Presidential election, 2016

[David Horn]

(11-28-2016, 09:09 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: I agree a lot of Obama's patronage definitely went to people not on welfare, in particular wealthy Obama donors such as the founders of Solyndra.

Please, give this a rest.  If you're pushing the envelope, you'll have some failures.  If you have no failures, you're playing it far too safe.  Overall, the DOE alternative energy program has been a huge success.  Solyndra offered a technology that didn't stand up to the completion, but those competitors were also in the program.  So Solyndra lost, but the cost of solar arrays has dropped by nearly 75% because those winners had beater ideas.  That was the point.

Solyndra is not an embarrassment.  It was a casualty in a brutal technology war that was guaranteed to have them.  How is this different than the serial failures suffered by NASA in the early days of the space race?  Rockets blowing up on launch was an ongoing saga for years, but it's NASA that made it to the moon.