Remember ten years ago when massive German subsidies were the driving force behind the dropping price of solar panels globally, and western media made a fuss about it? Yeah, me neither.
It’s bad because they’ll have to start implementing their milquetoast climate change policies instead of just performatively talk about it in speeches. If China produces the required equipment then the west have run out of excuses for why they can’t even implement basic shit
On NPR today they were like "China is making so many solar panels that it's lowering their price" implying this was bad because... 🤷
When interviewing people from Chinese industry they were like "overproduction is just a sign of a mature industry" "just innovate lol"
Even Chinese businesses can just throw out some Marxist Economics principles and the West reels.
Remember ten years ago when massive German subsidies were the driving force behind the dropping price of solar panels globally, and western media made a fuss about it? Yeah, me neither.
western media didnt need to make much of a fuss because the germans sabotaged their own growing solar panel industry voluntarily.
It’s bad because they’ll have to start implementing their milquetoast climate change policies instead of just performatively talk about it in speeches. If China produces the required equipment then the west have run out of excuses for why they can’t even implement basic shit
Their innovation: bifacial solar panels
Our innovation: answer machine that gets everything wrong