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by DanBC 4637 days ago
I'm a bit surprised that China has produced too many panels. People keep talking about the coming eco-apocalypse from countries like India and China becoming more developed and needing more electricity, and not having the capacity to generate that cleanly.

Chinese mining has a lousy safety record, even for a dangerous industry. (15 people PER DAY dying just from volatile gases, in 2010) Anything that offloads electricity generation from dangerous mining for coal powered stations is a good thing for China. So I'm not sure why they're not just putting these solar panels on every roof.

(http://www.wvcoalmining.com/coal-news/reducing-chinese-coal-...)

(http://www.mining.com/coal-mining-deaths-in-china-lead-to-mo...)

(http://www.scanimetrics.com/condition-monitoring-news/13-equ...)