Having ridden motorbikes for years , I learned a long time ago not to split between two large vehicles . I almost got squished between two buses once and that kind of experience is something you don ' t forget in a hurry . <| sep |> Yes it does , it ' s more expensive to produce solar panels in almost every nation because of heavy enviromental regulation and lack of state subsidizes . The enviromental effects of solar panel production are well known , and China ignores it so they can get that sweet sweet liberal support . Completely ignore that it ' s probably more enviromentally friendly to use coal power than dig for the resources used in solar panels also ignore the large need to mine for batteries in the near future