Japan

“So aviation represents somewhere in the range of two to three percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. If it were a country, its emissions would rank around sixth in the world, somewhere between Japan and Germany.”

“In fact, we identified, you know, these types of places exactly. Singapore, Japan, you know, highest electricity prices of today. As a good first market for fusion.”

“Actually liquefied hydrogen is already being transported between Australia and Japan.”

“Japan is going to be putting ammonia into its steel mills”

“Essentially this was a bone that was thrown to Tesla. Because Tesla makes its battery cells in North America with Panasonic. It makes some of its materials in North America. The electrolyte is made here, the separator, the cans, some other things are made in N…”

“So roughly China consumes 12 to 15 to thirteen million tons of copper per year. The U.S. Around one point into two million tons. And then Germany, Japan, and developed nations consume roughly a million tons per year.”

“There have been a lot of deals being signed by a certain number of European countries, Japan, Korea, with potential exporters of hydrogen, but China has been relatively absent of all those deals.”

“When you are looking at, you know, the Japanese hydrogen strategy, they do envisage to use that combined with coal. So right now they are looking at coal firing with 20% of ammonia, and this is why it could be potentially a bigger market for ammonia.”

“Well, the data suggests, actually, that workers in South Korea and Japan and Europe, they make more than Americans, and yet the ships are still significantly cheaper, so that's interesting.”

“Part of the mistake they made is they never had like a really competitive software industry. So when we have this shift going from a mechanical gas car to something that's more electrical and software driven to something that have AI in the future, they don't …”

“China has, in quick succession, blown past Japan and the United States, especially because the U.S. Had been on a downward trajectory, and then past the EU in terms of oil imports, and it imports, like, more than thirteen million barrels a day as of twenty-twe…”

“China exported 6.4 million vehicles last year five and a half million passenger cars. Two million of those were electric vehicles. This is far above any other country's export capability. You know, it's more than Japan exports. It's more than Germany exports. …”

“For the first three quarters of last year about 42% of all passenger vehicle manufacturing is in China last year. That's higher than the ratio for Japan ever was back in its heyday.”

“Like in some areas, it is like 200,000 dollars, like per megawatt, with a service called FCR in Tokyo.”

“Japan and Korea in a slight panic have already committed to a much faster build out of renewables to get away from gas as quickly as possible. Almost all of their gas is imported LNG.”