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Old 07-07-2014, 07:15 PM  
Amputate Your Head
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Originally Posted by crockett View Post
It's not solar energy production companies that have gone out of business, it's solar manufacturing companies that build panels. They simply can't compete with China's cheap prices. US and other countries have created the technology and China steals it then floods the market with cheap panels.

That has nothing to do with solar power it's self being viable or not. The energy production side of solar is a rapidly growing market, but just like any other market we can't compete with prices on the manufacturing side.
Apparently China is interested in more than just manufacturing cheap solar panels since Harry Reid has been trying to sell off public lands in Nevada at pennies on the dollar to Chinese investors for solar farms. Feel good about your Dems selling off chunks of America?
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