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Perhaps it was some of the contagious mentality around at the time
that also killed GM's electric vehicle in favor of the
Hummer......Solar worked, they feared the end of the oil era, so
they had to kill it before the rest of the country found out.<br>
Not all bad, as some of those old Trilams and Quad lams are still
powering places all over the country.<br>
I definitely see cheap surplus PV in the long term future.....<br>
<br>
Ray<br>
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On 10/31/2011 8:12 PM, Chris Daum wrote:
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="156585801-01112011"><font
color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Marco:</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="156585801-01112011"><font
color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Maybe they did it so
people who had modest power requirements could meet their
needs with the M51s and mmmmm....RC2000s (is that right
folks)? Buying them in sets of four.... This was some of
the first technology that worked, and was rather cheaply
available at the time.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="156585801-01112011"></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="156585801-01112011"><font
color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I remember those old
acrylic-faced modules well, and shipped quite a
few...perhaps hundreds or thousands of them...for the solar
company I worked for at the time.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="156585801-01112011"></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="156585801-01112011"><font
color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">SO, IN THEORY, if the
later technologies are being dismembered (that's so harsh,
how about disassembled?) then those modules will be worth
something too.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="156585801-01112011"><font
color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I do not know why ARCO
scrapped what they did, but I suspect a corporate
perspective was part of the scene. At the time, it did me
and my then-customers good. After all, we know what PG
& E really stands for.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="156585801-01112011"><font
color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Just my 2 cents worth.</font></span></div>
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<p><font size="2">Chris Daum<br>
Oasis Montana Inc.<br>
406-777-4309<br>
406-777-0830 fax<br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org">re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org">mailto:re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Marco Mangelsdorf<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 31, 2011 7:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'RE-wrenches'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [RE-wrenches] ARCO Solar and Carrizo Plain<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Us old-timers remember the dismemberment of
the then big ARCO Solar grid-tie project down in So. CAL. In
the 1980s and the parting out of that project in dribs and
drabs for years.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was wondering recently with all these
ever so big and getting bigger grid-tie projects sprouting
like mushrooms across the developed world: why did ARCO Solar
and the utility (PG&E?) scrap the whole thing after a
relatively short period of time? Causes me to wonder about
the fate of so many of the mammoth projects now going in as
far as what’s going to happen when the owner-investors likely
bail, having made their handsome ROIs, after the tax credits
and MACRS depreciation plays out.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">marco<o:p></o:p></p>
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