As we enter the second half of 2026, some of China’s renewable energy generation marks are being published that makes the Outlaw US Empire a laughingstock.
If you spend 50 years forgoing any dreams to making bombs to bully people with lining your pockets with the public purse it’s no wonder you become really stupid to do anything sensible .
What’s the cure for someone who has been in an institutional asylum for 50 years ?
Thank you Karl, that is an excellent report and the export of Made in China systems to Africa and others in the global south is so good to see. It certainly neuters the westies dreams of energy systems monopoly. Once a country has an abundance of energy and can retain it in public ownership it has a dramatically increased potential to sustain lower cost of living in a much better living environment. The Venetian Vampire Squid must be choking on its own garotte.
Thank you Karl Sanchez, Wonderful news on China's ENERGY RESPONSIBILITY
HOW DOES CHINA PLAN ITS ELECTRICAL PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION (Centralized or Distributed) GRID?
From an Electrical Engineering (consultant to Hydro-Quebec) friend, the biggest loss factor from Central Generating Stations, whether Hydro Dams, Fossil Fuel, Nuclear, Wind, Solar, Bio-methane, Tidal etc is in Electrical Transmission & Transformers after the electricity is produced. When one counts massive loss of Biosphere Photosynthesis & Wildlife generation in Dammed & areas affected by such as Uranium production, refinement, storage (1 million years) for Nuclear or other productive Biosphere losses in Wind & Solar farms, or the millions of miles of transmission line losses across just Turtle-Island / North-America in long & short distance grid distribution, the losses are huge. Colonial Society being enumerate (Violence breeds ignorance), just hasn't done the math compared with local Biosphere based generation of energy, electricity & combined resources.
TRANSMISSION & TRANSFORMERS add up to some 5% loss (EMF shedding, Infrastructure costs, financing & transformer voltage change loss at various levels) per 100 miles = 3.107% loss per 100 kilometres) of the electrical energy produced. Montreal to the James-Bay, La-Grande Hydro Generating station is some 1,400 km = 43.5% loss in a standard Energy Audit.
Transformer losses in multiple Step-Up & Step-Down procedures for Voltage at various grid locations is equal to Transmission losses. When Audit Externalities, such as loss of productive Biosphere, watersheds & land, damage to Wild-Life & Human health & productivity, one can add another 50% loss of electricity originally produced.
'PUSH' Generation, Transmission & Transformer of Electricity from Central Generating Stations, across one way Grids, produce line & system overload at many 10s of 1000s of choke points, inherent to Central Electrical Design.
TOTAL LOSSES = >95% of energy produced at any Central Station, DISTANCE being the largest factor.
COMPLEMENTARY ENERGY Distributed Decentralized Electrical production such as:
2) Building mounted helical linear-axis Wind-Turbines on building wind-shear surfaces (Roof-line & windward building corners concentrate wind at 16 times air speed & density),
4) Existing Bridge Pylon mounted river, wave, tidal) water-flow Turbines as well as bridge structure mounted, above water, linear-axis helical wind turbines.
5) Embodied energy in the materials, Consumer goods & food waste thrown into our garbage dumps every day, harnessed in Circular Community-Economy at the average ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Apartment, Townhouse & Village) when Separated at source into valuable refined goods, products & resources by community Specialists can lower Mining-damage, Forestry-damage & Petro-exhaustion by over 95%.
6) GREEN ROOFS to capture & filter PRECIPITATION (rain, snow & humidity) on site within each Multihome or Industry building. Diversified distributed essential Water & Energy systems become impervious to source disruption as well as becoming income generators for people, governments & companies. Municipal purification & pumping of both clean water & 10s of 1000s of chemical & bio-solids laden water downstream with ineffective mechanical & chemical treatments is very electricity consumptive as well as water systems toxins destroying to downstream or ocean life.
a) PROXIMITY, is so important to electric system efficiencies. One great cost to solar, wind & other alternative energies is
b) BUILDING-INFRASTRUCTURE. Instead of Placing solar on expensive structures on relatively-distant vacant land, Detroit should consider placing these panels directly upon existing Multihome-Building-complexes (eg. Apartment, Townhouse & Village clustered structures) & still functioning industrial buildings. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing The number of people or businesses served develops a critical-mass, economies-of-scale, where.
