Solyndra Trashes Brand New Equipment
Now that Solyndra has served its purpose of laundering $535 million of taxpayer money to pay off Obama’s campaign donors, it can dispense with the props used to convince the gullible it was ever going to produce economically viable energy. That’s why it has been destroying brand new equipment:
At Solyndra’s sprawling complex in Fremont, workers in white jumpsuits were unwrapping brand new glass tubes used in solar panels last week. They are the latest, most cutting-edge solar technology, and they are being thrown into dumpsters.
Forklifts brought one pallet after another piled high with the carefully packaged glass. Slowly but surely it all ended up shattered.
And it’s not a few loads. Hundreds of thousands of tubes on shrink-wrapped pallets will meet a similar demise.
A better symbol for Obamanomics would be hard to imagine.
Solyndra paid at least $2 million for the specialized glass. A CBS 5 crew found one piece lying in the parking lot. Solyndra still owes the German company that made the tubes close to another $8 million.
Solyndra apparently made no effort to find a buyer for the valuable tubes. Nor would it donate any to Santa Clara University despite a request. But you can buy the whole bankrupt company if you want. So far there have been no bidders.
On tips from J, Dave H, Bob Roberts, and Shawn.
Glass is recyclable… not very green to send it to the landfill.
What do the people at Solyndra care?
It’s not like it’s their money!
They may even get some carbon credits for that. Too bad the carbon credit exchange collapsed.
Two million dollars? That’s peanuts to a Democrat. More where that came from.
Why didn’t they just send them back to the vendor?
They didn’t send them back to the vendor because if they tried to do the right thing by having a SALE on the equipment, they would run a chance that their equipment would be bought by someone who wasn’t inept and recognize the equipment as it is:
A sham vehichle.
I believe in Occam’s razor. Anything that seems abnormal may have an abnormal explanation. When the normal reaction would be to either return the equipment to the manufacturerer for credit or proper disposal in an attempt to soften the sting of a bailout or, destroy the credible evidence in plain sight and do not recoup any monies nor have to answer any embarrassing questions.
Paul Krugman just came.
But before it went under, Solyndra employed over 1000 people. So those jobs can still be considered ‘saved or created’, right? So it was a huge victory for Obama!
President dickweasel will be touting his green ‘successes’ (like the mythical 2.7 green jobs created on his watch according to one of his recent detached-from-reality re-election ads) His bogus inflated statistics will include the 1000 (aw hell lets round up to the nearest 100,000) Solyndra jobs which no longer exist. Don’t expect him to actually mention that or even say Solyndra though…