How Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy

On a spring day in 1954, Bell Labs researchers showed the first practical solar collectors at a press conference in Murray Hill, New Jersey, a toy -Ferris wheel with sunlight in front of a stunned amount. The solar tuture looked bright. But in the race for the commercialization of the technology that she invented, the United States would lose without a stroke. Last year China exported solar modules and modules worth 40 billion US dollars, while America, according to the New York Times, only sent $ 69 million. It was a breathtaking loss of a huge technological advantage. And now the United States seems to be determined to repeat the mistake. In its search for the aging fossil fuel industries, the Trump government has reduced the support of the federal government for the emerging cleantech sector and gave the main economic rivals of his nation the most generous gifts: a non-built path to block the control over emerging energy technologies, and one leg into the invention of the industries of the future. China's dominance of Solar was no accident. In the late 2000s, the government only found that the sector was a national priority. It then used deep subsidies, targeted guidelines and price wars to scale production, advance product improvements and reduce the costs. It has made similar movements in batteries, electric vehicles and wind turbines. In the meantime, President Donald Trump in the USA has set the work for the achievement of cleaning the cleaning in the USA to interpret the dynamics of assembly for the reconstruction of the nation's energy sector to clean, more sustainable species. The tax and expenditure law that Trump signed in a law at the beginning of July reduced the subsidies for solar and wind power in the Inflation Reducation Act of 2022. Legislation also reduced the support of the federal government for Cleanetech projects, which are too good for Chinese materials to punish the Chinese industry, which instead will be financially unexpected. In the meantime, the administration has reduced federal financing for science and attacked the financial foundations of the leading research universities and took the roots of future energy innovations and industries. A driving motivation for many of these guidelines is striving to protect the Legacy Energy Industry based on coal, oil and natural gas with which the United States is blessed. However, this strategy is the dilemma of the innovator at the national level, a country that adheres to its declining industries instead of investing in those who will define the future. It is not particularly important whether Trump believes in climate change or takes care of climate change. The economic and international security conditions to invest in modern, sustainable industries are just as undeniable as the chemistry of greenhouse gases. Without sustainable industrial guidelines that reward innovations, American entrepreneurs and investors risk no money and the time to create new companies, to develop new products or to develop first -class projects here. In fact, risk capital providers told me that numerous American climate tech companies are already looking for overseas and looking for markets on which they can rely on the government's support. Some fear that many other companies will fail in the coming months when subsidies disappear, stand developments and finance flags. All of this will help China to expand an already massive lead. The nation has installed almost three times as many wind turbines as the USA and generates more than twice as much solar energy. It has five of the ten largest EV companies in the world and the three largest wind turbines. China absolutely dominates the battery market and produces the vast majority of anodes, cathodes and battery cells that increasingly supply the global vehicles, networks and devices. China used the transition of cleaning energy to clean up its sky, improve its domestic industries, create jobs for its citizens, strengthen trade relationships and to build new markets in emerging countries. In return, it uses these business relationships to achieve soft power and expand their influence - everything while the USA returns them to global institutions. These extensive relationships are increasingly isolating China from external pressure, including those threatened by Trump's tactics: igniting or igniting trade wars. But stiff tariffs and hard conversations have not built up the largest economy in the world and have established the United States as a global technological force for more than a century. What was deep, persistent federal investments in education, science, research and development - the budget posts that Trump and his party wanted to eliminate. Another thing this summer, the EPA plans to revoke the “danger of the Obama era”, announced the legal basis for regulating the environmental pollution of the country. The agency's argument is strongly based on a report in which decades of conversation issues of refusal to talk are claimed that rising emissions have not led to the damage expected by scientists. It is a wild, Orwell plea for you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears in a summer, in which record waves in the middle west and east have seen record waves and now cover the forest fire into the forest fire. At the weekend, more than 85 scientists sent one point by point, 459 pages refuted the federal government, whereby countless possibilities were emphasized in which the report "is borne, is full of mistakes and not suitable to inform the political decision", as Bob Kopp, a climate researcher at Rutgers, on Bluesky. "The authors achieved these incorrect conclusions through selective filtering of evidence (" cherry selection "), overemphasis on uncertainties, incorrectly cited notes of experts, and a general discharge of the vast majority of the decades of decades of research by experts," stated the dozens of reviewers. which she wanted to support with thermalty, and to be heard from the risk of threats. To leave that we have to take measures to bring the tolerable summer of the past few years back. "You can read the full report here or the NPR here. And be sure to read Crownharts Early in the Spark on the endangered. 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