26 Chapter 26 Priority 1 Industrial Sovereignty

Finance kilowatt-hours, not PowerPoints. World battery capacity: over 3 TWh (three times demand), 80% controlled by China. Europe: 251 GWh installed (Sept 2025), 5% of the world — and only 11% truly European. A pack costs $131/kWh in Europe vs $84 in China. Europe takes 15-20 years to open a mine; China, three. This video was produced with AI (Google NotebookLM), bounded to the figures of the book chapter, in line with EU AI Act art. 50. From « Europa Resurgam » by François Bellot & Christophe Boeraeve.