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President Biden announces a series of tariffs on green energy products from China. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The rest of the world will get cheaper solar panels and EVs, that's quite nice.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Cheap panels are tanking European competitors, but it's probably too late to intervene at this point. Can't compete with work camps and cheap slave labor.

[–] exanime 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Correct... using work camps and cheap slave labour was only acceptable when US companies shipped production to China and pocketed the profits... now that China is doing it directly, it's certainly a problem we all care about

[–] acceptable_pumpkin 0 points 6 months ago

It’s certainly a problem the US government cares about when dealing with a hostile nation (from the US perspective).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

There are parts of the world not EU and US. They would all benefit from cheap panels.

But EU and US are not really important: https://www.statista.com/statistics/668749/regional-distribution-of-solar-pv-module-manufacturing/ they account only for few percent of solar photovoltaic module production.