[ExI] Trump Is Obsessed With Oil, but Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] Trump Is Obsessed With Oil, but Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World

 

 

 

On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 8:42 AM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

> Batteries are not a power source.  They are a storage medium.  Far too many people don’t understand that.

 

>…Do you believe that power production and power storage are not closely related? 

 

Ja, of course they are closely related.  Gasoline and gas tanks are closely related.  But mention of the gas tank is irrelevant.  We know that gasoline must be contained in something in order to haul it around.  The articles should compare power sources, not storage media.

 

>…And wind turbines and solar energy farms are certainly forms of energy production…

 

Sure.  So why go on about batteries?  Those who write articles should focus on the means to charge the batteries.  They should also offer a complete picture: the environmental impact of energy storage over the life cycle, the cost over the life cycle, etc.  

 

Once the public fully understands the subtleties of energy management, the current conflict over Greenland becomes clearer: it is an ideal place to set up nukes and coal plants.  Plenty of land up there, very sparsely populated, with nearly all the population right along the coast.  It would be a great place to set up nukes and coal burners off the grid to run data centers.

 

>… our Mad King has done his best to cancel construction of both those things…

 

So put the wind turbines on private land with private funding.  Governments cannot cancel those.  

 

>…even those that involve no government money. 

 

John K Clark

 

Not if they are on private land.  The federal government has no say on private ownership of turbines.  But for some odd reason, those don’t pay, or not yet anyway.  Why do they not pay please?  Articles should focus on that question, not politics.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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