The journal ‘Science’ criticizes Trump’s anti-renewable energy policy: ‘The US is failing to benefit from its own innovations’. Renewable energy is now the world’s leading source of electricity. China has become the leading manufacturer while the US is betting on an energy model stuck in the past.
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-12-18/the-journal-science-criticizes-trumps-anti-renewable-energy-policy-the-us-is-failing-to-benefit-from-its-own-innovations.html
Posted by mafco
10 Comments
It’s not long before the oil companies get mad at Trump for low crude prices.
GOP = a fossil fuel lobbying firm masquerading as a political party
Quick, burn more coal to block out the sun to counter china
In before
– scientists are all libs and they’re saying this because they hate Trump (false)
– “at least i have freedom of speech in America” (false)
– China bad because building new coal plants
Voting has consequences. Not voting does too.
We’ve gone Mad Max and are stealing oil now.
The manufacturing ship sailed a long time ago. The real issue nobody talks about in these high-level policy debates is the soft cost. We have the tech, but we wrap it in six months of permitting delays, interconnection queues, and fragmented local codes. You can have the best innovation on earth, but if the local utility can stonewall the project for arbitrary reasons, the innovation doesn’t matter. That friction is what kills us, not just the factory location.
Reminds me of what Bill Nye said at the end of his debate with Kent Ham:
I just want to close by reminding everybody what’s at stake here; if we abandon all that we’ve learned, our ancestors what they’ve learned about nature and our place in it, if we abandon the process by which we know it; if we askew; if we let go of everything that people have learned before us; if we stop driving forward, stop looking for the next answer to the next question, we in the United States will be out competed by other countries, other economies. That would be ok I guess but I was born here I’m a patriot, and so we have to embrace science education. To the voters and tax payers that are watching please keep that in mind, we have to keep science education in science and science classes.
If American military and foreign policy planners aren’t literally planning on using climate crisis as basically a massive weapon of mass destruction to hold on to hegemony, I don’t really understand the policy.
China and India have lots of population and neighbors that make them far more vulnerable to many climate crises… but even if that is the plan, we should at least plan to have power during this whole future period of time.
one of the biggest unforced errors of this administration.
electricity prices are going up