INFRASTRUCTURE DAMAGE SAVINGS All of the above LOCAL HARVESTING of unused solar, wind, water, fecal, urine & materials repair & reuse will stop the damage to such as Solar damage to buildings & infrastructure, Wind-damage to buildings & infrastructure, Water-damage to bridges & away from Toxic Garbage Dump degradation of many 1000s of hectares of land in just Turtle-Island per year. Local strategies produce twice the energy required by any community of people. Every city can be an energy exporter for stable income. When Electric Grids function with electricity produced in distributed, decentralized locations, flowing across multiple grid locations from such as consumer Business, Commerce, Multihomes & Infrastructure, in a Circular-flow fashion, then PUSH & PULL electrical ease of 'flow' greatly increases further reducing losses.
Thank you Karl, Too bad, we in the west are prisoners of such an unproductive colonial fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') amnesic system. The West could take our lethargic-economy loss, by implementing distributed, decentralized Consumer-based small-local scale & initiative electrical production at 100 million sites, just upon existing building & other infrastructure. We still can from the bottom-up build a truly amazing Circular Electrical flow with next to no foreign or domestic resource extraction & exploitation. The west is captive to Oligarch directed FROZEN FUNDING SYNDROME. DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? web-based Community-Circular Economy software for Multihomes & neighbourhood empowerment, based in the ~100 (50-150) Multihomes where 70% of people live today. Do-we-know-? Begins as intranet Virtual Private Network VPN systems, with internet & web-based advertising for individual & grouped Talents, goods, services, resources & dreams as voluntary PERSONAL DISCLOSURE CHOICES within each ~100 person Multihome & neighbourhood Circular-economy enhancing one's livelihood & community. Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are
Great article, as always Karl I take most everything you write as gospel. I believe I'm a few years older than you and a few years younger than psychohistorian 'n I don't know about you guys but time is flying by like I can't believe!? But these seventies seem to be skipping years and I swear I can't even remember my seventy fifth birthday last summer!? Heck the rest of that year was pretty blurry too. Either you've got a typo, or I'm in the twilight zone?
Michael Hudson has pointed out for 50 years that the US needs an industrial policy. Here in the US, it looks like 2 generations will be held captive to college loan debt. Debt is an asset for the country. $ 1.77 Trillion.
"AI Overview
Yes, for the U.S. government, student loans are considered a significant asset. Specifically, federal student loans are the largest financial asset held by the U.S. Treasury, according to the Federal Reserve. While student loan debt represents a liability for the individual borrowers, it is an asset for the government because the government is the lender and expects repayment with interest. "
Many of the dams that were built by Reclamation during the 30s-1950s will begin turning 100 years old and their equipment will need modernization. Many are now owned by private corps like PG&E. Oops!
However the Chinese use fossil fuel generation to build all this stuff. They are still adding more output in kWh terms in conventional generation than renewables. They are not stupid they realise that it's about having excess energy that fuels growth in the economy. So it's not about 'becoming green' it's about harnessing all and every type of energy.
Whilst Europe energy output declined and the US struggles to increase their's , China and to a lesser extent Russia steams ahead.
China’s build-up of renewables will allow them to retire older energy generation with the aim being Fusion and space-based solar. China’s energy vision is very well laid out to 2060 and beyond.
There is a problem with reliance on so called renewables and nukes ( whether fusion or fission). They are all 'must run' baseload. To operate any electricity grid you need mid-merit power stations, those that load follow, one's you can turn up and down , minute by minute, sometimes seconds by seconds. Otherwise when you try to turn on that kettle or computer or anything else, it won't work, because the supply couldn't follow the demand. Batteries cannot and never will ( basic physics) be able to do this. Some people dream of nukes that will be able to do this, I for one will be no where near where this is tried out. Nope the only way to boil the big kettle to get the steam to turn the lump of metal to create an instant magnetic field that we call 'electricity' is to burn another lump of coal or up the knob on the gas burner. Not even the Chinese will get round this one.
If you spend 50 years forgoing any dreams to making bombs to bully people with lining your pockets with the public purse it’s no wonder you become really stupid to do anything sensible .
What’s the cure for someone who has been in an institutional asylum for 50 years ?
Big problem !
