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We should probably start manufacturing more of the vital components. EU countries can absolutely make solar panels and batteries from ore to end product, they just choose the economic strategy of importing it from whoever makes it cheapest with no regards to security considerations. Being this dependent on one single country that is also a systemic rival is a phenomenally bad idea.
There is still one Belgian company producing solar panels Belga Solar fyi. Germany used to be leading like 20 years ago in it’s production, maybe they have one there too?
But at this point in time we should be more focusing on electro storage, as most of Europe already has ( 99% Chinese) solar pannels. Afaik, it will take still some years to extract thre critical components ( Scandinavia), which is currently the bottleneck in the battery proces iiuc.
Batteries might be more important for the near future, but solar panels don’t last forever. Germany does still have solar panel manufacturers, but it’s not necessarily easy/fast to scale this up, plus IDK how well they’re doing with all the control electronics/software - the EU doesn’t have a big chip industry, either.
Yeah, we’ll probably need to scale up critical infrastructure ( and thus our elektro industry) and/or diversify trade, as EU has recently been trying to do.
Well, we need our business leaders to stop fucking their own by sending work to China for a bigger profit margin.
Businesses could never be counted on to make decisions in favor of public interest. That’s what governments are supposed to do.
Well businesses control the government, so I guess we have to behead company leaders who try to control the government.
