Biden's absurd energy policy would trade dependence on Russia, for dependence on China

 Washington Free Beacon:

The Biden administration’s push to transition to green energy sources is highly dependent on supply chains from China, according to a new Department of Energy report that comes as the White House has promoted renewables as a way to decrease reliance on Russian oil.

China controls "97 percent of the world’s production of silicon wafers" used in solar panels, "roughly 80 percent of rare earths production and refining" used in wind turbines, and "61 percent of global lithium refining key for battery storage and electric vehicles," according to the DOE report, which studied the supply chains for major alternative energy sources to determine how the administration can promote more domestic production.
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"We need to reduce our dependence … on oil in general, and we need to look at other ways of having energy in our country and others," Psaki said on Sunday.

The Biden administration said it is aiming to fully delink the U.S. electricity industry from carbon energy sources by 2035, forecasting in September that at least 40 percent of the sector will shift to solar power.

But according to the Department of Energy report, "the global [photovoltaic] supply chain is almost entirely dependent on ingot and wafers from China," which holds a monopoly on crystalline silicon (c-Si), the dominant technology used to produce solar panels. The report said alternative technologies are unlikely to overtake c-Si within the next decade.
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Biden seems to have fallen for the Climate Kook's narrative and can't seem to return to reality. 

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