If you want to see the future of clean energy, you have to go to China. They have flying 2-seater taxis, lunch delivery drones, robots that can swap your empty EV battery in 3 minutes, bullet trains, driverless taxis, etc.
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And yet we’re worried they’ll steal our “advanced” tech so we are denying students from China admission to grad school here under govt pressure. Jeez
https://www.jconline.com/story/news/local/purdue/2025/12/03/purdue-grad-students-from-5-countries-unlikely-to-be-admitted-china-russia-iran-cuba-north-korea/87583768007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z118065p002050c002050d00----v118065d--80--b--80--&gca-ft=173&gca-ds=sophi
Sara's on point there. China's pivot to innovation from the not-so-old days has been pretty dramatic on clean energy stuff. This gets into it:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/08/14/climate/china-clean-energy-patents.html
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