Friday, December 31, 2021

Polysilicon

Many of the products that US consumers use are made from parts that are produced by slave labor in China's Xinjiang Province. Polysilicon is one example of many hundreds of products. People are forced to produce polysilicon for solar panels in China. Over 100,000 Uyghurs, ethnic Kazkhs and other Muslim minorities are subjected to forced labor in China following detention in re-education camps. Workers often from poor rural areas are placed in factories in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. China is the world's largest producer of solar grade polysilicon and half the production is made in Xingjiang. Are people in the west who are pushing solar aware of what is happening? Just one more reason to look at thorium for our electricity needs but first we must disconnect climate change from social change. Are the politicians willing to do this or is slave labor in China not their concern.

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