52
China has flooded the market with so many solar panels that people are using them as garden fencing
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2024
52 points (94.8% liked)
Technology
1443 readers
940 users here now
Which posts fit here?
Anything that is at least tangentially connected to the technology, social media platforms, informational technologies and tech policy.
Rules
1. English only
Title and associated content has to be in English.
2. Use original link
Post URL should be the original link to the article (even if paywalled) and archived copies left in the body. It allows avoiding duplicate posts when cross-posting.
3. Respectful communication
All communication has to be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
4. Inclusivity
Everyone is welcome here regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
5. Ad hominem attacks
Any kind of personal attacks are expressly forbidden. If you can't argue your position without attacking a person's character, you already lost the argument.
6. Off-topic tangents
Stay on topic. Keep it relevant.
7. Instance rules may apply
If something is not covered by community rules, but are against lemmy.zip instance rules, they will be enforced.
Companion communities
[email protected]
[email protected]
Icon attribution | Banner attribution
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It's about utelising supply and demand.
Problem: China needs a lot of solar panels, quickly... and making many things is comparatively cheaper than producing a few things, per unit of course...
Solution: set up the infrastructure, produce a shit ton of solar panels and sell the excess on foreign markets to make up the difference.
You save a ton of money and give your own companies and infrastructure a chance to easily implement them. This is important, as China has had industrial smog problems in it's manufacturing hubs.
This is something China can do, but the USA can't do because it's not government cheese or soda... for some reason.
It's because the companies own the government in the US.
Plus the more other counties use solar and not fossil fuels the more likely we are planet won't boil. I know people like to pretend they're ontological evil but actualy even the ccp don't want everyone to die