Workers install solar panels at a photovoltaic power station in Hami in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Monday Aug. 22, 2011. The Biden administration’s solar power ambitions are colliding with complaints the global industry depends on Chinese raw materials that might be produced by forced labor. One big hurdle is polysilicon from Xinjiang, commonly used to make photovoltaic cells for solar panels. (Chinatopix via AP) “Our neck is stretched over the fence and OPEC has a knife.” This was President Jimmy Carter quoting an American he met as part of a speech during the energy crisis in 1979. […]

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