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In the end you have to replace those panels and nobody in your country now produces them or has the incentive to start producing them unless they not only drop
by modo_mario 1mo ago
In the end you have to replace those panels and nobody in your country now produces them or has the incentive to start producing them unless they not only drop the subsidies but sell well over market value.
- collinmcnulty 1mo agoIn 25 years, those panels will still be producing 80% of their starting value. Imagine what you can do with 25 years of energy independence.
- hinkley 1mo agoWell it’s about 40 years since the US started getting stupid about foreign trade and things are not going so well here now. Send help.
- stubish 1mo agoIt would be great if they performed that badly. If my panels drop below 87.5% in 30 years they get replaced under warranty for a second 30 years of use. These are even the cheap panels. Amazing how much better the tech is now.
- thelastgallon 1mo agoYou have 25 - 50 years. Put your STE people to work. CSIRO is probably a decent org, give them a Manhattan project? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSIRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSIRO
- nutjob2 1mo agoCSIRO and the University of New South Wales are the source of today's cutting edge solar panel tech. It's just manufacturing went to China and that is the challenge. It'll be met when China becomes totally untenable as a trading partner.
- henry2023 1mo agowhat if you develop manufacturing capabilities during the 30 years lifespan of the panels?
- modo_mario 1mo agoWe're well into that 30 years. You'd have to start doing so sincerely and i don't see nor expect it.
- abdullahkhalids 1mo agoThe alternative for most countries except a handful is that they continue to import oil from the two dozen-ish odd countries who export it. The policy relevant question then boils down to, in two decades how many countries will be producing enough solar panels to export it? How many will be friendly to my country?