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And yet all solar gear installed comes from China. Source: I am electrician installing it.
by lnsru 4mo ago
And yet all solar gear installed comes from China. Source: I am electrician installing it.
- nemomarx 4mo agoIs anyone else manufacturing it at comparable prices yet?
- superxpro12 4mo agoIt's hard to compete with slave wages
- RetroTechie 4mo agoIt's hard to compete with dark factories. Going forward, a big factor in (lack of) "made in Europe" isn't high wages. It's that a) much manufacturing capacity was lost because it was offshored decades ago. It takes ages to restore that. And b) "how many jobs does it provide?" has traditionally weighed heavily in policy decisions. Once robotization kicks in bigtime, it doesn't matter where labor is cheap. It matters where energy or raw materials are cheap. Or supply lines are short. Like it or not, China is way ahead on that curve.
- slaw 4mo agoIs it good or bad or it doesn't matter for climate?
- triceratops 4mo agoSo? Does every country that has oil also manufacture their own drills, rigs, and oil tankers?
- runtime_terror 4mo agoCurious; why is that an issue?
- kristopolous 4mo agoI'm sorry, that really just comes across as racism.
- mark242 4mo agoWhere were the shoes that you are currently wearing manufactured?
- rsynnott 4mo agoI mean... so? The immediate alternative is gas, where most of the _fuel_ comes from various dubiously-friendly regimes. At least once the solar panels are in place, China's permission isn't required for them to produce power.