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Solar Factories: Big or Small?
Should factories be big or small? It depends what you are making.Some execs like Charlie Gay at Applied Materials have advocatedsupersizing cell manufacturing facilities. To cut costs and gaineconomies of scale, they argue that the thing to do is build cellfacilities that produce over a gigawatt of cells a year and consumenearly a ton of [...]
What Went Wrong at Optisolar?
It all made sense. On paper. OptiSolar, the mushrooming solar outfit that seemed destined for success just weeks before its dotcom-likeimplosion, had raised millions – at least $322 million according to areview of Securities and Exchange Commission documents – to realize avision of solar manufacturing laid out nearly five years ago in a paper published [...]