[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @JessePeltan Jesse Peltan Jesse Peltan is discussing the US and China's energy landscape, highlighting China's rapid growth in solar energy. China now generates more electricity from solar than the US and India, with its solar capacity doubling every two years. The US is being left behind, with Peltan suggesting that America's inaction and regulatory hurdles are hindering its ability to compete in the global energy market. ### Engagements: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1123808797556920325/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXXX +6,288% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX -XXXX% - X Months XXXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +7,212% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1123808797556920325/posts_active)  - X Week XX +73% - X Month XXX -XX% - X Months XXXXX +133% - X Year XXXXX +114% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1123808797556920325/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +2.90% - X Month XXXXXX +4.40% - X Months XXXXXX +29% - X Year XXXXXX +556% ### CreatorRank: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1123808797556920325/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) #284 [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [solar](/topic/solar) #4, [china](/topic/china) #12, [gas](/topic/gas) #870, [the world](/topic/the-world) #4655, [elon musk](/topic/elon-musk) #1748, [civilization](/topic/civilization) #268, [the first](/topic/the-first) #2892, [half of](/topic/half-of) 3.7%, [metal](/topic/metal) 3.7%, [if you](/topic/if-you) XXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@rustyroad](/creator/undefined) [@phipho](/creator/undefined) [@cmarie505](/creator/undefined) [@guzzak](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@godzillee_](/creator/undefined) [@remindme_ofthis](/creator/undefined) [@mattnonymous091](/creator/undefined) [@marcus_x_shaw](/creator/undefined) [@tigam__](/creator/undefined) [@notoriousianv](/creator/undefined) [@chicosueco](/creator/undefined) [@befaster4fun](/creator/undefined) [@efficiencylast](/creator/undefined) [@rheiji1](/creator/undefined) [@nate8499](/creator/undefined) [@seamant](/creator/undefined) [@cryptox0r](/creator/undefined) [@robotbeat](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)](/topic/tesla) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "If we built solar at this rate U.S. electricity generation would double in X years. We're building 1/10th as fast now" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2001410646412243062) 2025-12-17T21:54Z 65.3K followers, 27.3K engagements "@elonmusk Its flat out the best thing you can drive and you dont even have to" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2001912313566367933) 2025-12-19T07:07Z 65.3K followers, 5617 engagements "The U.S. is SO much sunnier than Europe. Even Canada is sunny by comparison" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1997848629072339299) 2025-12-08T02:00Z 65.3K followers, 168.8K engagements "Exports are only XX% of China's GDP. The U.S. is XX% of that (3%). The Chinese domestic market is way bigger than people realize" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2000290283846607284) 2025-12-14T19:42Z 65.3K followers, 14M engagements "America is going to need so many batteries" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2001918858312216981) 2025-12-19T07:33Z 65.3K followers, 133.1K engagements "Grid scale battery storage is not "battery backup." Batteries are active assets that improve the utilization of other parts of the grid. An hour of battery storage at the level of a few percent of peak demand can provide ancillary services that free up thermal generation to serve load. A few hours of battery storage at the level of tens of percent can smooth out demand improve thermal generation utilization and improve T&D utilization. (peak shaving) Colocated battery storage with solar or wind lets you put more renewable generation on the same grid connection. A solar farm typically averages" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1778096253269692721) 2024-04-10T16:22Z 64.5K followers, 30.2K engagements "This hasnt gotten even X% of the attention it deserves. Massively underrated product" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1968761651919745496) 2025-09-18T19:38Z 65K followers, 1.5M engagements "Nevada and Texas had the largest decrease in real electricity prices. In both cases: - growth - coal - gas switching - expansion of resources with no fuel cost (solar & wind) This is not a coincidence" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1999946169976541620) 