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Re: TJ Rodgers disses nano-science solar companies

Steve Sadlov — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:52:52 -0000

Once TJ Cypressizes and commoditizes photovoltaics, all the pretenders will indeed be taking an operational dirt nap. There is lots of BS in the "alternative energy" arena just now, fueled mostly by people stuck in the 1960s, entertaining Callenbachian utopian dreams. Meanwhile, a kick butt right wing business icon is doing it the brass tacks way and is ready to smoke the competition .... nothing but tail lights disappearing into the distance.

Re: TJ Rodgers disses nano-science solar companies

Alison Chaiken — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:37:44 -0000

Has Nanosolar even announced yet where there much anticipated fab is going to be? The previous SiliconBeat article said that the fab's location would be announced in "two to six weeks" and that was in June. By contrast, Sunpower's factory in the Philippines is open and producing devices. Nanosolar's technology sounds exciting but we won't really know until we see their products.

Re: TJ Rodgers disses nano-science solar companies

Steve B. — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:21:23 -0000

This is just classic TJ. Anyone who is at all familiar with him knows that he is a visionary with the gift for prose laced with modern day slang. I would not put it past Sunpower to drive Nanosolar into a small niche in the PV market but until the polysilicon supply issue is mitigated there will always be room for alternative PV technologies.

Re: TJ Rodgers disses nano-science solar companies

Matt Marshall — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:29:30 -0000

Thanks, URL is fixed.

Re: TJ Rodgers disses nano-science solar companies

Edward Miller — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:53:29 -0000

I believe the url is actually http://sunpowercorp.com/

Re: TJ Rodgers disses nano-science solar companies

Anna — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:12:48 -0000

Here's what Vinod Khosla wrote: "I love science because itâ€™s a huge multiplier of resources. It has the potential to do something not 10 percent better or 20 percent better but 100 times better, and that power is whatâ€™s so exciting to me."

So while SunPower is on the 10 percent improvement process-tuning schedule, Nanosolar is going for leveraging science to deliver the 100 times improvement factor.

Re: TJ Rodgers disses nano-science solar companies

Jeff Kempton — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:00:09 -0000

TJ Rogers must be really nervous about Nanosolar. It doesn't happen often that a public-company CEO gets so emotional and defensive about a pre-launch startup!