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China has flooded the market with so many solar panels that people are using them as garden fencing (www.businessinsider.com)
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Solar panels — 80% of which are made in China — are so cheap that they're now being used to line garden fences in Germany and the Netherlands, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

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[–] rdyoung@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They aren't as efficient as a single panel angled the right way, but when you can buy more panels for less and still generate the same or more power, that is a definition of efficiency.