• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    19 hours ago

    surely they’ll follow up with investments into US-produced solar equipment to boost the economy and bring prices down to competitive levels, right?

    … Right?

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      I’m convinced it will be easy to sell solar to the Right once it is marketed as ‘off-grid independent self-sufficient energy’ instead of ‘green energy’.

  • mriguy@lemmy.world
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    I’m sure that’s a much more effective than trying to build up US companies to make solar panels.

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      Both are happening at the same time. A new plant for domestic wafer production is coming online in parallel to this.

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        Where are they getting the material for wafers? Seems like 1 step forward and 3 steps backwards.

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            24 hours ago

            Where is the sources for the material coming from? I don’t think most people realize that “domestic manufacturing” includes imported materials majority of the time which is getting tariffed.

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              Where is the sources for the material coming from? I don’t think most people realize that “domestic manufacturing” includes imported materials majority of the time which is getting tariffed.

              The USA does produce polysilicon domestically, which is the main raw material in wafers and ignots. Since the plant isn’t operational yet there is no report of where they are getting their polysilicon.

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                I think they’re asking where the raw materials come from , i.e. the silicon to make the polysilicon. Usually sand is refined for this purpose; a lot of which comes from the Gobi desert in China.

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                  I placed this info elsewhere. Refinery building in Tennessee, query in Canada. At least that’s one company shooting to use the silicon for EV batteries. Makes sense because GM built their battery plant here in Tennessee as well. So they could likely ship within the state once refined. (Trump’s tarrifs on Canada obviously being an issue)

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      build up US companies to make solar panels.

      One would expect it to have that effect. If X is more expensive to obtain abroad, then you’ll tend to have more domestic capacity being developed – as long as it’s believed that the tariffs aren’t going to go away in the near future, since otherwise, anyone investing in solar manufacturing capacity stands to lose their investment.

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        20 hours ago

        Except this move is likely less about promoting domestic solar production and more about protecting oil, gas, and coal by making green energy alternatives more expensive.

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          We are building the refinery in Tennessee, and the Quary is in Canada. 1 company is Sonova Global.

          So naturally the Tariffs against Canada will be us making our local refinery pay more to import materials from their own company’s query across the border

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    Goddammit Biden. Your time is done. Know when to fold.

    Now when it’s 2025 and beyond, Trump won’t have to do anything with Chinese tariffs. If people complain about tariffs causing price hikes on new solar installations (for which he’s probably gonna get rid of tax incentives on top of that), he can just say, “NoT mY fAuLt, Biden set up the tariffs.”

    Quit while you’re ahead, dude!