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> You are forgetting the part where RWE is also paying the income of a whole lot of miners, who would suddenly be without a job if the mines where to be closed
by DocTomoe 7y ago
> You are forgetting the part where RWE is also paying the income of a whole lot of miners, who would suddenly be without a job if the mines where to be closed.
In all fairness, Germany lost about four times as many jobs when we destroyed our solar industry.
- freeflight 7y agoThe only thing I'm aware off is that the Groko has been giving out way fewer licenses for PV installations, which has lead to a considerable slow-down in building out PV capabilities. But afaik we didn't really destroy the industry, we just lost our edge [0], which has in part to do with industrial espionage [1], and in other parts with China simply out manufacturing anybody else as soon as they get the gist of building something. [0] https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/wirtschaft/Der-Niedergang-der-deutschen-Solarwirtschaft-id41477701.html https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/wirtschaft/Der-Niederga... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial_espionage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial...
- turbinerneiter 7y agoThey ruined the home market, while China heavily subsidized theirs. It was a failure of politics.
- hef19898 7y agoThat the German manufacturers were subsidy chasing production dilitantes did help neither. But yes, politicals played a role. Still do in solar to this day.