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China has flooded the market with so many solar panels that people are using them as garden fencing (www.businessinsider.com)

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Solar panels — 80% of which are made in China — are so cheap that they're now being used to line garden fences in Germany and the Netherlands, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like they exceeded demand, if people are using them in this way. Thus, the use of the word “flooding” (met = saturated, flooding = over-saturated).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

“using them in this way” yields more power, better efficiency, and easier maintenance …

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They mention in the article it’s specifically NOT as efficient due to not being angled properly, but that it doesn’t really matter if they’re so cheap. You know, because of the flooding of the market.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There are probably a lot of people that can only afford solar at the prices they are now. Why concentrate on a handful of idiots that built fences with them instead of the thousands that are now able to install them on their roof when they couldn't a few years ago.

Articles like these feel manipulative. Cheap solar is never ever a bad thing. I hope they get cheap enough people slap them on umbrellas.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

That’s fair!