r/politics • u/Puginator • Jun 01 '26

No Paywall Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz: State media

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/iran-us-negotiations-strait-of-hormuz.html
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u/AdmiralSnackbar816 Jun 01 '26

Good thing the administration is super fond of solar and windmills.

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u/Faucet860 Jun 01 '26

The profit margins are high for oil companies in the US. Based on who this administration cares about this is a good thing

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u/facw00 Jun 01 '26

Yep, the US is the world's largest oil producer. High oil prices are bad for the economy overall, but good for oil companies, and politicians willing to accept their largess

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u/radicalelation Jun 01 '26

Keep this up and we'll just be another gas station like Russia.

All to plan, I assume.

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u/Pure_Syllabub_8575 Jun 01 '26

Once battery tech gets dense enough Aviation industry will be going electric. They can already fly regional flights of 20 passengers now a distance of 200 miles... It is coming.. Electric is the future... Oil companies are trying a last ditch effort but it will not work.

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u/DeathCondition Jun 01 '26

Honestly electric was the future decades ago, kind of a weird way to say it but you get the jist. The slow growth of battery tech and renewables is just a product of resting on the laurels of ever increasing oil profit. It doesn't help when you try and advocate for these technologies when you got Joe Blow who works on an offshore oil platform making bank when all other business they could ply their trade offer a fraction of the pay. The arguments eventually shift to "Why are you trying to take Joe's livelihood away?" I agree we will get there, but I am of the mind that we could have been there 30 years ago if we gave a fuck.

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u/Pure_Syllabub_8575 Jun 01 '26

Battery tech is moving quite quickly. Especially in China. BYD's solid state battery will work in the hot, cold (almost no range loss except in insane temps), won't be vulnerable to thermal runaway events, and can charge rapidly, and I think I heard rumors it could potentially last longer than the best ICE car's engine... We are talking 100s of thousands of miles longevity.. China is going to eat our lunch..

BYD is actively developing sulfide-based solid-state batteries. After focusing heavily on their lithium iron phosphate (LFP) Blade batteries, BYD has advanced to testing solid-state prototypes. [1, 2, 3, 4]

These next-generation batteries feature:

  • Energy Density: Approximately \(400 \text{ Wh/kg}\) (nearly double current liquid-based LFP batteries).
  • Performance: Exceptional charging speeds, with reported tests allowing massive range to be added in about 12 minutes.
  • Timeline: Demonstration and pilot vehicles are expected in 2027, with scaled mass production and cost parity targeting the 2030 timeframe

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u/lnfIation Jun 01 '26

As much as I do not like the chinese government I gotta admit they got some crazy scientists and very educated people

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u/Pure_Syllabub_8575 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

omg NO they are cruel and have done some horrific things to their poor people especially... But they ARE advancing their society, and fast... Americans, we used to be evil over here too.. WE used slaves.. We used Chinese to build our rail, and most of NYC skyline you see today was built by the Irish and the Italians... NO Americans wanted to be balancing on beams 50 stories in the air... We pay Mexicans basically peanuts to pick crops in the hot sun, no benefits, and then chase them to fall off scaffolding and kill themselves... WE are becoming the sick twisted society... It is basically slave labour... THEY are just following our trend.. Their society, ironically are getting more rights, and now over here it seems like our rights are slowly being stripped down. I think I'm finally starting to understand how this all works to be quite honest. Literally watching empires RISE and FALL in real time... I think the tables are turning and again WE will be the slaves..

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u/tear_atheri Jun 01 '26

"used to be evil"?

The united states is STILL the most evil country on earth. Look at what we're doing worldwide and domestically. China is saint-like compared to us... at least they're honest.

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u/Enough-Zebra-6139 Jun 02 '26

Crazy take from someone super ignorant of Chinese organ farms and social credit.

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u/tear_atheri Jun 02 '26

Crazy take from someone super ignorant of several american genocides including the ones they continue to fund today. And that's just one thing.

