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Re:The coal mine that ate Hambacher forest by DocTomoe on Friday July 12, 2019 @07:44AM (#20419945)
> You are forgetting the part where RWE is also paying the income of a whole lot of miners, who would suddenly be without a job if the mines where to be closed.

In all fairness, Germany lost about four times as many jobs when we destroyed our solar industry.

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Re:The coal mine that ate Hambacher forest by freeflight on Friday July 12, 2019 @07:57AM (#20420016)
The only thing I'm aware off is that the Groko has been giving out way fewer licenses for PV installations, which has lead to a considerable slow-down in building out PV capabilities.

But afaik we didn't really destroy the industry, we just lost our edge [0], which has in part to do with industrial espionage [1], and in other parts with China simply out manufacturing anybody else as soon as they get the gist of building something.

[0] https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/wirtschaft/Der-Niederga...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial...

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Re:The coal mine that ate Hambacher forest by turbinerneiter on Friday July 12, 2019 @08:37AM (#20420218)
They ruined the home market, while China heavily subsidized theirs. It was a failure of politics.
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Re:The coal mine that ate Hambacher forest by hef19898 on Friday July 12, 2019 @09:51AM (#20420711)
That the German manufacturers were subsidy chasing production dilitantes did help neither. But yes, politicals played a role. Still do in solar to this day.
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