Oh didn't even notice the date, you're right given the rate of the build out, it's likely much further along now.

yeah but how fast is china moving?

perhaps the real 88 miles per hour is the libyan nationalists we met along the way.

i hate it when someone else does my joke before me. :p

There's very little useful tech in the US; every time I see what other countries are doing and having traveled to some. We're living in the dark ages.

I can't think of anything other than enshitification being the largest advancements in the US.

They make >80% of the world's solar panels too, so they're also helping every other country meet their goals at the same time.

It's not actually about mineral availability at all. The problem is with refining these minerals, and China invested decades into building out the infrastructure to do that. Geography has little to do with China's success here.

sometimes things become standard I guess

like driving 1000 kilometers for a trip or weighing 100 kilograms

using 1000 kWh in your house