Comment by mantas

IMO it's conflict of interest of some short-sighted naive idealists vs people who want to get stuff done.

For example, solar. Shit ton of euromoneys is poured into subsidies. But those subsidies are not geofenced. Thus vast majority of people go for chinese stuff. It could have been much better to subsidise locally produced components only. Then price would be +/- the same.

Now chinese components are dirt cheap with all the subsidies. I myself went for chinese components, because break-even period was like 5 vs 10 years. I'll just pihole the inverter from calling home once I figure out how to get some statistics without the manufacturer's app.

I guess some people decided it's better to get 2-3x more solar installed power ASAP rather than prop up the local solar industry.