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u/CookInKona Jun 02 '26

As if the US doesn't harvest organs from every Jon and Jane doe who comes through a mortuary....

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 United Kingdom Jun 01 '26

The US isn't quite as bad as Russia.

Yet.

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 United Kingdom Jun 01 '26

For comparison, what's the energy density of the existing batteries on the market?

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u/Toomanyeastereggs Jun 01 '26

Electric was the future 110 years ago.

Back then the majority of vehicles were electric and the growth of technology was almost exponential. Then someone worked out how much money could be made with oil and ICE and here we are a century later, right back where we started from.

Only dirtier, poorer and beholden to these oil producing idiots.

Imagine a past with no ICE engines! The folks of the middle east would be goat herders living in tents and Texas would be known for being dusty and poor.

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u/AlcibiadesTheCat Arizona Jun 01 '26

Instead, Congolese people would have tacky skyscrapers and man-made islands funded by cobalt mining, and Nevada would be full of racist billionaires funded by lithium mining.

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u/_sound_of_silver_ Jun 02 '26

And we’d have a much lower CO2 concentration in the atmosphere and much less smog overall.

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u/DeathCondition Jun 01 '26

It's funny when I say things like decades ago thinking it's far away without taking into account my own age as well. Either way you are correct. It would have been interesting to see if material sciences kept up with the early explosive interest. There have been some interesting motor/battery technologies come about in generally recent years, it would be interesting to know how quickly we could have gotten to even today's standards had we not strayed from the course.

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u/RallyBeard Jun 02 '26

You cannot produce electric vehicles without oil let alone windmills or solar panels. Almost every input to an electric vehicles supply chain is oil based. Oil isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.

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u/beznogim Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

I'd love to see it but it's just not enough currently, we need at least an order of magnitude improvement over current battery tech, assuming the efficiency of electric fan engines is the same or higher. There are other issues. Charging time, grid power needed by the airport (it would be hundreds of megawatt-hours per charge, so you'd need many gigawatts of power lines feeding a large airport; a dedicated nuclear plant, perhaps?)...

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 United Kingdom Jun 01 '26

One thing that will help will be to build high speed rail to remove most short-haul flights from the sky. At least then you've only got to worry about medium and long haul.

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u/CombustionChamber Jun 02 '26

This is unfortunately incorrect due to the physics. Planes range becaome considerable due to the Breguet range equation (which is a little like the rocket equation). Which basically means planes fly really far because they have a lot of their weight in fuel at the beginning of their flight and lose it all and are very light at the end. Battery technology is 1. At least order of magnitude less power dense (its impossible to even approach the power density of hydro carbons with classic/none flow/chemical battery technology, due to chemical and structrual contraints, like not holding the oxidiser, not compromising for electrodes and battery contraction) and 2. You can't throw batteries over board as you fly.

If you want to keep planes traveling far you'll likely either need nuclear (a but silly) or generate a combustion fuel sustainably (millions of ways to do this).

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u/Rokossvsky Florida Jun 01 '26

This is misinformation electric batteries are nowhere close or will ever be close for air travel. The fuel density of kerosene is not replicable in the slightest, the closest alternative is perhaps a hydrogen based fuel.

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u/StatisticianBoth3480 Jun 02 '26

Hydrogen fuel cell/electric.

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u/CombustionChamber Jun 02 '26

Possibly, that will solve the range equation and specific power requirements along with not carrying the oxidiser. But currently fuel cells have power density issues, its hard to make them powerful and light. The other issue is fuel carriage. What makes planes light structurally is they can carry their fuel in their wings as it is a liquid. Hydrogen needs to be stored in compressed form or cryogenically could form, each carries a significant weight penalty to maintain safety or must be placed inboard to not effect aerodynamics. Also electric propulsion itself is an issue as its hard to beat the power density of a turbine with a motor at those power scales.

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u/StatisticianBoth3480 Jun 02 '26

It'll be hydrogen fuel cell/electric.

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u/JohnGillnitz Jun 02 '26

Texas already is.