{"id":47612,"date":"2022-10-13T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=47612"},"modified":"2022-10-13T09:39:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:39:49","slug":"giving-away-important-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=47612","title":{"rendered":"Giving Away Important Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, The Daily Wire<\/a> reported that the Department of Energy’s Inspector General is investigating why the Biden administration gave promising green energy technology to China instead of creating manufacturing jobs in America.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The Department of Energy\u2019s Inspector General is reviewing why the Joe Biden administration gave promising battery technology, developed by taxpayer dollars, to a Chinese company instead of making the batteries in the U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n

China<\/a> is now reportedly building one of the largest battery grids in the world using the technology, which could store huge amounts of solar energy without degrading over time or requiring lithium, mitigating a major environmental impact of current green technology that ends up in landfills.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

In 2021, there was an \u201cillicit Department of Energy (DOE) transfer of a fifteen million dollar, taxpayer-funded advanced battery technology to China,\u201d Sens. John Barrasso (R-WY) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) wrote in a letter<\/a> to the DOE\u2019s internal watchdog.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The company that received the license \u201cplainly stated on their official website that they planned to manufacture the batteries in China,\u201d even though the license included \u201ca requirement that the batteries be \u2018substantially manufactured\u2019 in the U.S. As these stipulations were continuously violated, DOE never raised any concern,\u201d they wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are concerned that this is an overt dereliction of duty by DOE, and that this case may be emblematic of a department that routinely and flippantly permits government-funded technology to be transferred to China,\u201d the senators concluded.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article explains exactly what happened:<\/p>\n

In 2017, Yang (Gary Yang, one of the scientists who helped develop the technology, so that he could commercialize it) \u2014 an American citizen who was born in China \u2014 obtained a sublicense from the DOE to allow a Chinese firm to make the batteries. In 2021, he transferred the license outright to a Dutch company called Vanadis Power, which said it would make the batteries in China but eventually move production to Europe to comply with European rules.<\/strong><\/p>\n

America had those rules too, but seemed less strict about enforcing them. On July 7, 2021, UniEnergy emailed a government manager at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to request approval to transfer the license to Vanadis, and within 90 minutes, the government granted approval, even though Vanadis\u2019 website said it would make the batteries in China.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unnamed DOE officials told NPR they often rely on \u201cgood faith disclosures\u201d \u2014 in other words, the honor system<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would love to see a list of Americans who are in some way involved in the finances of the Chinese company involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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