Really? What nation are you from because America has NOT benefitted from any trade deals, outside of NAFTA, while the other nations manipulate their money and put on backdoor tariffs.

Not likely. Other nations such as china have implemented 'consumption tax', for all goods, which is then forgiven on locally produced goods.

Was this not invented by a limey that got upset at the west for not looking at it, so took it to china? Or was that something else?

That many nations are already working towards this. It is far far cheaper to build automated weapons than to turn humans into effective fighting machines. In addition, small nations will see this as opportunity to compete against west, china, or Russia. Heck, Syria used chem weapons on their citizens and then they and russia cut a deal with the west to remove all chem weapons. However, once ISIS took over several locations, Syria admitted that they and Russia were lying and ISIS now has chem weaps.

Think about what I wrote. Currently, unsubsidized solar is expensive to put in. So, the builder has a choice of lowering HVAC energy demands and installing less solar, OR simply installing a lot more panels. Builders will find it cheaper to install more insulation, use aerogel windows for places like basement, bathrooms, maybe bedrooms, etc. Likewise, they will switch over to using geo-thermal HVAC, esp if house is well insulated. In time, aerogel windows and geo-thermal HVAC will become so cheap that older homes will switch.

We need to drop the subsidies and simply say that all buildings less than 6 stories are to have enough on-site AE to equal the energy used for the HVAC (and require AC as well). In addition, the local utility must buy any daily extra at the maximum price that it costs them to buy electricity from elsewhere.

If she gets that passed, then not only will it put a stop to energy growth, but it will pretty much encourage cheaper buildings, and storage mechanism.

8-10% of France's electricity comes from Fossil fuel. They can easily kill these off with AE, combined with Nukes. In addition, by pushing for EVs, they can quit importing oil, since they are one of Europe's largest oil importers.

not everybody thinks that Americans are assholes. Just idiotic cowards like you.

the meme of Germany importing comes from the far right in America.
You will find that their emails are constantly full of lies.

hard to tally it up, when the means keep being shifted.
For example, they were supposed to use up nearly all of the nuclear 'waste', but was then stopped from breeding.
Then the far left fights against burying the 'waste' over at Yucca Mntn.
The smart thing is for us to push Gen IV reactors to burn it up, but we need to make it so that once a site is approved, then the protests and BS stop.

Yes, I fully understand that the CURRENT approach to wireless is horrible.
It does not mean that in the future a new, and better way will not be found.

In addition, wireless like I suggest here, would make a huge difference and be of great value.

Eos energy is a flow battery ( they have nothing to do with eestor ). In addition, multiple utilities are now testing the batteries.

Seriously, wireless on mobile is silly. It is easy enough to plug it in.
Focus should be on things like robotics, construction equipment, etc. Basically, the ability to beam energy 1 KM all the way up to 200 KM is a HUGE thing, and worth loads of money.

disposal of current nuke waste, would be a TRUE waste of money.
This waste can be re-processed and used in gen IV reactors for 100 years and leave only 5% of the volume and with only 200 years of it being unsafe.

Sadly, the far left and their fear of science and ignorance of economics continue to push for wasting our money.

actually, most conservatives that I know, believe that we need to bring taxes up. Hell, an ex-GOP senator just went in front of both federal houses saying that fuel taxes NEED to be raised and infrastructure needs to be increased.
A GOOD conservative is opposed to running DEFICIT and DEBT. 'Conservatives' that are opposed to taxes to the point where we run massive deficits is not conservative and is just an idiot.

In addition, a number on the left support nukes. Sadly, not the right ones. The idiot lefts in CONgress are the ones killing off nukes here. Of course, the European greens are just as stupid.