@[email protected] to Green [email protected]English • 1 month agoWhy are solar panels and batteries from China so cheap: It's more to do with automation and state-of-the art manufacturing processes than cheap labour.www.sustainabilitybynumbers.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up166
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•edit-21 month agoHeadline conveniently leaves out the parts about subsidies and forced labor. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2021/05/19/china-made-solar-cheap-through-coal-subsidies--forced-labor-not-efficiency/
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•1 month agoBut the article analyses those points and concludes (a) forced labor is bad but not a big part of the finances, and (b) the US does just as much subsidization.
minus-squaresunzu2linkfedilink3•1 month agoUS did subsidize but our Titans of the industry didn’t deliver 🤡 Also, US utilizes forced labour just at smaller scale.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 month agoYa US prison labour system just hiding in the corner
Headline conveniently leaves out the parts about subsidies and forced labor.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2021/05/19/china-made-solar-cheap-through-coal-subsidies--forced-labor-not-efficiency/
But the article analyses those points and concludes (a) forced labor is bad but not a big part of the finances, and (b) the US does just as much subsidization.
US did subsidize but our Titans of the industry didn’t deliver 🤡
Also, US utilizes forced labour just at smaller scale.
Ya US prison labour system just hiding in the corner