:icon_ditto: And then you have the Obama/Tax supported ones that go bust...can you say Solyndra:cus:
http://www.dailytech.com/500+Million...ticle22735.htm
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:icon_ditto: And then you have the Obama/Tax supported ones that go bust...can you say Solyndra:cus:
http://www.dailytech.com/500+Million...ticle22735.htm
Actually, the $500 Million taxpayer Solyndra debacle was just one of 30+ similar solar failures. Solyndra was the only one that got any press.
president-obamas-taxpayer-backed-green-energy-failures
The complete list of faltering or bankrupt green-energy companies:
Evergreen Solar ($25 million)*
SpectraWatt ($500,000)*
Solyndra ($535 million)*
Beacon Power ($43 million)*
Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)
SunPower ($1.2 billion)
First Solar ($1.46 billion)
Babcock and Brown ($178 million)
EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*
Amonix ($5.9 million)
Fisker Automotive ($529 million)
Abound Solar ($400 million)*
A123 Systems ($279 million)*
Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($700,981)*
Johnson Controls ($299 million)
Brightsource ($1.6 billion)
ECOtality ($126.2 million)
Raser Technologies ($33 million)*
Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*
Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*
Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*
Range Fuels ($80 million)*
Thompson River Power ($6.5 million)*
Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*
Azure Dynamics ($5.4 million)*
GreenVolts ($500,000)
Vestas ($50 million)
LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($151 million)
Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*
Navistar ($39 million)
Satcon ($3 million)*
Konarka Technologies Inc. ($20 million)*
Mascoma Corp. ($100 million)
Yea, I have a friend and riding buddy who worked for Solyndra in the Bay area, he started at the ground floor and was with them till the end, he used to brag how great they were and the future was now and we would all have solar panels on our houses in just a few years as the cost was going to drop dramatically....Hehe he got sucked in, but when they went tits up and he was out of a job it became another tune, he will not even say their name now without a cuss word in front and at the end :soapbox: