One very fast way to catch up to China on this chart is to create a massive tax equity fund that pays for every US homeowner to have their own solar + storage.
1. We would add back 2-3 TWh to the grid and the chart below would quickly look like the US and China were neck and neck.
2. Homeowners no longer have electricity bills.
3. The companies that pay into the tax equity fund are simply paying in a dollar they would otherwise pay in taxes - making it costless for them.
The time has come for this top-down moonshot on domestic energy.
True.
Once the solar energy generation to robot manufacturing to chip fabrication to AI loop is closed, conventional currency will just get in the way.
Just wattage and tonnage will matter, not dollars.
True.
Once the solar energy generation to robot manufacturing to chip fabrication to AI loop is closed, conventional currency will just get in the way.
Just wattage and tonnage will matter, not dollars.
Chinese AI company MiniMax, which has raised ~$850M, debuts three LLMs, including a 456B-parameter model that it claims performs better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (@kyle_l_wiggers / TechCrunch)
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