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points by andsoitis 3 days ago | 0 comments

> But our government is banning Chinese tech to serve our outdated industries instead of importing it to serve the population.

It protects American companies who operate in the green energy generation and storage arena from Chinese competition.

[–] reactordev 3 days ago

No, it protects fossil fuel energy companies from having to retool and change.

[–] andsoitis 3 days ago

It does that too, but it would be unbalanced to not also recognize it protects green energy companies in America from Chinese competition.

Not only does Chinese competition get blocked, but governments are incentivizing green energy. For instance, just recently it was reported that Tesla’s $10B solar factory could get 35 years of tax breaks in Texas (Oil Capital!!!)

https://electrek.co/2026/10/23/tesla-solar-factory-texas-35-...

[–] noduerme 3 days ago

Sorry, which country in the world burns the most coal? https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/coal-cons...

[–] banktops 2 days ago

China of course. But they are not hobbled by energy ideologies. China is pragmatic and still increasing coal and nuclear power depending on what works.

[–] Schiendelman 3 days ago

Honestly, it's not even doing that. Thing that would really push the US ahead would be the tax breaks we had until a couple years ago.

[–] blitzar 3 days ago

> protects American companies who operate in the green energy generation

Wont someone think of the big beautiful clean coal companies