BP Solar Closes Thin Film Operations [RE-wrenches]

[Tom Lane, Energy Conservation Services]

Is thin film technology a dead end road.  Is it time to abandon thin
technology as a viable large scale power technology. I would like to know of
any large scale thin film technology that have monitored results from a
third party independent source that is more than 5 years old . My suspicions
are that like the early days of the widespread solar thermal commercial
cooling systems 1980 to 1985 THAT WERE ALL I REPEAT ALL A MISERABLE FAILURE
that there has been a cover up of massive failures in this thin film module
and roofing technology because it is so easy to get government grants for
this futuristic technology . When I try to get reports on the SOLAR SOURCE
house in  ATLANTA ( Mr..Primm   sent roger there undercover ) or any  Where
else that is more than five years old ----- there is no monitoring and no
one who can give me an answer . Does the emperor have any clothes after five
years or is this thin film power module  and roofing technology a black hole
for government funding and organized grant writers to waylay the  growth in
money coming into the solar industry .  GATOR TOM Message -----
From: "Joel Davidson" <joeldavidson at earthlink.net>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: BP Solar Closes Thin Film Operations [RE-wrenches]


> BP announces that it is not "a company with a longer term strategy and
vision."
> See http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story?storyid=3207
>
> Joel Davidson wrote:
>
> > I think the people at NREL are right. See the NCPV Hotline 11-28-2002
Special
> > Edition for the National Center for Photovoltaics' statement concerning
the BP
> > Solar announcement to stop making thin film at
> > http://www.nrel.gov/ncpv/hotline.html#latest
> >
> > Also see http://www.ecoworld.org/Home/articles2.cfm?TID=259
> >
> > I'd like to talk to Sir John Browne, Chairman of BP, about moving the
thin film
> > factory equipment to Los Angeles and letting this Yank give it a try.
Anyone
> > know his direct phone number?
> >
> > Joel Davidson
> >
> > Bill Brooks wrote:
> >
> > > Joel,
> > >
> > > "What a wonderful world this could be...." Ironic isn't it. The good
news is
> > > that any money they extorted out of those lawsuits they lost in their
a-Si
> > > manufacturing venture when they couldn't make it work. Maybe that's
what
> > > just desserts are... I guess sueing wasn't the path to big profits.
> > >
> > > Bill.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Joel Davidson [mailto:joeldavidson at earthlink.net]
> > > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 6:04 PM
> > > To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> > > Subject: Re: BP Solar Closes Thin Film Operations [RE-wrenches]
> > >
> > > Some of you may remember that Solarex sued APS (former owner of the
> > > Fairfield, CA building that BP now occupies) and sued Siemens Solar
and sued
> > > Utility Power Group (Mike Stern's amorphous PV company) for infringing
on an
> > > old RCA amorphous silicon PV patent that Solarex had licensed. Solarex
won
> > > the law suit, forced those three companies to shut down their aSi
operations
> > > and then started pushing Millennium Modules thanks to the $0.75/W
subsidy
> > > that Virginia gave to them.
> >
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