coolfilmaker
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It seems pretty likely to happen at this point. Will they be shut down or made free or sold to another company?
coolfilmaker said:It seems pretty likely to happen at this point. Will they be shut down or made free or sold to another company?
TonyWilliams said:coolfilmaker said:It seems pretty likely to happen at this point. Will they be shut down or made free or sold to another company?
If its bankruptcy, that would up to the court. I would assume they would ask for some reorganization, and not dissolution.
CWO4Mann said:An interesting possibility would be if Ecotality does the "abandon in place" route for installed equipment.
smkettner said:Become boat anchors? Are we not already half way there today?
Heck, this could be part of their strategy!evnow said:Most likely they will be taken over by another company. They have the invaluable contract with DOE (i.e. valuable for established players like GE, not for upstarts like ecotality).
smkettner said:Become boat anchors? Are we not already half way there today?
CWO4Mann said:Some of them are, but if you look at the threads herein which talk to the technical aspects of the Blink L2, we know we can open them up and gut them of almost everything turn them into a demand charger. Sort of like those Open EVSE gizmos -- which if I had known about them before I got the Blink I would have built one.smkettner said:Become boat anchors? Are we not already half way there today?
TomT said:I think there would be a decent market for the Open EVSE all assembled and ready to go. Just attach the J1772 cord, attach the power to it, and mount the tri-color status indicator somewhere on the panel. Clean and simple.
CWO4Mann said:Some of them are, but if you look at the threads herein which talk to the technical aspects of the Blink L2, we know we can open them up and gut them of almost everything turn them into a demand charger. Sort of like those Open EVSE gizmos -- which if I had known about them before I got the Blink I would have built one.smkettner said:Become boat anchors? Are we not already half way there today?
CWO4Mann said:.... Like the Solyndra scandal, everything would be sold to the highest bidder. But would the entire tapestry of chargers be sold as one "unit" or would the people who won the land or buildings at which the chargers are deployed buy them? How about this one, since Ecotality would be gone the way of Solyndra, the courts come in and seize every Blink unit installed and auction them off on the courthouse steps. Every Blink unit includes the ones in our garages, of course. On the other hand, maybe Warren Buffoonish will come to the rescue.
Dave, whose Blink Unit will only be taken from My Cold Dead Hands.
thankyouOB said:CWO4Mann said:.... Like the Solyndra scandal, everything would be sold to the highest bidder. But would the entire tapestry of chargers be sold as one "unit" or would the people who won the land or buildings at which the chargers are deployed buy them? How about this one, since Ecotality would be gone the way of Solyndra, the courts come in and seize every Blink unit installed and auction them off on the courthouse steps. Every Blink unit includes the ones in our garages, of course. On the other hand, maybe Warren Buffoonish will come to the rescue.
Dave, whose Blink Unit will only be taken from My Cold Dead Hands.
scandal?
I thought Solyndra got priced out of its business model with an innovative idea for solar panels when China began underpricing the market.
Companies fail when “the bottom of the market falls out,” Dr. Chu testified before a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. That, he said, is what happened to the solar panel business, for two reasons that he maintained could not be foreseen.
“This company and several others got caught in a very, very bad tsunami,” he said. New plants to manufacture solar panels started up in China and elsewhere, while the market for the panels was softening because of economic troubles in Europe. Prices dropped 70 percent in two and a half years, he said. ....
Dr. Chu also stressed that private investors had put more than half a billion dollars into Solyndra, which had a new design for lightweight solar modules.
“When it comes to the clean energy race, America faces a simple choice: compete or accept defeat,” he said. “I believe we can and must compete.”
His prepared testimony also made an indirect dig at some members of Congress. “We appreciate the support the loan programs have received from many members of Congress — including nearly 500 letters to the department — who have urged us to accelerate our efforts and to fund worthy projects in their states,” the statement said.
That and perhaps even more so, cheap natural gas.thankyouOB said:scandal?
I thought Solyndra got priced out of its business model with an innovative idea for solar panels when China began underpricing the market.
Not that I think the natural gas boom is a conspiracy, but with respect to oil it's worth remembering that each time the West has seriously moved towards energy independence the oil states have temporarily reduced oil prices enough to lure us back into complacency - and back into gas guzzlers.Solyndra’s failure wasn’t just the result of manufacturing problems. It was also a product of a broad shift that was happening in the US energy sector. The financial models that had justified the massive investments in clean-energy sources were built on assumptions that the price of fossil fuels, in particular natural gas, would continue to rise. But those models began to fall apart as a natural gas boom transformed the energy landscape.
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