Is this time different?

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China is going full speed ahead on solar. It takes about 2/3 of an oz of silver to produce a square meter of photovoltaic panel. Going solar will greatly reduce China's dependence on foreign oil for energy. Their cities will have clean air again. Supposedly China now has the worlds largest Navy.
I believe our only chance at maintaining sovereignty is maintaining superiority in space and technology. Just my opinion, don't crucify me for it.

https://www.kitco.com/charts/silver#ny

You're not wrong. Also need power for data centers. I'd argue electricity isn't political either and we should be improving all of it, but no, we're subject to political extremes on either end.

"Clean" energy isn't anti-maga, but it's a great headline generator and a target to cut to get cheers from ill informed. Likewise, it's great when the pendillum swings for cheers from just the opposite. We don't have a baseline of decision making based on rational outcomes anymore.

As an aside, China's spending on Aerospace for the foreseeable future greatly eclipses ours. I chuckle everytime everyone scoffs at their latest tech like G6 fighters etc as if they are still in the 90's. They aren't far away from having both superior technology and weapons... as well as production capacity, numbers deployed, and the manpower behind them.

We're the setting sun.