@[email protected] to Green [email protected]English • 3 months agoHow the US Lost the Solar Power Race to Chinawww.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up115arrow-down1external-linkHow the US Lost the Solar Power Race to Chinawww.bloomberg.com@[email protected] to Green [email protected]English • 3 months agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink9•3 months agoIt means that the economic benefits of being the world’s low-cost producer go to people in China instead of the US.
minus-square@PapaStevesylink4•3 months agoThey’re not stealing the sunshine from us, it hits them over there. We can still make more solar panels, we haven’t lost anything irretrievably.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•edit-23 months agoNo, but the point is that china is making them for themselves and everyone else.
minus-square@PapaStevesylink1•edit-23 months agoThen it’s not a solar power race, it’s a manufacturing race? Of course we lost that, we gave that up like 60 years ago!
It means that the economic benefits of being the world’s low-cost producer go to people in China instead of the US.
They’re not stealing the sunshine from us, it hits them over there. We can still make more solar panels, we haven’t lost anything irretrievably.
No, but the point is that china is making them for themselves and everyone else.
Then it’s not a solar power race, it’s a manufacturing race? Of course we lost that, we gave that up like 60 years ago!