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Nanosolar vs. Solyndra – Thin Film Smackdown!
By MB-BigB | December 23, 2008
Early this year, Solyndra started showing off its tubular thin film solar cells and announced a bunch of big contracts to boot. Now Nanosolar, the best known thin film maker, our apparently getting themselves in a bit of a snit over it. According to Greentechmedia, Nanosolar CEO Martin Roscheisen wrote an article in his blog in which he took aim at an unnamed competitor (but it clearly sounded like Solyndra) – basically saying that they could do the same thing if they wanted to, but they don’t want to.
“After all, if there is something that makes business sense about the tubular product concept, we’d surely be the ideal company to manufacture it at lowest cost and bring it to the market in volume!”
If you want to read Martin Roscheisen’s blog post, go here.
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- CIGS thin film solar cell hits 19.9% efficiency – a record
- Solyndra gets deal to put solar panels on Southern California big box stores
- GE targeting First Solar in battle for film thin sales
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Topics: Solar Power | 1 Comment »
March 24th, 2009 at 4:38 am
[...] thin film solar panels and has been engaged in a bit of a war of words with Nanosolar (see Thin Film Smackdown!), has just been awarded a Department of Energy $535 million load guarantee. Solyndra plans to use [...]