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> Solar panels are almost exclusively made in China now using coal. Ok. How do you know?
by flir 3y ago
> Solar panels are almost exclusively made in China now using coal.
Ok. How do you know?
- swader999 3y agohttps://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2023/7/3/solar-panels-are-more-carbon-intensive-than-experts-will-admit https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2023/7/3/solar-pa...
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoThis is Micheal Shellenberg's fossil fuel boosting org. I know they and he put a small amount of effort into pretending to be "environmentalists" but it's pretty far from convincing unless you want to believe for some reason.
- flir 3y agoIf you're trying to assess the data quality based on the source, rather than the data itself (no shame, I'm doing the same - I don't have time to debunk every half-truth out there), you probably need to go one deeper to the report's author - Enrico Mariutti. I can't find out much about him.
- ZeroGravitas 3y ago> However, in light of the acceleration of European climate policy, which threatens to condemn Italy to irreversible decline, I feel it is my duty to enable the media to cover this discovery. Yeah, he sounds like a legit researcher, rather than someone with a blog and a message the fossil fuel lobby finds useful.
- flir 3y agoI found something in the end. There's an interesting list of publications on his linkedin page. Pick a title at random and translate it.