• PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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    2 months 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, why does everything have to be framed as some kind of zero-sum international “race”?

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      2 months 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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        2 months 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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            2 months 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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      2 months ago

      Also … not knowing you’re in a race is a sure way to lose it …

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    2 months ago

    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.