Daniel Ackerman
speaker
269 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 1 Jun
Daniel Ackerman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Marketplace All-in-One · There are more unemployed people than job openings right now · 5 Feb 2026
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grid combined.
In just the last year alone, China added the equivalent of 40% of the electrical capacity of the entire United States.
Leslie Abrahams is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
One cluster of solar farms in western China, the Talaton Solar Park, covers 162 square miles of desert.
That is seven times the size of Manhattan.
One solar park.
And China's lead is not just in renewables.
If energy is a race, the U.S.
is losing it.
Kyle Chan is a fellow at the Brookings Institution.
The U.S.
struggles to build out new energy.
And it's not a problem that the U.S.
has really dealt with before, given that there wasn't really that much growth in energy demand until now with AI.
Whereas China has been adding energy for many years to power its manufacturing base, in the U.S., decades of demand stagnation and underinvestment have made it hard to adjust.
Columbia's Jason Bordoff.
We lost muscle memory with how to build new power generation.
The poles and the wires in the system are old, and we haven't had to build new power in this country for a long time.
It's difficult to get permits.
There are all sorts of bottlenecks.
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