There are so many strategic advantages to China’s mass solar adoption.
Let’s say there’s a war, it’s going to be much easier to take out a few coal plants or nuclear plants than masses of solar panels spread out geographically.
They have well defined lifetimes and are easily replaceable.
They’re cleaner, plus good for domestic manufacturing.
There are so many strategic advantages to China’s mass solar adoption.
Let’s say there’s a war, it’s going to be much easier to take out a few coal plants or nuclear plants than masses of solar panels spread out geographically.
They have well defined lifetimes and are easily replaceable.
They’re cleaner, plus good for domestic manufacturing.
The west needs to get our asses into gear.
But on the flip side I feel like it would take far less bombing power to render a field of solar panels inoperable.
Australia was perfectly positioned to take inspiration from China and run with it.
Unfortunately our mining companies have way too many fingers in our politics.
Not just solar, they started building new gen4 reactors 20 years ago.
Guess what forward thinking does for the future?
We seem to want to go only backward though.
Quarterly profits is the only goal? Guess we’ll only think 3 months ahead.
But it costs money to do anything, and using money is the realm of the private sector!
Instead of bombers, you’ll have planes filled with paint to dump on the panels =D
The bombs and planes would cost more than the panels, and it could be countered with plastic wrap.
What about windshield wipers