Green Energy @slrpnk.net silence7 @slrpnk.net 3 mo. ago

How the US Lost the Solar Power Race to China

www.bloomberg.com How the US Lost the Solar Power Race to China

Bloomberg Opinion’s climate columnist visited Michigan, the former heart of the solar industry, and China to learn how good, old-fashioned capitalism won out.

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Technology @lemmy.ml ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ @lemmy.ml 3 mo. ago

How the US Lost the Solar Power Race to China

www.bloomberg.com /graphics/2024-opinion-how-us-lost-solar-power-race-to-china/

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I didn't even know we were racing. What are the results, are we, like, not allowed to do solar power now? What does China get for winning, a free car or something?

Seriously, why does everything have to be framed as some kind of zero-sum international "race"?
- 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.
- Also ... not knowing you're in a race is a sure way to lose it ...
  
  Not being in a race is a sure way to neither win or lose and just kind of do your own thing. With sunshine, this is exceedingly easy.
Waiting for China to develop PV tech they didn't steal from foreign IP.

Been waiting a while now. China is the Edison of solar.

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