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Dr Strangelove
Thank you Karl, that is an excellent report and the export of Made in China systems to Africa and others in the global south is so good to see. It certainly neuters the westies dreams of energy systems monopoly. Once a country has an abundance of energy and can retain it in public ownership it has a dramatically increased potential to sustain lower cost of living in a much better living environment. The Venetian Vampire Squid must be choking on its own garotte.
Thank you Karl Sanchez, Wonderful news on China's ENERGY RESPONSIBILITY
HOW DOES CHINA PLAN ITS ELECTRICAL PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION (Centralized or Distributed) GRID?
From an Electrical Engineering (consultant to Hydro-Quebec) friend, the biggest loss factor from Central Generating Stations, whether Hydro Dams, Fossil Fuel, Nuclear, Wind, Solar, Bio-methane, Tidal etc is in Electrical Transmission & Transformers after the electricity is produced. When one counts massive loss of Biosphere Photosynthesis & Wildlife generation in Dammed & areas affected by such as Uranium production, refinement, storage (1 million years) for Nuclear or other productive Biosphere losses in Wind & Solar farms, or the millions of miles of transmission line losses across just Turtle-Island / North-America in long & short distance grid distribution, the losses are huge. Colonial Society being enumerate (Violence breeds ignorance), just hasn't done the math compared with local Biosphere based generation of energy, electricity & combined resources.
TRANSMISSION & TRANSFORMERS add up to some 5% loss (EMF shedding, Infrastructure costs, financing & transformer voltage change loss at various levels) per 100 miles = 3.107% loss per 100 kilometres) of the electrical energy produced. Montreal to the James-Bay, La-Grande Hydro Generating station is some 1,400 km = 43.5% loss in a standard Energy Audit.
Transformer losses in multiple Step-Up & Step-Down procedures for Voltage at various grid locations is equal to Transmission losses. When Audit Externalities, such as loss of productive Biosphere, watersheds & land, damage to Wild-Life & Human health & productivity, one can add another 50% loss of electricity originally produced.
'PUSH' Generation, Transmission & Transformer of Electricity from Central Generating Stations, across one way Grids, produce line & system overload at many 10s of 1000s of choke points, inherent to Central Electrical Design.
TOTAL LOSSES = >95% of energy produced at any Central Station, DISTANCE being the largest factor.
COMPLEMENTARY ENERGY Distributed Decentralized Electrical production such as:
1) south-west-&-east-side Building-mounted (Industry, Commercial & Domestic) combined Photo-voltaic & Hot-water for household & industry-use,
2) Building mounted helical linear-axis Wind-Turbines on building wind-shear surfaces (Roof-line & windward building corners concentrate wind at 16 times air speed & density),
3) Fecal aerobic bio-methanization into Natural-gas & Fertilizer plus energy & fertilizer uses of Urine. 3) FECAL, COMPOST ANAEROBIC BIO-METHANIZATION & URINE METHANIZATION to produce Natural-gas & clean fertilizer. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design/5-bio-digestion-toilets
4) Existing Bridge Pylon mounted river, wave, tidal) water-flow Turbines as well as bridge structure mounted, above water, linear-axis helical wind turbines.
5) Embodied energy in the materials, Consumer goods & food waste thrown into our garbage dumps every day, harnessed in Circular Community-Economy at the average ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Apartment, Townhouse & Village) when Separated at source into valuable refined goods, products & resources by community Specialists can lower Mining-damage, Forestry-damage & Petro-exhaustion by over 95%.
6) GREEN ROOFS to capture & filter PRECIPITATION (rain, snow & humidity) on site within each Multihome or Industry building. Diversified distributed essential Water & Energy systems become impervious to source disruption as well as becoming income generators for people, governments & companies. Municipal purification & pumping of both clean water & 10s of 1000s of chemical & bio-solids laden water downstream with ineffective mechanical & chemical treatments is very electricity consumptive as well as water systems toxins destroying to downstream or ocean life.
