Solar manufacturing is one example of how incredibly automated some parts of the clean tech industry is. Here's the manufacturing process at Jinko, one of the largest Chinese solar firms, where parts are just passed along from one robot to the next--by other robots.

Apr 18, 2024 · 3:36 PM UTC

Solar manufacturing has been highly automated for a long time, back to the early days of China's solar manufacturing boom in the 2000s. Here's the full video: youtube.com/watch?v=PME47LDF…
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This is the kind of thing I point to when people say Chinese companies are only competitive because they’re subsidized. They are indeed subsidized, but they’re also genuinely efficient! That combination is why they dominate without trade barriers in place.
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Yet American pundits still insist that the solar panels from China are only possible because of "slave labor".
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With all the advanced automatic manufacturing process, how will we anticipate diminished demand for workers in the future?