The Chicom solar threat to the US

Blaze:

America is sleepwalking into disaster. The rush to renewables, pitched by many progressives as patriotism in action, is in fact tying America to its greatest rival.

The story is sold in sunny ads about cheaper power bills and endless solar arrays glistening on rooftops. The truth is much darker. Behind those panels, behind the inverters that hum quietly in basements and back yards, stands the Chinese Communist Party.

For Beijing, solar was never about saving the planet. It was about power. Billions in subsidies turned factories into arsenals, entire cities redesigned to churn out polysilicon wafers and panels at a scale the West could never rival. Today, the result is plain. Four out of five solar panels in the world are built in China. Even when an American installer stamps “Made in the USA” on a box, the guts are usually Chinese. The supply chain runs through Xinjiang, through state-backed giants, through companies that move at the command of the CCP.

The panels alone are only part of the story. The real danger lies in the hardware that makes them run. Inverters convert solar energy into usable power, but they also connect to the internet. That connection is sold as a feature: easy monitoring, remote diagnostics, seamless integration with smart homes.
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While wind and solar may make sense for those of are off the grid, it does not make much sense for those on the grid.  While I live in the country, I still have access to the grid, and it is much less expensive and probably more reliable. 

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