GreenChipJeff's blog

We all cringed the first time we heard that Solyndra would be the recipient of $535 million in loan guarantees.

Quite frankly, few in the business could make sense of why Solyndra was chosen over so many other solar companies for this kind of loan guarantee in the first place. And of course, the biggest fear was that it would turn out to be a really bad investment that would inevitably be used to attack the entire solar industry.

That's exactly what has happened.

But while the naysayers, laggards and partisan slaves have jumped on the Solyndra debacle faster than...