From the Wall Street Journal:
The dilemma is becoming more apparent as world leaders prepare to meet in Glasgow, Scotland, in November to make a new push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Part of that effort involves coaxing China, the world’s largest emitter, to shift away from coal-burning electricity to slash emissions even as the West gorges on Chinese gear from solar panels to lightweight aluminum for electric vehicles. At a July meeting of environment ministers from the Group of 20 leading economies, China and India blocked an agreement to phase out coal-fired electricity.
Finding alternatives won’t be easy. China’s surging and cheaper polysilicon production has harmed U.S. producers, forcing the shutdown of several factories that use power sources with lower carbon emissions than Chinese producers. Wacker Chemie AG , the West’s largest producer of solar-grade polysilicon, pays up to four times as much for power at its factories in Germany compared with Chinese producers in Xinjiang, said company spokesman Christof Bachmair.
Super Green Wind and Solar made by Coal ,LOL
China could use liquified natural gas to generate the electricity to make its solar panels.
Or it could use solar panel electricity to make solar panels.
We are destroying, and have destroyed, coal plants with the latest pollution control devices, that were paid for. Why? So we can virtue signal the world!
And, the world is laughing at us.
And even if they do generate net energy it will not be enough ROI for the investors and so the array will be sold and resold multiple times for debt by vulture capitalists like Romney, eventually leading to the last sucker that bought it declaring bankruptcy and shutting down the facility.