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Founding partner Stellar Solar. Board member GENI. Passionate about #renewables. Committed to "global energy grid" reality. See also @TerraWatts@mastodon.energy

Jun 20, 2018, 5 tweets

Reminder: While U.S. is arresting adults and abusing kids from Central America, China is pledging to invest $38 Billion to rebuild SA power grid, incl new #solar, #wind generation - goo.gl/uTx2VV #climatechange

Money quote: "We can install a (transmission line) that can send (#solar and #wind power) where it needs to go. We could even send it all the way to the U.S." goo.gl/uTx2VV - #renewables

Ironically, this was precisely the strategy of "Connect the Americas 2022" program launched by Secy State @HillaryClinton under @BarackObama in 2012 - goo.gl/A9htzY - #climatechange #RenewableEnergy

Aimed at "universal access to electricity by the year 2022" the project's goal was linking electrical #grids throughout the hemisphere from Canada all the way down to the southern tip of Chile - goo.gl/4aBfYz - #supergrid #HVDC

Time will tell which strategy succeeds -- armed intimidation or improving quality of life -- but China's "One Belt, One Road" initiative looks more like "a world that works for everyone" -- a goal the U.S. historically supported - goo.gl/WruwyS - #OBOR --END/

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