Link: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/02/21/hegseths-blacklists-target-academia-cleantech-not-national-security-threats/

Ultimately, these blacklists are about greed and power. Clean technology challenges fossil fuel profits. China becoming more capitalist creates competition for the elevated prices and inferior products of legacy companies. Legacy companies that resist change will not be forced to change. Stupid people become easier to control and more susceptible to the fallacies of fear and bigotry.

These policies sacrifice security and escalate tensions. Tensions will also rise if the impacts of climate change get worse. The blacklists weaken minds and markets. If people look beyond the blanket statements intended to stimulate fear, hopefully they will realize that they are being used.

Hep-sbreath should put down the whiskey bottle and quit drunk driving the war machine.

What they are doing is exactly why the division or powers and rule of law exist. So we will predictably suffer the very consequences they were intending to prevent.

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wait, cleantech? that field is not wholly (i'd even venture widely) ideologically driven. many people just work there for the challenge and the pay. like spacex and tesla before musk went mask off. but i know a fair amount of engineers (especially conservative ones) who really don't like it when the government starts fucking with their work. crossing my fingers this opens some eyes.