Chinese solar panels and batteries are cheap because of automation and a honed supply chain, not because of cheap labour.

Drawn from what Hannah Ritchie said

batteries Storage as the thing that decides how much intermittent generation is worth building.

On the topicHow cheap does solar get, and what does that change?under our view: Somebody has to make the panels, and where they are made decides the price

A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.

What Hannah Ritchie actually said

Word for word, with the source under each one. They did not write this page.

Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?

Cannot both be true

Most institutions that predate the internet will not survive it.

Ritchie credits China’s dominance of solar and batteries to a long-term industrial strategy and a honed supply chain — a state and its incumbent manufacturers doing exactly the kind of durable planning Srinivasan says pre-internet institutions can no longer do. It is the clearest live counterexample to the claim, and it is a counterexample about the technology that everything else runs on.

Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.