The following post from veteran educator and activist Mike Klonsky discusses the Trump administration’s relentless attack on green energy and its doubling down on fossil fuel production. Mike notes that Trump has “axed renewable energy tax credits, grants, and loans provided by the Biden administration. He has also made it more difficult to obtain authorisations for wind and solar projects and imposed restrictions on companies whose supply chains are heavily reliant on Chinese companies.”
Klonsky surmises that the reason for the US’s abandonment of even the pretence of trying to avoid climate breakdown is the fact that China is so far ahead in renewable energy and other sustainable technologies.
China is sprinting ahead in the clean, renewable energy race—installing more solar in a single month than the US does in a year. By mid-2025, it had added nearly 200 GW of renewables in five months. The US? Mired in rollback threats, tariffs, fossil subsidies, and culture war distractions…
The empire sees China’s dominance and decides the race isn’t worth running. So it torches the track, poisons the crowd, and calls it patriotism.
The article concludes with an interesting note about how China is pioneering paradigm-shifting technology: an airborne wind turbine capable of generating one megawatt at 1,500 metres altitude, offering huge potential for providing energy to remote and disaster-stricken areas.
While the US debates conspiracy theories about whales and rolls back clean energy incentives, China is deploying floating megawatt turbines that could power disaster zones and leapfrog traditional grid limitations.
AI won’t solve our energy crisis. In many ways, it makes things worse. Right now, it’s a double-edged blade. The race to build more data centers is triggering regional energy shortages, particularly in hubs like Northern Virginia, which now consumes electricity equivalent to that of 800,000 homes.
Meanwhile, AI—sold as the savior of everything—is quietly devouring the grid. Data centers now rival cities in terms of electricity use, and their exponential growth is driven by fossil-fuel-heavy infrastructure. The irony? Wind and solar could stabilize that demand. But Trump’s fossil-first agenda ensures AI’s expansion deepens the crisis it claims to solve.
“We don’t allow windmills,” Trump said. “We’re not allowing any windmills to go up unless there’s a legal situation where somebody committed to it a long time ago.”
Trump’s bizarre obsession with the supposed evils of windmills has expanded into an assault on renewable energy unlike anything we have seen before from even the most conservative Republican administrations; according to one estimate, his policies have led to the cancellation of $19 billion in clean energy projects this year. (Financial Times)
He’s axed renewable energy tax credits, grants, and loans provided by the Biden administration. He has also made it more difficult to obtain authorizations for wind and solar projects and imposed restrictions on companies whose supply chains are heavily reliant on Chinese companies.
His muse in all this is none other than his know-nothing U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr., Trump’s number-one ass kisser, who claims that wind power is too expensive and kills whales.
RFK Jr. wants you to believe offshore wind farms are slaughtering whales and bankrupting the grid. The numbers? He claims that 160 dead whales have been found in two years. The culprit? Renewable energy. But NOAA—the actual scientists tracking marine deaths—say there’s zero evidence linking wind development to whale deaths. The real threats? Ship strikes, fishing gear, and climate-driven prey shifts. But those don’t fit the anti-renewable narrative.
As for wind being “the most expensive energy”? Offshore wind is more expensive to build than onshore wind, but it offers higher capacity factors and more consistent energy output. And wind’s price is dropping fast, especially with federal backing and tech gains.
This isn’t an environmental concern—it’s Don Quixote syndrome.
His perceived number one competitor, China, is so far ahead in the clean energy race that Trump has given up.
When the Empire Can’t Win the Future, It Sabotages It.
China is sprinting ahead in the clean, renewable energy race—installing more solar in a single month than the U.S. does in a year. By mid-2025, it had added nearly 200 GW of renewables in five months. The U.S.? Mired in rollback threats, tariffs, fossil subsidies, and culture war distractions.
Trump’s camp isn’t trying to catch up. They’ve pivoted to sabotage—gutting clean energy incentives, reviving oil leases, and weaponizing environmental rhetoric to stall offshore wind. RFK Jr.’s whale hysteria isn’t about marine life; it’s a proxy war against progress. When the facts don’t favor fossil fuels, they manufacture fear.
This isn’t about good policy—it’s about narrative warfare. The empire sees China’s dominance and decides the race isn’t worth running. So it torches the track, poisons the crowd, and calls it patriotism.
Latest news out of China
Chinese scientists, led by Beijing SAWES Energy Technology Company in collaboration with Tsinghua University and the Aerospace Information Research Institute, are preparing to flight-test the world’s first megawatt-level airborne wind turbine system.
Design: It looks like an airship but acts like a windmill—using a helium-filled aerostat to lift lightweight power generation equipment to altitudes around 1,500 meters.
Power Output: The S1500 system is expected to generate 1 megawatt, over 30 times more powerful than previous airborne systems.
Efficiency: At high altitudes, wind speeds are up to three times faster, producing up to 27 times more power than ground-level turbines.
Use Cases: Ideal for disaster relief, remote islands, and off-grid oilfields, where conventional infrastructure is impractical.
That’s not just a breakthrough—it’s a paradigm shift in wind energy. While the U.S. debates conspiracy theories about whales and rolls back clean energy incentives, China is deploying floating megawatt turbines that could power disaster zones and leapfrog traditional grid limitations.
