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Solar panels not as green as you think as battle looms on ‘massive’ panel tariffs
Fox Business ^ | 02 October 2021 | Brooke Crothers FOXBusiness

Posted on 10/03/2021 12:12:29 AM PDT by blueplum

Solar panels aren’t as environmentally friendly as you may think. And now an industry group is saying looming tariffs will cripple the industry...

...a group is claiming China-made panels are coming via countries like Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand in order to skirt tariffs.

In August, the American Solar Manufacturers Against Chinese Circumvention (A-SMACC) asked the Commerce Department to investigate "unfairly traded" imports from Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam of solar cells and modules that are "unlawfully circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties on China."...

...This has triggered a response from the SEIA, claiming that tariffs would cripple the industry....

(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: china; paneldumping; solarpanels; tariffs
greenies go to battle
1 posted on 10/03/2021 12:12:29 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Is there anything Sleepy46 can’t screw up?


2 posted on 10/03/2021 12:41:32 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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To: blueplum

Dangerous, inclined to break easily, alive only because it is propped up by government funding, and zero plans for mass disposal - let the industry be crushed.


3 posted on 10/03/2021 1:44:15 AM PDT by greatvikingone
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To: greatvikingone

REMEMBER SOLYNDRA, should be the battle cry


4 posted on 10/03/2021 2:39:54 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Always look behind the curtain)
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In CT, if there is a power outage not only is it THE LAW you must disconnect the power invert’s output from the lines coming in (common sense), you are required to not have it on at all. When there’s a power outage in your area you are not allowed to use your solar system to power your home or charge any batteries. It’s the law. Not kidding. Look it up.


5 posted on 10/03/2021 2:43:55 AM PDT by USCG SimTech ( )
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To: blueplum

Hopefully by now people here, at least, understand the TRUE PURPOSE of solar and wind energy, and it has NOTHING AT ALL due to do with global warming.

If you don’t know, feel free to ask.


6 posted on 10/03/2021 3:47:49 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: blueplum

They’ve always been environmentally unfriendly.... same as electric cars. They’re extremely damaging to the environment when you look at the mining done to get lithium for the batteries.


7 posted on 10/03/2021 4:18:45 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: blueplum

Their carbon footprint is terrible. Actually, they are often net energy sinkers. They are very often not even able to return the energy needed to create and install them.
As a further “icing on the cake”, about half of the silicon for them is made by slave labor un Uighur province.


8 posted on 10/03/2021 4:52:00 AM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHGreco RomNQkryIIs)
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To: blueplum

They’re making a lot of green for some at the top of the solar scam.


9 posted on 10/03/2021 5:28:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: BobL

I’ll bite, what’s your theory?


10 posted on 10/03/2021 5:42:28 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: ronnie raygun

REMEMBER SOLYNDRA, should be the battle cry

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EXACTLY !!!

The whole multi trillion green deal “ infrastructure” Bill

is just a massive
Graft/community insurgent fund

( they view it as a
“ we the top rail now”
reparations check to fund the revolution
.
and enslavement
.
of present and future American generations.

It’s a giant money laundering plan.

Ymho


11 posted on 10/03/2021 6:08:43 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: cuz1961

And

Solar panels aren’t enviromentaly clean by a long shot.

It’s just part of the

” we all have to but China panels and batteries “

Talibiden/ccp/ Scam/ graft


12 posted on 10/03/2021 6:13:25 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: blueplum

The only place I see Solar panels are those Crosswalk things


13 posted on 10/03/2021 7:03:41 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Keyhopper

“I’ll bite, what’s your theory?”

If my kid hadn’t heard it directly at a ‘teach-in’ (in collage), it would be a theory.

Basically, they needed a way to shut down fossil fuels and nuclear power (along with breaching at least some dams) that they could sell to the public. So they come up with ‘green energy’ and tell the public that it’s transparent to them and no more expensive. Most people can’t do the math and understand the implications, and with the media supporting this scam full-bore, they are now proceeding. First coal, next is natural gas, finally no more new nukes or refurbished nukes.


14 posted on 10/03/2021 7:09:25 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: blueplum

NOR ARE THOSE TURBINES


15 posted on 10/03/2021 7:14:59 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: BobL

This is right up there with the hole in the ozone.
Ozone is created by lightning, not many thunderstorms over the poles. Seems a lot of politicians bought into the new freon before they enacted the laws ban freon.
Climate change is another get rich by our betters.
They other con is this scamdemic, wonder how many bought up stock before they declared vaccines mandatory?
Next will be lockdowns for climate change!


16 posted on 10/03/2021 9:09:48 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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