Solyndra's Thin-Film Solar Cells Draw $1.2 Billion In Orders

SolarSells writes "Solyndra makes funky-looking cylindrical solar cells that resemble compact fluorescent lightbulbs. Their products are meant for office buildings, and are made from a thin coating of copper indium gallium diselenide on glass tubes. Although they might not be able to fill them till 2012, the company has already received $1.2 billion in orders. Their manufacturing tricks make the cells so cheap that they may be competitive with other forms of power even after solar subsidies are phased out."

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Re:Glass tubes?

[Hairy Heron]

Yeah because no one probably ever thought of putting protection up for these solar arrays for situations like that. Good thing we had you around so that you could point out this problem that no one else in the rest of the world ever thought of.