"We built up scaffolding of environmental laws from the 1960s onward that have basically made it illegal to do stuff. California, bit by bit, has restricted what I call chemistry at a foundational level. Where now it's basically illegal to do chemistry with metals. And if it's illegal to do chemistry with metals, you can't build anything with the electric stack. California was an industrial superpower. We built half the world's battleships at one point. We built the Kaiser shipyards. The bridge super structures for aircraft carriers were built right around here. California really prided itself on being at the forefront of the EV revolution and the solar revolution. But because of past reckless environmental stuff, we've built laws that have effectively banned us from being able to compete...despite a lot of the best engineers in these technologies being here." @sdamico @aphysicist