Comments on: Polysilicon production already moving out of Xinjiang, but China still dominates

By: McWarMachine

McWarMachine — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 15:07:08 +0000

It’s almost like the west doesn’t want to be green.

Your military contractors sponsors think tanks like ASPI to generate “reports”, your NED and USAGM funded NGO/Media report “forced labour”. If it’s not Adrian Zenz (fundamental Christian), it’s ASPI (sponsor by Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Thales, Raytheon), if it’s not ASPI, it’s world Uyghur Congress (NED funded). Your head of pentagon hold a massive bag of Raytheon shares.

Given American history, it’s no wonder Americans can’t imagine a country harvesting cotton by any means other than slave labour… Even when it’s now entirely automated, and slave would be uneconomical/unproductive.

But hey, it’s best if we all drown than to admit that US hegemony is cancer right?

By: Jason S

Jason S — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 09:44:59 +0000

In reply to Jason. you are the man awake.

By: Solarman

Solarman — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 21:20:09 +0000

In reply to Kelly Pickerel.

Looked at the REC site and it has been kept up and revised in 2021, but there was one statement, “..The Norwegian polysilicon maker..” perhaps it has signed a multi-year MOU with China and would be more to the point of not being able to manufacture for any other entity other than the original MOU. Tariffs would make the products price prohibitive and now perhaps legally produced in America polysilicon, but, “Chinese” polysilicon contracted to China. The site also mentions this site has been in operations since the 1980’s. From the way the REC web site states, products as polysilicon and it looks like crystalline ingots and wafers for electronics and also silane gases for manufacturing.

Perhaps Corporate America has been looking at this all wrong. Miasole I believe in some form is still in business, Nanosolar took off like a rocket in reel to reel printed CIGS panels, expanded to Germany then filed for bankruptcy. I find it interesting that these early manufacturing attempts still have viable chemistry and manufacturing “treatises” as to how to manufacture a product from raw elements to finished product. First Solar found a successful niche in thin film panels, it is time to take this “role model” into the CIGS and perovskite tandem panel manufacturing arena.

By: Kelly Pickerel

Kelly Pickerel — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 20:08:29 +0000

In reply to Solarman. Because there are no American wafer or cell companies to take REC's polysilicon.

By: Solarman

Solarman — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 20:05:38 +0000

The “thing” that bothers me about the U.S. manufacturing of polysilicon, is the dynamics over the past say 30 years, where Corporations start up manufacturing in the U.S., get tax credits from “technology incubator” programs and after a few years, off shore this manufacturing using the inverted tax program. This is why the big deal over Trump’s Federal taxes were said to be $750 dollars, the loop holes are there and there have been many Congresses that could have taken care of this problem, but didn’t.

As far as I know REC in Washington State is still intact and ready to manufacture product using cheap hydro-electric power. If this is such a big deal, then why isn’t REC online and feeding polysilicon to the American market today?

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 19:05:05 +0000

Ever visited any polysilicon factory? It is too dangerous and detrimental to use any careless person, not to mention forced labor. What a joke!

Search the almost idled Wacker Charleston for all kinds of explosions.