2025-12-13T20:54Z 64.5K followers, 24.3K engagements "Solar grew more in the last X years than gas has in the last XX. That's in absolute terms (TWh)" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1999953316697268705) 2025-12-13T21:23Z 64.5K followers, 43.6K engagements "It is so funny that they chose that image for the article. LONGi's cell is black with the metal contacts on the back (to absorb more light). This is like writing an article about the Model S Plaid doing 0-60 in X seconds and showing the tailpipe of a 2008 Honda Civic" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2000315452673724674) 2025-12-14T21:22Z 64.5K followers, 21.4K engagements "@RoninD0je87 @elonmusk Robotaxis being cheaper than Ubers (or even driving your own car) is what will get people to convert" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2001044806269628428) 2025-12-16T21:40Z 64.9K followers, 14.8K engagements "There are going to be hundreds of moments like this when Optimus learns new trades. Training will take time and then suddenly there are millions of new skilled workers available in yet another field" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2000307879400579153) 2025-12-14T20:52Z 65.2K followers, 42.7K engagements "why dont we reopen the coal plants Theyre still open. They run on gas now" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2001667178475454797) 2025-12-18T14:53Z 65.2K followers, 4501 engagements "Making electricity expensive is a terrible idea if you actually care about climate change" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2001758773010989477) 2025-12-18T20:57Z 65.2K followers, 14.3K engagements "It is X p.m. on December 20th and solar is supplying 1/3 of Texas's electricity" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2002485610867818844) 2025-12-20T21:05Z 65.3K followers, 375.9K engagements "If God wanted us to build Type X Civilization he would have: X. put a giant fusion reactor in the sky (emitting blackbody radiation around 5800 K) X. made XX% of Earth's crust out of a semiconductor with a matching bandgap (1.1 eV or so) X. filled the oceans with an alkali metal we could use to store limitless quantities of energy (sodium or something similar) That would be a crazy coincidence" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1773117659049079220) 2024-03-27T22:39Z 65.3K followers, 3.9M engagements "China's electricity per capita is up XXX% Ours is down X% Yeah we've had some energy efficiency gains and that's great but we need more electricity. We should be building industrial capacity and electrifying our economy" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1923612698253668683) 2025-05-17T05:33Z 65.3K followers, 2.9M engagements "@kimbal They dont understand" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1935102170904543746) 2025-06-17T22:28Z 65.3K followers, 35.8M engagements "Solar in China generated 1/3 as much as *all* U.S. generation last month. And its doubling every X years" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1935854611342245975) 2025-06-20T00:18Z 65.3K followers, 27.3M engagements "ATTN: U.S. POLICYMAKERS" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1961568029050814944) 2025-08-29T23:13Z 65.3K followers, 26.3M engagements "Solar was 3/4 of the growth in electricity supply in both China and the U.S. in the last XX months. The difference is that China is growing 4x faster" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1988427201772245459) 2025-11-12T02:02Z 65.3K followers, 546.9K engagements "China is the majority of electricity growth on Earth. 3/4 of new supply is solar. That's the case globally in China in the U.S. basically everywhere" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1989006026520080519) 2025-11-13T16:22Z 65.3K followers, 32M engagements "China's electricity is now XX% more than Europe's PER CAPITA. More than double in total" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1989018572127896045) 2025-11-13T17:12Z 65.3K followers, 27.6M engagements "Even if we disassembled the rocky planets converted them into fusion reactors and fueled them with the gas giants we still couldn't hold a candle to the Sun" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1990824836260626739) 2025-11-18T16:50Z 65.3K followers, 1M engagements "Chinas electricity consumption has grown by more than: - X India in X years - X EU in X years - X U.S. in XX years" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1992315580573995507) 2025-11-22T19:33Z 65.3K followers, 1.7M engagements "I think solar power is going to be a really big deal. In 2007 solar was XXXX% of global electricity. It's now X% and growing faster than any other source EVER has" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1992779166828396612) 2025-11-24T02:15Z 65.3K followers, 1.3M engagements "Chinese EVs are going to flood the global market. Western automakers and oil companies are not prepared" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1999960407864393874) 2025-12-13T21:51Z 65.3K followers, 876.2K engagements "China is *all* of the growth in global electricity per person" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1999965387115450849) 2025-12-13T22:11Z 65.3K followers, 2M engagements "China is building more nuclear than the rest of the world combined and still all those reactors will generate less electricity than the solar China installed in the *first half* of this year" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1999972611145797713) 2025-12-13T22:40Z 65.3K followers, 278.1K engagements "@Humble_Reminder XX% of Chinese exports go to the U.S. Chinese exports to the U.S. are XX% of XX% of Chinese GDP" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2000367005325574354) 2025-12-15T00:47Z 65.3K followers, 66.4K engagements "The fact that Ford still thinks the reason to make EVs is to reduce emissions tells you how little legacy auto understands this paradigm shift. Autonomy is a tidal wave. Once cars are autonomous the operational costs of combustion vehicles become completely untenable. Reducing emissions will be a side effect. Electric vehicles are a fundamentally better platform for autonomy. This is like investing in new whaling ships after the commercialization of incandescent lights" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2001037676783272236) 2025-12-16T21:12Z 65.3K followers, 587.7K engagements "If you tried to run Type X Civilization on fossil fuels you would use up all the oxygen in Earths atmosphere in just X years. You cannot climb the Kardashev scale without solar. The Kardashev scale *IS* solar" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2001055060374012160) 2025-12-16T22:21Z 65.3K followers, 32.8K engagements "Oil is very expensive and being dependent on oil imports is very risky. Much of the world will never have significant levels of combustion cars. EVs are inevitable" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2001421906885427276) 2025-12-17T22:39Z 65.3K followers, 12.6K engagements "Giant battery on wheels. Underappreciated" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2001425677745107264) 2025-12-17T22:54Z 65.3K followers, 16.4K engagements "A well made EV with a quiet interior is so useful for taking calls on the road. I do need to get a Starlink for dead zones though" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2001758269317222561) 2025-12-18T20:55Z 65.3K followers, 22.7K engagements "Mathematically illiterate doomerslop. 5k likes" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2001810472010682563) 2025-12-19T00:23Z 65.3K followers, 56.8K engagements "The Cybertruck has ruined all other cars for me. The steering is so good that anything else feels archaic" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2001911210292429261) 2025-12-19T07:03Z 65.3K followers, 7.4M engagements "@RustyRoad Everyone whos tried mine has said theyd buy a cyber SUV" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2001912085920518384) 2025-12-19T07:06Z 65.3K followers, 13K engagements "China has grown by over XXX TWh in the past XX months. Coal is down XX TWh" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2002255138312826977) 2025-12-20T05:49Z 65.3K followers, 10.3M engagements "Its not enough that we have to subsidize soybeans in the U.S. Its not enough that we have to subsidize soybeans that we sell to China. We somehow have to convince China to buy more of our subsidized soybeans than THEY want to. Have we considered that maybe we just shouldnt have XX million acres of soy monoculture" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2001162138765623772) 2025-12-17T05:26Z 65.3K followers, 86.3K engagements "@JoshuaCrager1" [X Link](https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/2002538209499341134) 2025-12-21T00:34Z 65.3K followers, 1417 engagements
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Jesse Peltan is discussing the US and China's energy landscape, highlighting China's rapid growth in solar energy. China now generates more electricity from solar than the US and India, with its solar capacity doubling every two years. The US is being left behind, with Peltan suggesting that America's inaction and regulatory hurdles are hindering its ability to compete in the global energy market.
Engagements: XXXXXXXXX #
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- X Month XXXXXXXXXX -XXXX%
