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Not an expert, but my understanding is Solar is only so cheap due to Chinese strategic industrial dumping. That's an artificial, political distortion that will
by scottLobster 4y ago
Not an expert, but my understanding is Solar is only so cheap due to Chinese strategic industrial dumping. That's an artificial, political distortion that will likely evaporate in the near future.
- college_physics 4y agothere is a long-running secular trend [0] that simply reflects the general efficiencies that accrue as we dig deeper into and manage to optimize specific science/engineering domains. the Chinese dumping politics might be real / relevant as of late but is just a small part in a long story [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson%27s_law
- tuatoru 4y agoDumping (selling below manufacturing cost) is only viable in the short term. Let's check back in ten years, and see if LONGi, JA Solar, Trina, Jinko, Hanwha, and company are still in business, and what happened to price.