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[–] 90 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

Dude awesome. I mean you gotta hand it to them. Killing it with affordable electric cars, solar panels and now this. It’s a step in the right direction, and that’s more than you could say about UK

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I care little about that at this point to be honest with you ...

    The alternative is that these innovating companies would have milked the IP and/or shelved it if it means more money, fuck the people, fuck the environment, etc etc etc

    If China's IP theft brings the green revolution we knew we needed 50 years ago but the innovators sabotaged for profit, I'd consider China the robin Hood of the story

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    China files more patents than the next nine countries combined: https://www.wipo.int/en/ipfactsandfigures/patents

    China is first country to hold over 4 million domestic patents

    The number of China's domestic valid patents does not include those held in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I agree however there is only 1 but and that’s the fact that the labor costs are much lower in China than in the West. Still a great job by China.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    We're putting in tones of wind power. The problem is the weird linking of electricity prices to gas prices and the fact we don't have anywhere near the energy storage capacity we need. So we end up paying wind farm operators to shut down turbines and generate less when its extra windy.

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