The US paranoia around Chinese firm Huawei is getting ludicrous. This week a group of 11 US senators have called for a ban on solar panel inverters in the US, and could potentially call for all the installed inverter base to be replaced. An inverter simply changes an electrical source from DC to AC current. It is hard to imagine the kind of danger that a humble inverter can represent to the almost non-existent solar panel market in the US (under 2GW per annum and 14 GW in total). Are we supposed to expect an inverter to be switched off remotely by attacking Chinese hostiles in the event of an invasion? Or as a pre-emptive strike against imposed tariffs? If…