silence7@slrpnk.net to Green Energy@slrpnk.netEnglish · 3 days agoHow the US Lost the Solar Power Race to Chinawww.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down18file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up115arrow-down1external-linkHow the US Lost the Solar Power Race to Chinawww.bloomberg.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to Green Energy@slrpnk.netEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·3 days agoIt means that the economic benefits of being the world’s low-cost producer go to people in China instead of the US.
minus-squarePapaStevesy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoThey’re not stealing the sunshine from us, it hits them over there. We can still make more solar panels, we haven’t lost anything irretrievably.
minus-squarehitmyspot@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-224 hours agoNo, but the point is that china is making them for themselves and everyone else.
minus-squarePapaStevesy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-219 hours agoThen it’s not a solar power race, it’s a manufacturing race? Of course we lost that, we gave that up like 60 years ago!
It means that the economic benefits of being the world’s low-cost producer go to people in China instead of the US.
They’re not stealing the sunshine from us, it hits them over there. We can still make more solar panels, we haven’t lost anything irretrievably.
No, but the point is that china is making them for themselves and everyone else.
Then it’s not a solar power race, it’s a manufacturing race? Of course we lost that, we gave that up like 60 years ago!