[ExI] Bosch exits Solar business in Germany

Giovanni Santostasi gsantostasi at gmail.com
Tue Mar 26 22:52:43 UTC 2013


Would the oil industry be so successful without massive tax cuts and
subsides from the government?
Giovanni

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> >> http://phys.org/news/2013-03-bosch-abandon-solar-energy-business.html
>
> Here is the first comment on that article:
>
> "This is exactly what happens when governments try and push a
> technology that is not ready for large scale manufacturing.
> Fundamental research is still underway and is needed to be much
> further along prior to the advent of mass production of efficient and
> cheap solar panels. Will it be ready next week? Not likely. Will it be
> ready for that in 10 years? Probably. It's a shame most politicians
> are lawyers (at least in the U.S.) and not businessmen, engineers, or
> scientists. Any of those three actually understand how this works!"
>
>
> I could not have said it better myself. Solar has been propped up
> unnaturally by government interference for years. They can never
> succeed until they can succeed on their own.
>
> -Kelly
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