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The Electrostate, China’s Grid and the Physics of Power
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9 min read
Space is big. So begins Douglas Adams’ famous meditation on scale in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. “You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” China’s electricity grid is like…
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He Who Controls the Silicon
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10 min read
Frank Herbert’s Dune gave us a universe where a single resource—the spice mélange—determined the fate of civilizations. Control the spice, control interstellar travel. Control interstellar travel, control everything. Swap spice for silicon wafers, Arrakis for Jiangsu Province, and you’ve got a decent map of what’s happening in solar manufacturing today. China doesn’t just produce solar…
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