schizoidman@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agoMany US solar factories are lagging. Except those China ownswww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up149arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up149arrow-down1external-linkMany US solar factories are lagging. Except those China ownswww.reuters.comschizoidman@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square10linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarenekandro@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years 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.