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Research and development of mass fabrication of solar cells was halted on purpose.
Reason: It's a very convenient tech for off-grid living, in other words you can be very independent (not 100%, but it covers at least more than 50% if you aren't a retard). Sure it can't be used when the sun is down, but it can heat up water, charge batteries on devices and keep the fridge cold during the day. For a household, this is a lot. So this is obviously not something the government would like.
My suspicions:
Reason: It's a very convenient tech for off-grid living, in other words you can be very independent (not 100%, but it covers at least more than 50% if you aren't a retard). Sure it can't be used when the sun is down, but it can heat up water, charge batteries on devices and keep the fridge cold during the day. For a household, this is a lot. So this is obviously not something the government would like.
My suspicions:
- Astroturfed "political views" that it's not "efficient". Yeah, for industries and facilities, but not for houses. Everyone use the phrases of "muh can't have a electric car on solar" or "muh can't support industry facilities" and so on. Feels like it's cherry picked points to halt its availability (halting the growth of economic scaling). The tech itself can cover a lot of a house power usage over the day (do laundary, shower and cooking during the day)
- Inverters that can work offline costs twice as much as those that requires a reference signal. I don't believe for a second that generating such a signal would cost an additional of +$10000 minimum! Feels like it's an "anti-off-grid" artificial price, implemented to make solar cells less convenient tech for people who want to be off-grid. If the power goes down, most houses will lose their power too, even if you got solar pannels installed. This is because most people got the inverter that requires power from the grid for the "reference phase current". Everyone I talked to in this field don't know why this is the case. [If anyone knows something about this, please reply, I'm VERY curious to find a technical explaionation for why it's so costly to create a phase signal, becuase it really sounds like bullshit to me, this is what triggered me to write this "tinfoil hat" post]
- Fabrication of solar cells isn't that complicated. You need huge clean rooms for sure, but not in the same quality as for CPU chips (you can get away with a lot of short cuts with solar cells compared to computer chips). We have had these factories in the EU, but a lot of them have gone bankrupt/shut down due to everything being produced in China. The "rare earth metal" excuse isn't such a big deal either for solar cells (again short cuts, you can use cheaper elements that with CPU's), you can in theory build them only using elements from group 13 and 15 for silicon based solar cells, which are not rare at all.
- Middle East: So one meme you will hear about using solar is "why not in the Middle East", well it's because it's only exlusevly availbe for rich families and industry. The prices are inflated to make sure not some mud hut off-grid pleb doesn't have acceess to solar power (I head this joke too many times from Arabs to think it's not really a "joke"...). It got me thinking that perhaps... same shit is being pulled off here in the EU, but more subtile with the inverters being sold and the halting of building factories.
- In scandinavia: By law, you have to be connected to the grid. Yes, this is cut and through so you have to pay your electric bills not matter what. If you want solar power you are required (by law...) to have measure box when you sell the power to the grid. That box is not that expensive comapred to the inverter, but it still one of those bullshit componentes added due to the mandatory grid connections, making this whole thing even more expensive.
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