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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
I agree with whomever said it above: all these engineers seem like they'd be great at producing better and lots of wind/solar energy. There was a piece on CBC last night about silicon valley and how into solar they are - we have lots of sun and lots of engineers - why are we not building the crap out of these things?
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It's hard to compete against Chinese manufacturing and Alberta's manufacturing isn't really geared for silicon. Even Germany, one of the great manufacturing and research economies in the world couldn't compete and many of its solar producers formed to take advantage of its huge solar subsidies are now dead.
And Silicon Valley isn't making solar panels, at least not there, it's about selling them to utilities and consumers and taking advantage of subsidies and renewable mandates.