We should be buying our windfarms from China, obviously

A report:

Chinese companies boast what one industry insider dubbed a “landslide” price advantage over their Western counterparts. Their products cost less than half — and sometimes as little as a quarter — of Western equivalents.

Therefore we should buy Chinese windplants, right?

Major industry players told the Financial Times in September that European wind turbine manufacturers were “financially struggling and cutting jobs.” And last year, five Western firms warned in an open letter to the European Commission that they were “losing ground” to Chinese companies.

“It’s on price and financing conditions that the Europeans are really, really struggling,” when pitted against Chinese firms in third markets, Pierre Tardieu, Chief Policy Officer at WindEurope, a trade group, told me.

There are those - the EU is trying to insist on domestic content rules for renewable energy installations for example - who insist that such things must be home made. But this is entirely wrong.

Not just because saving money by buying cheap is a good idea in the first place. But because of what Nick Stern told us. Dealing with climate change will cost money. Humans do less of more expensive things, more of cheaper. Therefore we must be efficient in dealing with climate change so as to do more - not less - dealing with climate change.

We should be buying Chinese windmills not just because we’re hateful neoliberals, not just to count the change, but because saving Gaia depends upon buying Chinese windmills. So, let’s do that then.