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Chinese Burn Will Only Make the Solar Industry Stronger
A glut that drives prices lower will help the uptake of photovoltaic technology.
In Asia, utility-scale solar is just about as cheap as fossil fuels.
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Remember how there was a glut of computer chips in 2008, and then the world stopped using computer chips? Yeah, me neither.
That’s a good reason to discount your worries about the effects on solar power from recent policy blows on panel manufacturers by the U.S. and Chinese governments.