OptiSolar Crashes: Lessons for Greentech

(Blog Post) ... the faults of the struggling cleantech firms have been largely both underestimating how expensive it is to manufacture “stuff” and not being able to reach a large manufacturing scale quick enough before the credit crunch hit. It seemed as if OptiSolar had announced it was building one of the largest solar photovoltaic projects ever built at 550 MW, before it had even disclosed its funders or explained how its technology was superior to any competitors. Full Story »

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Fabrice Florin
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by Fabrice Florin - Mar. 25, 2009

Informative blog post about the failure of a once-popular solar manufacturing company. Good factual evidence and interesting analogy with the dot-com crash, but too few sources are provided to make this a full news report.

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