Privatizing the US national helium reserve. Gonna laugh when in a few years the government of another nation ends up owning it. Helium is dwindling finite resource that key technological infrastructure relies upon.
Privatizing the US national helium reserve. Gonna laugh when in a few years the government of another nation ends up owning it. Helium is dwindling finite resource that key technological infrastructure relies upon.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1114964240/new-battery-technology-china-vanadium
A bunch of scrappy engineers made a next generation battery and sold the technology to the US government
The government never bothered to manufacture anything. Instead they sold everything to China and now they’re already releasing public versions of the batteries. Now the US doesn’t have any knowledge on the batteries or even the factories to build them
hilariously based
The story is a trip
Every dumb and evil thing in amerikkka can ultimately be traced back to capitalist greed
Every dumb and evil thing in
amerikkkathe whole world can ultimately be traced back to capitalist greeddeleted by creator
Many such cases