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

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

The flow of energy is what drives physical changes in the world. Controlling that flow is power. The sunlight that reaches Earth is 10,000 times more powerful 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 balance of global power.

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

Sunlight represents more than 99.9% of the Earth's energy budget. The tools that capture this energy are the keys to power at a planetary scale.

This is a race we cannot afford to ignore.