China has flooded the market with so many solar panels that people are using them as garden fencing (www.businessinsider.com)

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Solar panels — 80% of which are made in China — are so cheap that they're now being used to line garden fences in Germany and the Netherlands, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Vertically installed solar panels are actually not a bad idea in some places so the headline is a bit misleading.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

They link out to this which imo is the real story

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/01/16/solar-fences-stand-out-in-australian-market-simulation/

TLDR solar fences work pretty well

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