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NickB79

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20. A side-effect of China's massive PV boom

Sat Jun 1, 2013, 09:18 PM

Jun 2013

When you have Chinese solar panel companies being created almost overnight, and factories going from blueprints to pouring foundations to 5,000 line workers all in a year, you're going to see a lot of subpar product going out the door.

Besides that, it's fucking China, which has never been synonymous with "high-quality products".

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Oh. Oh. It appears that those solar cells on which we bet the atmosphere... [View all] NNadir Jun 2013 OP

Your comment: "Heckuva job anti-nukes" hlthe2b Jun 2013 #1

He can't. He only has one mode: nasty. kestrel91316 Jun 2013 #10

Behaves the same way @ Daily Kos FogerRox Jun 2013 #14

Venomous hyperbole aside, I'd rather live next to failing solar panels than a leaky nuke reactor. djean111 Jun 2013 #2

"Or shoot it at middle easterners", it just became clear to me why we invaded Iraq. bahrbearian Jun 2013 #6

Right now, we're radiating the Pacific ocean. BlueToTheBone Jun 2013 #11

So is the sun. wtmusic Jun 2013 #39

You are going to equate sunlight and nuclear BlueToTheBone Jun 2013 #40

I can't do that, can I. wtmusic Jun 2013 #44

If we cannot build a solar cell with no moving parts Downwinder Jun 2013 #3

You lost me at Democracyinkind Jun 2013 #4

Thats why I switched to Burning Coal. bahrbearian Jun 2013 #5

My, my intaglio Jun 2013 #7

Someone woke up on the dumb shit side of the bed this morning, eh? MjolnirTime Jun 2013 #8

Do you mean the New York Times, or do you mean the people who can't understand the words in it? n/t NNadir Jun 2013 #19

Like the proverbial bad penny, you just keep turning up, don't you? kestrel91316 Jun 2013 #9

Sounds to me like you have a dog in this fight. Starboard Tack Jun 2013 #12

They DO last Yo_Mama Jun 2013 #13

NNadir would you buy Nuclear fission reactors from China & install it in your home state? FogerRox Jun 2013 #15

Excellent point wtmusic Jun 2013 #16

That would be wind. & who is the number 1 turbine manufacturer in the world? FogerRox Jun 2013 #17

To stay on topic wtmusic Jun 2013 #18

You are aware - actually I doubt it - that all of the magnets in every damn gas entrenching wind... NNadir Jun 2013 #35

The Chinese are world leaders in the construction of nuclear reactors today. NNadir Jun 2013 #22

LOL! jpak Jun 2013 #46

A side-effect of China's massive PV boom NickB79 Jun 2013 #20

That was my first thought as well. GreenPartyVoter Jun 2013 #31

Um, uh, they come with a warranty against this sort of defect. Warren Stupidity Jun 2013 #21

Um, um, um...making worthless toxic junk over and over and over because it can't be manufactured... NNadir Jun 2013 #24

Flame bait and overall RW nuttery in his seven sentences of commentary. He started another flame war Kolesar Jun 2013 #23

It's too bad that the "I hear what I want to hear" squad can't alert a DU Jury to articles in the... NNadir Jun 2013 #25

The NY Times is RW Nuttery? Renew Deal Jun 2013 #26

they have their share rurallib Jun 2013 #29

See for example their cheer leading the Iraq war. Warren Stupidity Jun 2013 #30

Key words: "his" and "commentary" ... eom Kolesar Jun 2013 #33

"RW nuttery?" caraher Jun 2013 #32

It is classic "RW nuttery" kristopher Jun 2013 #34

Nuclear is certainly his obsession; but that's not the issue. caraher Jun 2013 #36

"RW nuttery" is rooted in their methodology kristopher Jun 2013 #41

I'm not sure the choice is Solar vs. Nukes Renew Deal Jun 2013 #27

That article is worthless as a measure of the actual failure rate of solar panels. kristopher Jun 2013 #42

There's no such thing as a competition between solar and nuclear energy. NNadir Jun 2013 #47

k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. Laelth Jun 2013 #28

NNadir was pre-emptively hostile muriel_volestrangler Jun 2013 #45

When a solar cell fails, how many pregnancies end up in birth defects? BlueStreak Jun 2013 #37

Depends on how much cadmium in the replaced panel enters the food chain. wtmusic Jun 2013 #38

Simple fix - mandatory recycling. kristopher Jun 2013 #43