Originally Posted by
gerv
Have to say this: there are some aspects of Chinese culture that are light years ahead of US culture. I'm pretty sure they can figure this stuff out... We shouldn't necessarily figure they are following a path blazed by the West.
I agree. China seems to show every indication that it will at least TRY to leapfrog over inefficient and unhealthy technologies such as ICE powered automobiles and coal fired electricity generation. We should be developing these technologies in the US in the short period of technological superiority that's left to us.