Wasting China’s solar panel surplus is madness | Clean power is within our reach — yet factories sit idle

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Kirk@startrek.website · 10 pts · 91d (1 reply)

I'm glad to see this in the Financial Times because "clean power" is only half the equation here. There is an economic benefit because solar is cheap power! And there also a national defense angle because solar is increasingly decentralized power that kneecaps both the terrorist looking to damage power infrastructure, not to mention the very concept of the petrostate.

alexcleac@szmer.info · 2 pts · 89d

I think this became as obvious only for the last few months, after another oil supply crisis emerged. I myself became much more "for" renewable energy sources, as it is much easier to see it on the price difference of petrol versus electricity :)