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Solyndra (SV Solar Startup that got $535m guarantee from govt) fails

3 pointsby pitdesiover 13 years ago

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salemhover 13 years ago
Wow..Last year they were hiring ~200+ engineering types of roles (our firm was trying to "get in" with recruiting for them). They were sort of a "standard" of "do you know Solyndra?" or "where do you see yourself in Solyndra's space?" re: EnPhase, a few manufacturers FOR solar tech, etc.<p>Solyndra's gig was commercial flat-root tech for solar.<p>"Solyndra could not achieve full-scale operations rapidly enough to compete in the near term with the resources of larger foreign manufacturers,"<p><a href="http://www.google.com/search?gcx=w&#38;sourceid=chrome&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;q=has+china+won+the+green+tech+race" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/search?gcx=w&#38;sourceid=chrome&#38;i...</a>