China added a Germany-sized low carbon electricity grid last year.
Nearly 500 TWh more generation, almost all solar and wind, built in factories that still burn coal. Carbon payback came in under two years and power sector emissions still fell.
Germany already had zero carbon nuclear power.
It shut the last plants down in 2023 because ideology demanded it. Higher prices and more coal and gas backup followed.
One country scales clean energy through ruthless pragmatism. The other commits economic suicide and calls it environmental virtue.
The West is economically self-destructing by submitting to blue haired lesbians on SSRIs.
J.P. Morgan + SpaceX= Largest IPO
Congratulations to the @spaceX team on this milestone, we were proud to serve as a lead bookrunner on the transaction.
Jason Calacanis on SpaceX's Unknown Origin Story: Elon Wanted to Back Up the Biosphere in Space!
@Jason:
“Most people don't remember this, but when @elonmusk was starting SpaceX, the original idea when he was running around with Adeo and they were looking at some rockets and getting carriage from Russian rockets was to back up the biosphere.”
“And he came back from that trip and I remember talking to him about it and he said, ‘I think I just have to make my own rockets because that's actually where the problem is, and it would be easier just to make my own rocket to back up the biosphere.’
And he wanted to put geo-domes, like geodesic domes in space, with all the plants, wildlife, and creatures. What incredible vision.
And then there was the necessity of actually getting that up into space, and that's the unknown origin story.”