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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.
How the US Lost the Solar Power Race to China
Submitted 1 month ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to energy@slrpnk.net
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-opinion-how-us-lost-solar-power-race-to-china/
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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”?
silence7@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
It means that the economic benefits of being the world’s low-cost producer go to people in China instead of the US.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Also … not knowing you’re in a race is a sure way to lose it …
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 month 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.