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(A better Solyndra – How to double U.S. solar power for no extra money)

A better Solyndra – How to double U.S. solar power for no extra money Leave Picking Winners and Losers to Venture Capitalists The Solyndra debacle grabs so much attention because it’s such a sensational example of the government picking winners and losers, and because it’s loudly wielded as a weapon against the Obama administration. The latter fact is silly considering that the Department of Energy Loan program, what funded Solyndra’s loan guarantee, was actually started by President G.W. Bush. The program’s mission is to “accelerate the domestic commercial deployment of innovative and advanced clean energy,” – and provides loan guarantees to certain companies it chooses to. This means that private banks can fund the companies at low interest rates because, in the event of bankruptcy, Uncle Sam will foot the bill (the program actually set aside $10 billion to cover these l...

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@M_BornConsultor » 21 Oct '12, 10pm
Subsidizing demand generation is more effective than subsidizing upstream supply chain [link]
@davellorens » 17 Oct '12, 7pm
Wrote another Solyndra Article: [link]
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Supply affects broadly, incr tech dev (like it has for Asia). MT @MarcGunther Right way to subsidize #solar energy? [link] …
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RT @MarcGunther: The right way to subsidize #solar energy: interesting argument [link]
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The right way to subsidize #solar energy: interesting argument [link]
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