So Long, Solyndra

Back in May, I used Obama's visit to a solar plant in California as a springboard to launch into a lament about the unsustainable nature of the "green-energy economy." I figured that at some point the plant, like so many bankrupt ethanol companies before it, would illustrate my point quite nicely. I just didn't realize it would happen so soon: SAN FRANCISCO - Solyndra, a Silicon Valley solar-panel maker that won half a billion dollars in federal aid to build a state-of-the-art robotic factory, plans to announce on Wednesday that it will shut down an older plant and lay off workers. The
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