41 ms·

Remove restrictions on solar import from China. 62 GW may sound a large number, but China added 277GW solar in just 2024. They have the surplus capacity and hen

• adriand 1y ago
  China installed 3 gigawatts of solar power every day in May: equivalent to building one coal-fired power plant every 8 hours. They are so far ahead of the US on renewables now that even if Trump had not sold out the future of the country to the fossil fuel industry, the US would have been hard-pressed to catch up.
• XorNot 1y ago
  This is honestly one of the stupidest things about this sort of policy: solar panels last 20 years and China can't take them away once you have them. If you're doing something much more valuable with the power, then buying a lot of PV from China makes sense. If you think the panels are being unfairly subsidized then buying a lot of PV from China is effectively having the Chinese government pay you to have cheap power. There's an enormous difference between being dependent on short term consumable resources,.and acquiring multidecadel productive assets. The US at all points seems to not understand it's relationship with China at all.
  • Panzer04 1y ago
    Most people are economically illiterate and don't understand what subsidies actually imply. They literally only "hurt" you if you have the local industry to harm to begin with. Otherwise, if someone else is paying the subsidy, it gives you a good for cheaper than you could have had otherwise. The current admin just turns this up to 11 with their ideologically driven nonsense.