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Brussels bars Chinese-made inverters in solar panels from EU funding (www.euractiv.com)

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[–] comrade_nomad@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Guns Routers and e-bike batteries

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but none of those were part of this article which was discussing solar inverters in large scale projects.

Guns are a regulatory thing, which over here in Europe they are a lot harder to get than when I lived in the US, but it is just a matter of joining a club and some paperwork at least in the country I'm in.

Routers could be related to the chip shortages with AI, and e-bike batteries would almost more seem like a supply and demand issue with their increased popularity these days.

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Correct me if I’m wrong here, but none of those were part of this article which was discussing solar inverters in large scale projects.

No, I was talking about protectionist policy in general, you are correct.

Routers could be related to the chip shortages with AI https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/foreign-made-wi-fi-routers-ban/

e-bike batteries would almost more seem like a supply and demand issue with their increased popularity these days.

I don't think the socialist global industrial powerhouse is having an issue with batteries.

[–] comrade_nomad@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago

No, I was talking about protectionist policy in general, you are correct.

Ah ok yea, then yes it would be an impact to you more broadly with those.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/foreign-made-wi-fi-routers-ban/

My bad, I was assuming you were also in Europe/talking about Europe. The US is a whole different set of "fun" in that way.

I don't think the socialist global industrial powerhouse is having an issue with batteries.

Correct, I should have been more explicit in calling it a localized supply and demand issue as the local retailers of the Chinese batteries are who I was meaning were having issues keeping supply on hand not that the actual producers couldn't keep up