The world’s largest demonstration plant for a new kind of renewable energy storage is up and running in the west of the China. Called liquid-air energy storage (LAES) the plant uses renewable electricity to compress air to extreme densities until it turns to liquid. It can then be rapidly released to power a turbine and discharge that green energy back into the grid.
Meanwhile, US cuts NSF funding.
They really want China to win.
They ‘won’ a long time ago, you just are now seeing them starting to get ahead.
Won what? Unemployment is rampant, their real estate is in a state of crisis the west has never experienced and it looks like they‘re preparing for war as well. And with everything we‘ve learned about Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine that likely won‘t go in China‘s favor either.
This article on the other hand is just the weekly „China is decades ahead!“ fluff piece that will likely be forgotten this time next week after actual scientists had a look at it and found some plot holes in the story. Be it about the revolutionary nature of it or physical properties.
I don’t know where the idea that there is a winner and a loser for everything came from? Probably the same dicks that invented patent trolling. Anyone can do anything if they put their minds and resources to it, and doing a good thing after someone else is not a loss.
China is just getting on with doing their thing, slightly more responsibly and sustainably than most who developed before. Usa and other 'wannabe usa’s (like where i live) seem to be content doing their things less responsibly and less sustainably.
It’s not China ‘winning’ in this scenario, they’re trying not to lose too much, or, to postpone losses, but are likely to have significant losses forced on them nonetheless.
I think it’s more of a “dickheads wantonly shitting on the fan scenario” than a “winner takes all”.