That is exactly what I ask about the $trillion bush/cheney war boondoggle.

along with the afganstan one and Libya with Obozo!!

Pretty sure Afghanistan was Bush.

I mean, unless the 7 years of war before Obama doesn't count.

Idiot.

no this is what happens when businesses try to create jobs. they can't. that is why the goverment needs to take over

You mean like the hundreds of billions of dollars of waste in Iraq and Afghanistan left over from the last president? Or the $22b/yr we spend on air conditioning the troops there?

Great point. Due to his lack of experience, he is easily sold on just about any idea.

It is not productive to denounce an entire source of green energy because our government either screwed up or was made a fool of. Our need to develop every energy source possible is much too critical to pooh pooh any one of them. If it turns out that some of them do not pay off as hoped and must be ruled out in the future, then there is time enough to do that. In the meantime we are send billions of our money to countries that do not have our best interests at heart and sometimes even use that money against us. Energy Independence is equally important as elimination of the National Debt, in my humble (or perhaps not so humble) opinion. While you point out some very realistic negatives in this story, I believe it is just part of the natural process of developing answers and moving forward on our overall goals.

not six months, but 99 weeks, right?

Unfortunately, the green sector is equally special interest, for the most part, because they are subsidized at taxpayer's expense. However, true energy renewable or energy efficient are never ever covered the by green sector, except in rare exceptions by well funded research in academia, such as MIT, etc. We have had a great deal of revolutionary products & entrepreneurs well capable of putting the so called green sector to shame (and they've been at it for a long time). Unfortunately, these technologies have been construed as too much of threat to the entrenched/established $6-7 Trillion energy infrastructure, and suppressed. However, that's changing, and will change in the foreseeable future, because it's becoming blatantly obvious that we can't no longer afford as business as usual. China, India, and other countries will take the lead, not because they've had a jump start on us, but because we're still preoccupied with conventional technologies, and often pooh pooh, anything that claims more efficiencies than conventional technologies.

China is giving bigger subsidies to its solar and energy tech companies. thats why china was able to undercut solyndra on prices and drive them out of business. its like how US farmers get massive subsidies and drive mexican farmers out of work.

I think what I and you have said combined and management fraud caused Solyndra Inc. doom.

how can any of these companys compete with chinese child labor for pennies a day if we dont wake up they will own us where is the tea party outrage idiots dont care

donald...we should raise the tax on these products, so that we can compete here in the united states.