global champion of solar. China’s new additions in six months are two times Germany’s installed capacity.
Chartbook 409 Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy.
On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
The document explores how scalability, the ability to expand without changing the framework, has shaped modern projects, economies, and knowledge, leading to a loss of transformative diversity.
asletaiwan.orgThe AI Village in Numbers
theaidigest.org
June 2009 in Guangdong…
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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
During my visit to China, high-speed rail was one of the most visible expressionsof modernization, progress, and technology. In California, taking the Amtrak was a reprieve from it.
Jasmine Sun • the scenic route
