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The EU and US massively restricting / taxing Chinese solar has its upsides. This might be quite the leapfrog and actually getting solar into countries with lots
by wjnc 8y ago
The EU and US massively restricting / taxing Chinese solar has its upsides. This might be quite the leapfrog and actually getting solar into countries with lots of sun is quite a meta-efficieny effect. I wonder though how a country like Vietnam can get it's grid in order to cope with a lot more natural energy.
- jlebrech 8y agohome grown solar panel manufacture?
- AhshahP9 8y agoI don't know about Vietnam, but at least in many parts of India people are used to the grid being unreliable anyway.
- realusername 8y agoI'm living in Saigon now, it works well, I have maybe one power-cut every two month.
- radicalbyte 8y agoWe (the west) should be strongly encouraging this in developing countries. We have the money, we have the instruments, all we need is the will. The US put men on the moon using 1960's technology and brought them back alive. Switching the world to 100% carbon neutral energy production should be more than achievable.
- ForHackernews 8y agoThere's no political or economic will. It won't happen.
- Brakenshire 8y agoIt all depends on economics, people will switch if the new technologies are cheaper, or if they face tariffs for not doing their part.
- sgift 8y agoIf the west tariffs developing countries there will be an outcry over neocolonialism and forcing the poor countries to our will and whatever. The only thing the west is allowed to do is putting money into developing countries without any guarantees and hope they do something useful with it. It's frustrating.
- radicalbyte 8y agoWe pump plenty of money in now for specific infrastructure projects; which is exactly what we should be doing here.
- daliusd 8y agoI'm not sure about political but economic is questionable. I am pretty sure installing and maintaining solar and wind is cheaper than coal (based on https://www.drawdown.org/ https://www.drawdown.org/ book). Not sure about solar.