Comment Re:Already done! (Score 2) 123
Solar panels are cheap because of China, not because of "development effort" of the "decades-long research" done by rich nations. You are taking like that research was given for free and is not riddled with patents designed to make more money that it cost to make them, designed to make the rich nations richer.
This kind of stories always bring about the most bottom scrapping idiots who have zero critical thinking and ability to self-reflect right to the forefront. Each 1 positively modded comment is regurgitating outright lies like no one has ever actually looked at them and realized it is bullshit.
China makes solar cheaper. Not the west.
China makes it cheaper because it can - it has invested in being able to be cheapest.
China makes solar panel because that is what the "researchers" of the rich countries want.