This administration is just itching to turn the USA into one of those shit hole countries as they call them. The rest of the world is fine watching the empire implode as they will do just fine without it.

Anyone saying nuclear is cheap needs to show their analysis. There are no examples of nuclear being cheaper than today's solar and wind power. Nuke plants have all been subsidized in multiple ways to make them viable. Todays and tomorrows taxpayers take the hit. Generations will be stuck with managing waste from shuttered plants along with taking on the debt handed.
Another issue is the timeline. By the time any new nuclear plant is operational we will be deep into climate change. Solar and wind can be deployed quickly. In order to delay climate effects we need green energy now.

I used to go to movie houses a lot. The always-on cell phone culture has normalized inconsiderate behavior. I also used to go to a lot of concerts and cells have ruined that experience as well. At the start of Covid got a big ass TV. I'll still go to a movie or a concert, but it better be really good.

RISC-V and its successors as an architecture perform better than x86 and ARM. Current chips are only slower because they don't use the latest fabs yet. If the west does not advance RISC-V just to be different then China will have an edge.

We got a PDP-8 in 1969 and had programmable calculators before that. We might have been the third. Before the calculators a group of us built a logic plugboard using relays, plugs, and switches from a friend's dad owned a small factory that supplied AT&T. I helped take gear to teacher's conferences for demos. Our DEC sales rep invited us to use demo machines at the regional sales offices. Myself and a friend visited several times and used a bunch of early PDPs. They had shelves of manuals and let us take any we wanted; which we devoured. Years later, got a job at DEC. I have a great deal of gratitude to the teachers that convinced the school board to fund this.

We can't trust clown presidents with the nuclear codes. We better give them to an AI bot.

You're right that alternatives are profitable and so the same applies to the USA. Their politicians at all levels should be doing all that is reasonable to support it. Instead they and are doing their country a disservice by selling out to donors in an expensive outdated fossil fuel industry. Their followers and NIMBYs are also blocking alternatives at the local and state level.

Slaves making EVs is made up troll material. Slave labor is limited to assembly of small products (e.g. phones). There are plenty of EV factory tour videos in China. Lots of robots and and clean room technicians; especially for batteries. The advantage they have over the USA is that they can make high performing LFP EV batteries. The only thing that will help is for the USA to step up its battery game; which is happening this year.

The land is more valuable than the houses. Individuals or the state can buy bankrupt land and replace expensive homes with low cost housing. That way if it burns again the replacement cost will be more reasonable than the true cost of insurance. People are already starting to do this in FL and CA on their own.

The USA needs CATL's best in class battery technology and they are willing to license it to Ford, Tesla, and others. Blocking them with sanctions and tariffs will not help the USA catch up in the race to develop an EV production capability. Instead the USA will continue to fall behind. This is just sad to watch.

So a bunch of psycho-billionaires are going to run the simulated world too. Can't wait.

The USA has plenty of Lithium in Utah and Georgia. Miners are on track for production in 2027. New battery plants under construction in the USA should go online in 2026. The plants will need imported lithium for that first year, but demand growth will only be beginning. They will also need best in class LMFP chemistries developed by China. Their IP and cooperation is the gating item for 2025 and local/state/federal politicians could easily mess that up.

A 400MW solar farm costs half a billion to build. Nuclear power is absurdly expensive. The rest is noise.

Nissan's R&D group has actually been very good over the years. It's management that botched things up beyond belief. If they merge they need to dump the management and merge the R&D group with Honda's.

It is very early in the transition to EVs. Over the next year several EV battery plants will go online in the USA. Some will use CATL/BYD battery IP, but they will be built in the USA. Meanwhile new battery chemistries developed in the USA are in the prototyping stage and could outperform batteries from China.