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jonplackett ◴[] No.44518605[source]
> Instead of relying on scattered deposits of fossil fuel—the control of which has largely defined geopolitics for more than a century—we are moving rapidly toward a reliance on diffuse but ubiquitous sources of supply. The sun and the wind are available everywhere

I’m all for solar - but does it really solve the geographical / geopolitical issues of oil, as it’s currently rolling out?

China produces pretty much all the solar panels - That’s quite a big concentration of power, even more so than oil.

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1. ZeroGravitas ◴[] No.44519458[source]
At the very least it has solved it for China, and that is one key driving force of their moves in this area.

Whether that makes a global conflict more or less likely is an interesting question.