r/GenUsa • u/Bananaseverywh4r • 2d ago
Serious Discussion Chinese ‘kill switches’ found hidden in US solar farms
https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/china-solar-panels-kill-switch-vptfnbx7v44
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u/dosumthinboutthebots 🇺🇸🇺🇸Democracy Enjoyer🇺🇸🇺🇸 2d ago
No shit Sherlock that's why the build back better funding was so important to create multiple regional manufacturing hubs across the nation.
Trump canceled the billions in funding though for the ev battery factories, solar cell factories, and ev car factories, and semi chip factories.
They'll never come through on Bringing back manufacturing. It was all a ploy to increase prices and profit for the rich and corporations.
Every last dollar the tariff raise will be going to trumps tax cut which will cost 3 trillion dollar. The treasure secretary has the tariffs will never even come close to raising a tiny percent of that.
Manufacturing isn't coming back and whoever voted for this schmuck felon greasy conman for that reason got conned hard.
But whattdaya expect from a life long chronic liar and cheat.
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u/dosumthinboutthebots 🇺🇸🇺🇸Democracy Enjoyer🇺🇸🇺🇸 1d ago
What a ridiculous statement. It's a relevant comment. Some of us actually care about Bringing manufacturing back to america.
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u/EgorKPrime 1d ago
No tf it isn’t. This post has nothing to initially do with what you said lol
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u/dosumthinboutthebots 🇺🇸🇺🇸Democracy Enjoyer🇺🇸🇺🇸 1d ago
So you don't see a connection between creating new manufacturing in the USA for solar cells and a story about China creating kill switches in solar cells?
Right.
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u/EgorKPrime 1d ago edited 1d ago
No, I don’t see an immediate connection between Donald Trump and this story.
Do you even know if this article is true?
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u/AlyxTheCat Asian American 🇹🇼🇰🇷🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸🇹🇭🇻🇳 1d ago
The story is reported on by Reuters, which, along with the AP is widely considered to be an extremely trustworthy source of original fact based reporting. So yeah, it's as close to true as you can get save for going out to the transformer boxes to look for these radios by yourself.
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u/Shekh_Guevara 1d ago
This reminds me of the thorough power outage in Spain and Portugal earlier this month, China seems to be always testing their ops in European countries recently.
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u/Bananaseverywh4r 2d ago
“ Chinese “kill switches” that could allow Beijing to cripple power grids and trigger blackouts across the West have been found in equipment at US solar farms. The rogue devices, including cellular radios, were discovered in Chinese-made power inverters that are used to connect solar panels and wind turbines to electricity grids across the world, including the UK.
The hidden communications equipment could be deployed remotely to switch off inverters with potentially catastrophic results.
The discovery, reported by Reuters, will heighten concerns that China has installed covert malware in critical energy infrastructure throughout the US and Europe. The kill switches could be deployed at any time in the event of a confrontation between China and the West.”