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Solar manufacturing in Germany creates 40,000 jobs. Can U.S. do the same?

Discussion in 'Environmental Discussion' started by Rybold, Jun 24, 2008.

  1. Rybold

    Rybold globally warmed member

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    Solar panel manufacturing in Germany created 40,000 jobs. Can the U.S. do the same? More appropriately, will the U.S. do the same?

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    #1 Rybold, Jun 24, 2008
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    I'm a big advocate of retrofitting obsolete
    domestic car factories into solar panel or wind factories. Why not? They were retrofitted for WWII supplies.
     
    #2 burritos, Jun 24, 2008
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    Certainly the U.S. *could* do the same. We have plenty of factories and workers that could do exactly that.

    The question is....*will* we?

    Germany is #1 in the world for solar, both in manufacturing and use. It looks like Japan is going to challenge that. There is no reason for the U.S. not to be #1 in solar. We should be making more panels, better panels and using more of them ourselves. There is no excuse.

    We'll see if anything changes after January, 2009
     
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