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At some point the Western countries will have to choose between "making Putin or Xi happy" and "burning less coal in the interest of some climate statistics",
by paganel 3y ago
At some point the Western countries will have to choose between "making Putin or Xi happy" and "burning less coal in the interest of some climate statistics", they can't have it both ways.
Or they could just revamp their industrial base and try to catch China when it comes to solar panel manufacturing, or to brush away countless environmental protection measures and open up a uranium mine close to places like Aspen, Colorado or to some other places in Idaho recently invaded by California refugees, but I don't see any of those two things happening anytime soon.
- riffraff 3y agoAren't they playing catch up on solar panel manufacturing already? I keep reading news of production plants expanding every other day. And I mean, they don't need to catch up, just have enough of their own production to keep prices low.
- kramerger 3y agoGermany announced a program to manufacture them locally, but I haven't heard any more about that. I think competing with China on commercial terms will never be successful. The CCP is making sure the whole country is acting as one unit and for long term dominance. They can afford to sell solar panels for $0 until all competitors are dead.
- nyargh 3y agoChina has been hit with anti-dumping penalties in the US at least once due to solar panel subsides. I believe last year the EU agreed on a huge fund to improve advanced semiconductor manufacturing capacity within the bloc, but not sure if that would apply to solar.