- X Months XXXXXXXXXXX -XX%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +7,212%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XX +73%
- X Month XXX -XX%
- X Months XXXXX +133%
- X Year XXXXX +114%
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- X Week XXXXXX +2.90%
- X Month XXXXXX +4.40%
- X Months XXXXXX +29%
- X Year XXXXXX +556%
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Social Influence
Social category influence countries #284 celebrities XXXX% automotive brands XXXX% stocks XXX% finance XXXX%
Social topic influence solar #4, china #12, gas #870, the world #4655, elon musk #1748, civilization #268, the first #2892, half of 3.7%, metal 3.7%, if you XXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @elonmusk @rustyroad @phipho @cmarie505 @guzzak @grok @godzillee_ @remindme_ofthis @mattnonymous091 @marcus_x_shaw @tigam__ @notoriousianv @chicosueco @befaster4fun @efficiencylast @rheiji1 @nate8499 @seamant @cryptox0r @robotbeat
Top assets mentioned Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"If we built solar at this rate U.S. electricity generation would double in X years. We're building 1/10th as fast now"
X Link 2025-12-17T21:54Z 65.3K followers, 27.3K engagements
"@elonmusk Its flat out the best thing you can drive and you dont even have to"
X Link 2025-12-19T07:07Z 65.3K followers, 5617 engagements
"The U.S. is SO much sunnier than Europe. Even Canada is sunny by comparison"
X Link 2025-12-08T02:00Z 65.3K followers, 168.8K engagements
"Exports are only XX% of China's GDP. The U.S. is XX% of that (3%). The Chinese domestic market is way bigger than people realize"
X Link 2025-12-14T19:42Z 65.3K followers, 14M engagements
"America is going to need so many batteries"
X Link 2025-12-19T07:33Z 65.3K followers, 133.1K engagements
"Grid scale battery storage is not "battery backup." Batteries are active assets that improve the utilization of other parts of the grid. An hour of battery storage at the level of a few percent of peak demand can provide ancillary services that free up thermal generation to serve load. A few hours of battery storage at the level of tens of percent can smooth out demand improve thermal generation utilization and improve T&D utilization. (peak shaving) Colocated battery storage with solar or wind lets you put more renewable generation on the same grid connection. A solar farm typically averages"
X Link 2024-04-10T16:22Z 64.5K followers, 30.2K engagements
"This hasnt gotten even X% of the attention it deserves. Massively underrated product"
X Link 2025-09-18T19:38Z 65K followers, 1.5M engagements
"Nevada and Texas had the largest decrease in real electricity prices. In both cases: - growth - coal - gas switching - expansion of resources with no fuel cost (solar & wind) This is not a coincidence"
X Link 2025-12-13T20:54Z 64.5K followers, 24.3K engagements
"Solar grew more in the last X years than gas has in the last XX. That's in absolute terms (TWh)"
X Link 2025-12-13T21:23Z 64.5K followers, 43.6K engagements
"It is so funny that they chose that image for the article. LONGi's cell is black with the metal contacts on the back (to absorb more light). This is like writing an article about the Model S Plaid doing 0-60 in X seconds and showing the tailpipe of a 2008 Honda Civic"
X Link 2025-12-14T21:22Z 64.5K followers, 21.4K engagements
"@RoninD0je87 @elonmusk Robotaxis being cheaper than Ubers (or even driving your own car) is what will get people to convert"
X Link 2025-12-16T21:40Z 64.9K followers, 14.8K engagements
"There are going to be hundreds of moments like this when Optimus learns new trades. Training will take time and then suddenly there are millions of new skilled workers available in yet another field"
X Link 2025-12-14T20:52Z 65.2K followers, 42.7K engagements
"why dont we reopen the coal plants Theyre still open. They run on gas now"
X Link 2025-12-18T14:53Z 65.2K followers, 4501 engagements
"Making electricity expensive is a terrible idea if you actually care about climate change"
X Link 2025-12-18T20:57Z 65.2K followers, 14.3K engagements
"It is X p.m. on December 20th and solar is supplying 1/3 of Texas's electricity"
X Link 2025-12-20T21:05Z 65.3K followers, 375.9K engagements
"If God wanted us to build Type X Civilization he would have: X. put a giant fusion reactor in the sky (emitting blackbody radiation around 5800 K) X. made XX% of Earth's crust out of a semiconductor with a matching bandgap (1.1 eV or so) X. filled the oceans with an alkali metal we could use to store limitless quantities of energy (sodium or something similar) That would be a crazy coincidence"
X Link 2024-03-27T22:39Z 65.3K followers, 3.9M engagements
