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Solyndra was a manufacturer of cylindrical panels of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin film solar cells. It was based in Fremont, California . In 2009, the Obama administration co-signed $535 million in loans to Solyndra.
Michael D. Shellenberger (born June 16, 1971) is an author and journalist who writes on a wide range of topics including free speech, homelessness, and the environment. He is the first endowed professor at the University of Austin, serving as CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech. [1]
CIGS is a I-III-VI 2 compound semiconductor material composed of copper, indium, gallium, and selenium.The material is a solid solution of copper indium selenide (often abbreviated "CIS") and copper gallium selenide, with a chemical formula of CuIn x Ga (1−x) Se 2, where the value of x can vary from 1 (pure copper indium selenide) to 0 (pure copper gallium selenide).
Kaiser's family foundation was a large investor in the now-defunct Solyndra Corporation. The company has revealed that the foundation invested $340 million in the venture in July 2009, and subsequently gave preferential consideration to a plant site proposed for an economically depressed area of North Tulsa.
Solyndra was the first recipient of such a guarantee under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and the company went bankrupt. [139] In January 2012, The Wall Street Journal said AFP's Solyndra campaign was "perhaps the biggest attack on Mr. Obama so far in the 2012 election campaign."
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Spinner was born and grew up in North Woodmere, New York.He received his BA from Wesleyan University in 1991, where he majored in economics and classics. At Wesleyan he ran cross country for four years, was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa and won the school’s Maynard Award as the top scholar-athlete. [3]
Solyndra's gamble was that it could uses materials that were relatively cheap (and the raw cost of the C,I,G, and S are indeed quite low) in a panel design that was cheap to install (which it really was, actually) and make a product that would have a very low cost per kilowatt-hour.