is even more impressive how did this happen that's been a long story but it's unbelievable up grigory nemat has written a book about there's. no one country did it it was a strange of one country building on another one the us created the technology the modern day solar cell made from silicon was invented in us a 954 but then it mainly got used in the space industry and they're still super expensive but as the technology progressed prices started to fall to germany created a market in 2000 germany passed a law to boost renewable energy developing this was me because they put a fixed price and energy generated from sources like wind or solar people and companies a reason to set up solar panels and for them to do that someone needed to build the solar panels 3 china made it. once the german laws come into force china really started to pump help us solace. so the whole industry for this on a scale that the west really didn't keep up with. the non existant player 20 years ago in today and they're the biggest producer of solar panels about 70 percent of the world's production so this is how we e