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Comment on How the US Lost the Solar Power Race to China

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, we does everything have to be framed as some kind of zero-sum international “race”?

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silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It means that the economic benefits of being the world’s low-cost producer go to people in China instead of the US.

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- PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - hitmyspot@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    No, bit the point is that china is making the for themselves and everyone else.
    
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joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Also … not knowing you’re in a race is a sure way to lose it …

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- PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    With sunshine, this is exceedingly easy.
    
    Sunshine yes, manufacturing less so.
    
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