China is winning the race towards Type 1 Civilization — and we haven't even realized it yet.

By 2030, China will have industrial capacity to build, every year, the equivalent of all energy generation in the U.S., just with solar and storage.

The flow of energy is what drives physical changes in the world. Controlling that flow is having power. The sunlight that reaches the Earth is 10,000 times more potent than all human energy sources combined.

This is the Space Race of the 21st century, with the potential to take humanity into an era of unprecedented abundance — but also to radically change the global balance of power.

The West needs to wake up and understand that building infrastructure for solar production on the scale of terawatts (TW) and batteries on the scale of terawatt-hours (TWh) is not just about climate change.

Sunlight represents over 99.9% of the Earth’s energy budget. The tools that capture this energy are the keys to planetary-scale power.

This is a race we cannot afford to ignore.