China eating our lunch in solar-panel marketplace

[cobolt]

Originally Posted by Peggy Anne

At least with solar in the southwest, we never get an electric bill. Some people would rather buy solar equipment than fancy cars, or flatscreen tv's. I am all for solar. Passive solar hot water tanks out here are painted flat black, and placed behind glass. Hot !

Just wait. the environmental whackos will find a way to put a stop to solar. They're already miffed b/c wind turbines kill birds. You can't have it both ways. They'd have us squatting in huts like Obama's brother.

[Mike from back east]

Originally Posted by sickofnyc

“I've seen quite a lot more Chinese manufacturers coming into the marketplace,” said Dan Sullivan, head of Sullivan Solar Panels in Mira Mesa. “It's somewhat disconcerting, since we've had a profound opportunity to capture this market and create more American manufacturing jobs.”


Since we have lost a third of our manufacturing jobs, don't you agree that we should be manufacturing our own green energy alternatives?

China eating our lunch in solar-panel marketplace - SignOnSanDiego.com

Agree fully.

There are U.S. firms in the solar panel biz, but as long as the oil lobby owns congress, not a lot will change here.

As long as our tax dollars subsidize ethanol, oil depletion allowances and other oil/gas/coal loopholes, not a lot will change here.

We'll lose this new industry to China while congress keeps swallowing wads of money handed out by the oil/gas/coal lobbies.

A glimmer of hope, if pre-planned greed can be called that, is that Goldman, Sachs and other big money players are buying up scads of land in the sun-drenced southwest. They KNOW that solar is coming and they intend to make a fortune on it by cornering the market on utility-scale parcels of land in sunny climes.