Small-scale solar panels about the size of a door are poised to be plugged into more U.S. homes and apartments as homeowners and renters who want to harness the sun’s energy look for cheaper alternatives to rooftop installations.
  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    9 days ago

    The price threw me, it’s just unbelievable that it’s that expensive for a battery-less 400 watt system. This moron got taken.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      9 days ago

      Yup, got ripped off hard. Are there import restrictions in the US that prevent people from buying dirrctly from china? Because most likely this 2000$ one is just a rebranded kit from China anyway.

      • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        Tariffs, of course. Trump is doing the fossil fuel industry’s bidding trying to kill all renewables.

        • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 days ago

          Solar panels got tariffed by Biden a couple month before trump took office.

          I believe it was because they determined that Vietnam was dumping panels at below cost, which is deemed an unfair trade practice. I noticed this because I preemptively bought a couple panels before trump was inaugurated, and like a week after I did, the tariff was announced.