• shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    I want to believe. But there are questions.

    If the price tanks too hard, China will dial back production. The article talks about this. Seems to already be happening.

    Also, why am I not seeing a penny drop in price at the hardware store in my corner of America? Anyone know of deals I can take advantage of?

    I have many uses for solar cells, mainly personal stuff. Charging 12V lead and lithium batteries (mostly have this covered) and powering my camp for a start. Love to get my home going as well, but prices aren’t there yet and I’m kinda broke.

    • naturalgasbad
      5·
      3 months ago

      China is rotating construction workers into solar panel deployment. May are theorizing that this will be the last great rotation of China’s glut of blue collar workers. Projections always assume market effects at play, but those don’t always hold for China.

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I just want a non-battery solution for solar. I’m sitting on panels I got a good price for but inverter shopping is kind of a nightmare.

  • intelshillOP
    91·
    3 months ago

    Holy shit we might actually have a chance of beating back climate change. I never expected the sheer scale of Chinese photovoltaic expansion.

    Regardless of what you think about the impacts of this on the economy, it’s undoubtedly good for the environment to have cheap electricity available to supplant expensive fossil fuels.

    • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workEnglish
      71·
      3 months ago

      I don’t think a bargain on solar panels is enough. We need real policies like hard carbon rationing, mandatory rooftop solar, and a war economy build out of nuclear power infrastructure.