[ExI] Bosch exits Solar business in Germany

[Kelly Anderson]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:38 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>
>>  > there are no advancing PV technologies in the USA.
>
>
> True, Solyndra had very advanced technology but apparently it wasn't
> advanced enough because it went bankrupt in 2011.

Solyndra, if I understand correctly, was just manufacturing plain old
fashioned solar panels.

> In other words Germany has stopped lying to the free market and now
> everybody knows that in reality electricity from the sun is much more
> expensive than previously thought.

Yeah!!! Go John!

> OK, then there is no point in people in the USA worrying about it and
> whatever will be will be.
>
>> > If solar doesn't succeed, we're dead.
>
>
> If solar doesn't succeed, and recent developments make one think that maybe
> just maybe it isn't the next big thing after all, then it might be wise to
> have a plan B like nuclear energy and a plan C like methane clathrate ready
> to go. Your plan B and that of all environmentalists is freeze to death in
> the dark. It might be wise to at least talk about other ways to produce
> energy than solar just in case; I mean if we're dead anyway what is there to
> loose?

Frak baby frak!

-Kelly