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Solar energy projects are grinding to a halt in the US amid investigation into parts from China

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Metric Mouse said:
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Solar energy projects are grinding to a halt in the US amid investigation into parts from China

A survey in late April found 318 solar projects in the US had already been delayed or canceled due to the probe.
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Biden trade wars slowing renewable energy build out. Not good news.
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This seems like a scam. The US solar “industry” appears to consist mostly of installers of foreign made solar components. They buy cheap imports made with near slave labor from SE Asia then pay US crews to put the parts in place while making huge profits.
 
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Sounds like corporate propaganda to me. "Regulators are checking in to whether my company is evading tariffs will destroy my business!"
 
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But, but the climate cult said that solar energy is FREE and NEVER RUNS OUT!? 🤪
 
Metric Mouse said:
www.cnn.com

Solar energy projects are grinding to a halt in the US amid investigation into parts from China

A survey in late April found 318 solar projects in the US had already been delayed or canceled due to the probe.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

Biden trade wars slowing renewable energy build out. Not good news.
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Let the parts coming from overseas grind to a halt. I'm all for manufacturing the parts here, and employing union paid workers, here! If we aren't going to buy from manufactures here, then we need to tarrif the imoorts enough the companies here can compete!
 
ttwtt78640 said:
This seems like a scam. The US solar “industry” appears to consist mostly of installers of foreign made solar components. They buy cheap imports made with near slave labor from SE Asia then pay US crews to put the parts in place while making huge profits.
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Yep.

We need to make almost everything we use, here. We need to be self sufficient and not rely on trade. Traditionally, trade wasn't to get things cheaper, but rather get things we don't have here. Various spices, silk, and other resources not found here. Resources and products we can acquire and make here, need to have stiff tariffs on them as imports. We need that so we can rebuild industry here, and recover all those union family wage jobs we lost to overseas markets.


The left cries about low income labor. They want higher minimum wages here, but don't want to tariff imports because they want the cheap stuff. They are a primary cause this happens.
 
PoS said:
But, but the climate cult said that solar energy is FREE and NEVER RUNS OUT!? 🤪
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The sun will remain active until long after earth is uninhabitable regardless of how much solar energy we collect.

Do...do you think solar panels... drain the sun!?
 
PoS said:
But, but the climate cult said that solar energy is FREE and NEVER RUNS OUT!? 🤪
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So is lunar energy (tidal flow), but that does not mean capturing and storing that energy is FREE.
 
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ttwtt78640 said:
So is lunar energy (tidal flow), but that does not mean capturing and storing that energy is FREE.
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Now, I know he's never going to admit it, but you're a reasonable enough person to tell the truth:

Do you think any liberal, ever, has ever believed capturing and storing energy is free?
 
Deuce said:
Now, I know he's never going to admit it, but you're a reasonable enough person to tell the truth:

Do you think any liberal, ever, has ever believed capturing and storing energy is free?
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Of course not, but many are willing to ignore any adverse environmental impacts required to build and maintain the systems required to capture and store that “green” energy.

The energy efficiency of ‘corn gas’ is less compared to gasoline, but the ‘corn gas’ end product is cleaner burning than gasoline - so that makes it “green”.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Of course not, but many are willing to ignore any adverse environmental impacts required to build and maintain the systems required to capture and store that “green” energy.
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This is right wing propaganda and it's a lie.
 
Deuce said:
This is right wing propaganda and it's a lie.
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OK, then why do we import 80% of “our” solar panels? Why can‘t they be made here and with materials mined here in compliance with our environmental laws?
 
ttwtt78640 said:
OK, then why do we import 80% of “our” solar panels? Why can‘t they be made here and with materials mined here in compliance with our environmental laws?
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They can be. What's stopping you?
 
Deuce said:
They can be. What's stopping you?
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The same thing that is stopping an increase in domestic fossil fuel production - government rules and regulations must be complied with.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
The same thing that is stopping an increase in domestic fossil fuel production - government rules and regulations must be complied with.
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So what? It's not illegal to make solar panels here. What's actually stopping you?
 
ttwtt78640 said:
I’m just a lowly handyman.
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Ok, what's stopping everyone else? Is it maybe the fact that it's cheaper to buy the crap from China, which gives no ****s about working conditions or pollution?
 
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Ok, what's stopping everyone else? Is it maybe the fact that it's cheaper to buy the crap from China, which gives no ****s about working conditions or pollution?
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Yep, but folks need to look at all of the reasons (including environmental laws) that it is cheaper to ship things halfway around the world (how “green” is that?) than to make them here.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Yep, but folks need to look at all of the reasons (including environmental laws) that it is cheaper to ship things halfway around the world (how “green” is that?) than to make them here.
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So, it sounds like what you actually need is a revision to the statement that started this conversation:

Corporations are willing to overlook the environmental damage from mining and solar panel production in the name of "making green."
 
Deuce said:
So, it sounds like what you actually need is a revision to the statement that started this conversation:

Corporations are willing to overlook the environmental damage from mining and solar panel production in the name of "making green."
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To the extent of being content that the environmental damage is out of their sight it is largely true. The emphasis is on getting “greener” locally and as inexpensively as possible.
 
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