@futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz
Post #2499262
2026-04-14 09:58 UTC
Plenty of other countries and companies can produce panels. LG, who are Korean, make a lot of PV.
Also, once purchased, they keep running without requiring approval and new shipments from an authoritarian country, so your fears are somewhat overblown.
@kravietz@agora.echelon.pl @sgued@pouet.chapril.org
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@kravietz@agora.echelon.pl 2026-04-14 11:28
@futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz 1) “Can produce” != “do produce” 2) 85% supply chain control means even if you intend start your own production, you still depend on China for resources… which they can cut at any time, as they occasionally do with rare earth metals etc 3) moving production back to EU means cost increase because you no longer leverage Chinese forced labour, poor environmental standards, subsidies and low CO2 tax Which are the reasons why China built that supply chain dependency in the first place 🤷