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

[John Clark]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 10:14 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*> Some imagine the office of president to have powers it does not have*


*And the most prominent of those is Mr. I Lowered Drug Prices By 2000
Percent*

*>>> * *put them in Greenland, power AI from there.  Put the data centers
> right there next to the plant, so the huge power cables are short.*
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> *>>>…There is absolutely* *nothing preventing a company from doing that
> right now if they think it makes any economic sense, there is no need to go
> to war with Denmark and conquer Greenland to get it done!*
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> *> Clearly investors do not trust the government of Denmark.  Imagine
> that.*
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*I assume you're joking. *


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> *>>…Experts have told corporations that some of the best places to put
> wind turbines is out at sea, there is no logical reason not to do so….*
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> *> I can think of some logical reasons to not do so.  Investors will be in
> a constant battle with boaters, with environmentalists, with locals if the
> project can be seen from the shore.  It would be vulnerable to attack by
> hostile military forces and greens.*
>

*And yet private corporations still want to invest money in offshore wind
farms, but the federal government controlled by Mr. I Lowered Drug Prices
By 2000 Percent interferes with the free market and prevents that from
happening, and you seem OK with that. Spike, you say you hate communism but
you sure aren't a capitalist. I am. *

* >>Put them on privately-owned land, privately financed.  Done.  [...]
>>  Federal government has no jurisdiction on wind turbines on privately-owned
>> land, *
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> *>>… a very long list of permits from the federal government; for example
> FAA clearances, wildlife permits, environmental permits, permits that allow
> a wind farm to connect to transmission lines that cross state lines, and
> many others…. John K Clark   *

*> Every form of energy production must have those permits.  FAA clearances
> are easy if you don’t locate near an airport. *
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*No permit is easy to get if the President of the United States issues an
executive order saying that wind farms can't get any permits, and You Know
Who did exactly that on his very first day of his second term.  *

*> John as an S-alpha, one might think you would be more interested in
> power projects which can be fired up much more quickly than wind power.  I
> can think of some examples: a big Diesel loco can produce 4 MW each.*


*I assume you're joking again, but if not there's nothing preventing you
from investing your money in such a project . Let's see, you'd need about
250 diesel locomotives to equal the power of one nuclear power plant, and a
locomotive costs about $4 million, so for 250 that's about $1 billion. Not
counting the cost of converting DC to AC.  And one diesel locomotive
costs about $800 an hour to operate, so 250 of them would cost $200,000 an
hour .*

*> Wind power has its advantages, but it makes very expensive power,*
>

*At one time that may have been true but technology advances and things
change.Today 13.6% of China's total electrical energy comes from wind
power, and 12.4% comes from solar power.  I think China knows something
that He Who Must Not Be Named does not. *


*John K Clark*
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