schizoidman@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agoMany US solar factories are lagging. Except those China ownswww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
arrow-up137arrow-down1external-linkMany US solar factories are lagging. Except those China ownswww.reuters.comschizoidman@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
minus-squarenekandro@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months ago“Heavily subsidized supply chains” Let’s just call it what it is: economies of scale. China makes up 80% of the polysilicon market. The US? Barely 5%. Scale is the strongest subsidy of them all.
“Heavily subsidized supply chains”
Let’s just call it what it is: economies of scale. China makes up 80% of the polysilicon market. The US? Barely 5%. Scale is the strongest subsidy of them all.