According to Reuters, the fact that China is producing cheap solar panels that are helping the world transition from fossil fuels is bad actually.

  • Cheradenine
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    6 months ago

    At the risk of another ban ‘with some module-only manufacturers taking orders at negative margins to preserve market share

    Cheap solar is good, government subsidized monopolies are not.

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      6 months ago

      It is, as China repeatedly keeps showing.

      …and pretty much every single developed country in the world that have gotten there through state investment and subsidies.

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      6 months ago

      What’s wrong with state funding of green energy? Not only that, but helping the rest of the world to become less reliant on fossil fuels?

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      6 months ago

      You mean…

      Tesla? No, sorry, must have been Ford/GM.

      Oh, my bad, Intel.

      TSMC?

      No? Oh. So it’s only other governments subsidizing domestic businesses that’s bad.