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How the US Lost the Solar Power Race to China (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

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, why does everything have to be framed as some kind of zero-sum international "race"?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It means that the economic benefits of being the world's low-cost producer go to people in China instead of the US.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

No, but the point is that china is making them for themselves and everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Then it's not a solar power race, it's a manufacturing race? Of course we lost that, we gave that up like 60 years ago!

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