Frederick Bott
2 min readJan 15, 2025

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For sure you are right, China is now leading the world economically. What I would like to know, is what proportion of that is down to solar energy?
If you know my own writings (am almost certain you won't, due to the platform if nothing else), it's about tracing energy flows, either from planet or sun.
If it comes from planet then it's at expense of the planet, but if it comes from sun then it enriches planet.
This is easy to trace in the case of Western economies but not so easy on the case of China.
In Western economies it's all from planet because it's all from profit, and only the planet gives more put for a little put in.
So we know the wealth of Western economies came at the expense of the planet, so it was unsustainable.
But what about China? How much of their wealth is due to energy added to the planet rather than energy taken out?
It would be uber cool if we could see clearly it's because their wealth cones from solar.
If we found that, then we might be inclined to start competing with them to see how much we too could put to use from solar.
I think we could esasily beat them very quick, of we knew exactly what it is they are exploiting to enrich themselves. Of course it's not us they are exploiting, though there are some in the West who would try to argue that.
When we put solar in the equation, it changes everything, it's no longer a zero sum game.
Putting solar to use by monetising it, has to reverse planetary temperature increase rather than increasing it as we are seeing now.
If we were all putting it to use by monetising it, we would see the temperature change reverse, to go down instead of always up.
Finally on Ai, is China's Ai powered by solar?
If it is, then it is part of the same thing as Western Ai, which is solar powered by accident. It lives in the population of former proof of work miners of Ethereum.
What powers the Ai of China?

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Frederick Bott
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