COMPLEMENTARY ENERGY (Permaculture practice-principle) https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design/9-complementary-energy 1) Less Transmission Loss through:
a) PROXIMITY, is so important to electric system efficiencies. One great cost to solar, wind & other alternative energies is
b) BUILDING-INFRASTRUCTURE. Instead of Placing solar on expensive structures on relatively-distant vacant land, Detroit should consider placing these panels directly upon existing Multihome-Building-complexes (eg. Apartment, Townhouse & Village clustered structures) & still functioning industrial buildings. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing The number of people or businesses served develops a critical-mass, economies-of-scale, where.
c) IN-HOUSE SPECIALISTS can be economically hired to monitor generators & systems. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/2-participatory-accounting
INFRASTRUCTURE DAMAGE SAVINGS All of the above LOCAL HARVESTING of unused solar, wind, water, fecal, urine & materials repair & reuse will stop the damage to such as Solar damage to buildings & infrastructure, Wind-damage to buildings & infrastructure, Water-damage to bridges & away from Toxic Garbage Dump degradation of many 1000s of hectares of land in just Turtle-Island per year. Local strategies produce twice the energy required by any community of people. Every city can be an energy exporter for stable income. When Electric Grids function with electricity produced in distributed, decentralized locations, flowing across multiple grid locations from such as consumer Business, Commerce, Multihomes & Infrastructure, in a Circular-flow fashion, then PUSH & PULL electrical ease of 'flow' greatly increases further reducing losses.
I suppose they use both methods. I’ve never read one or the other.
Thank you Karl, Too bad, we in the west are prisoners of such an unproductive colonial fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') amnesic system. The West could take our lethargic-economy loss, by implementing distributed, decentralized Consumer-based small-local scale & initiative electrical production at 100 million sites, just upon existing building & other infrastructure. We still can from the bottom-up build a truly amazing Circular Electrical flow with next to no foreign or domestic resource extraction & exploitation. The west is captive to Oligarch directed FROZEN FUNDING SYNDROME. DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? web-based Community-Circular Economy software for Multihomes & neighbourhood empowerment, based in the ~100 (50-150) Multihomes where 70% of people live today. Do-we-know-? Begins as intranet Virtual Private Network VPN systems, with internet & web-based advertising for individual & grouped Talents, goods, services, resources & dreams as voluntary PERSONAL DISCLOSURE CHOICES within each ~100 person Multihome & neighbourhood Circular-economy enhancing one's livelihood & community. Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are
Great article, as always Karl I take most everything you write as gospel. I believe I'm a few years older than you and a few years younger than psychohistorian 'n I don't know about you guys but time is flying by like I can't believe!? But these seventies seem to be skipping years and I swear I can't even remember my seventy fifth birthday last summer!? Heck the rest of that year was pretty blurry too. Either you've got a typo, or I'm in the twilight zone?
Michael Hudson has pointed out for 50 years that the US needs an industrial policy. Here in the US, it looks like 2 generations will be held captive to college loan debt. Debt is an asset for the country. $ 1.77 Trillion.
"AI Overview
Yes, for the U.S. government, student loans are considered a significant asset. Specifically, federal student loans are the largest financial asset held by the U.S. Treasury, according to the Federal Reserve. While student loan debt represents a liability for the individual borrowers, it is an asset for the government because the government is the lender and expects repayment with interest. "
Many of the dams that were built by Reclamation during the 30s-1950s will begin turning 100 years old and their equipment will need modernization. Many are now owned by private corps like PG&E. Oops!
However the Chinese use fossil fuel generation to build all this stuff. They are still adding more output in kWh terms in conventional generation than renewables. They are not stupid they realise that it's about having excess energy that fuels growth in the economy. So it's not about 'becoming green' it's about harnessing all and every type of energy.
Whilst Europe energy output declined and the US struggles to increase their's , China and to a lesser extent Russia steams ahead.
China’s build-up of renewables will allow them to retire older energy generation with the aim being Fusion and space-based solar. China’s energy vision is very well laid out to 2060 and beyond.
There is a problem with reliance on so called renewables and nukes ( whether fusion or fission). They are all 'must run' baseload. To operate any electricity grid you need mid-merit power stations, those that load follow, one's you can turn up and down , minute by minute, sometimes seconds by seconds. Otherwise when you try to turn on that kettle or computer or anything else, it won't work, because the supply couldn't follow the demand. Batteries cannot and never will ( basic physics) be able to do this. Some people dream of nukes that will be able to do this, I for one will be no where near where this is tried out. Nope the only way to boil the big kettle to get the steam to turn the lump of metal to create an instant magnetic field that we call 'electricity' is to burn another lump of coal or up the knob on the gas burner. Not even the Chinese will get round this one.