<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Two years ago in 2009 just before the government invested in<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>Solyndra they received a report from the Energy Department warning that even if the company got the loan guarantee from the government they wanted Solyndra would run out of money in September 2011.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> </span>They went ahead and gave them the money, our money, anyway. <br><br>Now for something completely different, in China about 500 people demonstrated in front of a factory protesting the factory's pollution. The pollution must have been really horrible because it takes a certain amount of courage to participate in a demonstration of that sort in China. Incidentally the plant made solar panels.    <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a
 href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/world/asia/china-shuts-solar-panel-factory-after-anti-pollution-protests.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/world/asia/china-shuts-solar-panel-factory-after-anti-pollution-protests.html</a><br><br>  John K Clark<br><br><br></span><span class="BodyCopy"><b style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66"></b></span></td></tr></table>