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> Yeah and making the solar panel, how green is that?

Depending from where you buy them, quiet green. Produced with 100% renewables, made in Germany with polysilicon made in Europe.

Why do you seem some emotional as if your identity is at stake here?

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> made in Germany

Not trying to defend the parent comment going off about bouncy castle, but I have a hard time believing that statement is true. This is the share of photovoltaic pannel production per region.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/668749/regional-distribu...

I am not saying that every panel is. I am just saying there are companies which do exactly what i claimed exists. In particular i was referring to Meyer-Burgers. This company was a developer of photovoltaic production machines which they sold around the world but they recently shifted to building and owning their own high automation "giga"factories and have plans to build them in various western countries producing premium, long lasting cells with top efficiency. Those panels are sold today too. By the end of 2022 they claim to >2.0 GW (with plans to extend it to 2.8ish GW) of solar panel manufacturing capacity which gives them 1.X% market share world wide. Since they are a publicly traded company we will learn whether they made it or not.

They also their own line of solar roof tiles in the pipeline.

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