"China's electricity per capita is up XXX% Ours is down X% Yeah we've had some energy efficiency gains and that's great but we need more electricity. We should be building industrial capacity and electrifying our economy"
X Link 2025-05-17T05:33Z 65.3K followers, 2.9M engagements
"@kimbal They dont understand"
X Link 2025-06-17T22:28Z 65.3K followers, 35.8M engagements
"Solar in China generated 1/3 as much as all U.S. generation last month. And its doubling every X years"
X Link 2025-06-20T00:18Z 65.3K followers, 27.3M engagements
"ATTN: U.S. POLICYMAKERS"
X Link 2025-08-29T23:13Z 65.3K followers, 26.3M engagements
"Solar was 3/4 of the growth in electricity supply in both China and the U.S. in the last XX months. The difference is that China is growing 4x faster"
X Link 2025-11-12T02:02Z 65.3K followers, 546.9K engagements
"China is the majority of electricity growth on Earth. 3/4 of new supply is solar. That's the case globally in China in the U.S. basically everywhere"
X Link 2025-11-13T16:22Z 65.3K followers, 32M engagements
"China's electricity is now XX% more than Europe's PER CAPITA. More than double in total"
X Link 2025-11-13T17:12Z 65.3K followers, 27.6M engagements
"Even if we disassembled the rocky planets converted them into fusion reactors and fueled them with the gas giants we still couldn't hold a candle to the Sun"
X Link 2025-11-18T16:50Z 65.3K followers, 1M engagements
"Chinas electricity consumption has grown by more than: - X India in X years - X EU in X years - X U.S. in XX years"
X Link 2025-11-22T19:33Z 65.3K followers, 1.7M engagements
"I think solar power is going to be a really big deal. In 2007 solar was XXXX% of global electricity. It's now X% and growing faster than any other source EVER has"
X Link 2025-11-24T02:15Z 65.3K followers, 1.3M engagements
"Chinese EVs are going to flood the global market. Western automakers and oil companies are not prepared"
X Link 2025-12-13T21:51Z 65.3K followers, 876.2K engagements
"China is all of the growth in global electricity per person"
X Link 2025-12-13T22:11Z 65.3K followers, 2M engagements
"China is building more nuclear than the rest of the world combined and still all those reactors will generate less electricity than the solar China installed in the first half of this year"
X Link 2025-12-13T22:40Z 65.3K followers, 278.1K engagements
"@Humble_Reminder XX% of Chinese exports go to the U.S. Chinese exports to the U.S. are XX% of XX% of Chinese GDP"
X Link 2025-12-15T00:47Z 65.3K followers, 66.4K engagements
"The fact that Ford still thinks the reason to make EVs is to reduce emissions tells you how little legacy auto understands this paradigm shift. Autonomy is a tidal wave. Once cars are autonomous the operational costs of combustion vehicles become completely untenable. Reducing emissions will be a side effect. Electric vehicles are a fundamentally better platform for autonomy. This is like investing in new whaling ships after the commercialization of incandescent lights"
X Link 2025-12-16T21:12Z 65.3K followers, 587.7K engagements
"If you tried to run Type X Civilization on fossil fuels you would use up all the oxygen in Earths atmosphere in just X years. You cannot climb the Kardashev scale without solar. The Kardashev scale IS solar"
X Link 2025-12-16T22:21Z 65.3K followers, 32.8K engagements
"Oil is very expensive and being dependent on oil imports is very risky. Much of the world will never have significant levels of combustion cars. EVs are inevitable"
X Link 2025-12-17T22:39Z 65.3K followers, 12.6K engagements
"Giant battery on wheels. Underappreciated"
X Link 2025-12-17T22:54Z 65.3K followers, 16.4K engagements
"A well made EV with a quiet interior is so useful for taking calls on the road. I do need to get a Starlink for dead zones though"
X Link 2025-12-18T20:55Z 65.3K followers, 22.7K engagements
"Mathematically illiterate doomerslop. 5k likes"
X Link 2025-12-19T00:23Z 65.3K followers, 56.8K engagements
"The Cybertruck has ruined all other cars for me. The steering is so good that anything else feels archaic"
X Link 2025-12-19T07:03Z 65.3K followers, 7.4M engagements
"@RustyRoad Everyone whos tried mine has said theyd buy a cyber SUV"
X Link 2025-12-19T07:06Z 65.3K followers, 13K engagements
"China has grown by over XXX TWh in the past XX months. Coal is down XX TWh"
X Link 2025-12-20T05:49Z 65.3K followers, 10.3M engagements
"Its not enough that we have to subsidize soybeans in the U.S. Its not enough that we have to subsidize soybeans that we sell to China. We somehow have to convince China to buy more of our subsidized soybeans than THEY want to. Have we considered that maybe we just shouldnt have XX million acres of soy monoculture"
X Link 2025-12-17T05:26Z 65.3K followers, 86.3K engagements
"@JoshuaCrager1"
X Link 2025-12-21T00:34Z 65.3K followers, 1417 engagements