Solyndra, every mention
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every year anyone Lara Pierpoint 2Gabrielle Coppola 2Stephen Lacey 1Jigar Shah 1Dr. Carly Anderson 1Andrew Beebe 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Solyndra comes up
The perovskite bet that could transform solar
- ▶ 9:28 Lara Pierpoint So I'm about to date myself because I remember back in the day when Solyndra went bankrupt, and I think part of what
- ▶ 32:07 Lara Pierpoint And so one of the things that I think is true about solar is that that can be trickier, actually, in some cases than other technologies, because there's a history of bankruptcy, especially with Solyndra and some folks who got burned in…
AI-fueled geothermal and ‘the edge of the possible’
- ▶ 5:07 Andrew Beebe So instead of radical innovation, you know, uh, people like Nanosolar and even Solyndra and my company, Energy Innovations, trying to do gallium arsenide, high concentration, uh,
Venture investors riff on headwinds, hype, and wildcards of 2023
- ▶ 41:27 Dr. Carly Anderson I mean, we, we saw what happened, uh, you know, beginning of the twenty-tenths when Solyndra, right, like, people got in their heads that this was a bubble, and it burst, and nobody would touch a lot of these sectors for many, many years,…
How to triple renewables by 2030
- ▶ 54:06 Stephen Lacey Of course, going back to politics, we're just riding this carousel of outrage all the time, and every, every time we go around, there's some new thing to get mad at, mad about, and point at, and this plays out continually with clean energy…
The fall of a battery maker still haunts America
- ▶ 21:43 Gabrielle Coppola And, um, I will say there was a tremendous amount of political pressure on the Obama administration at the time because Solyndra had happened, um, Fisker was in trouble. 2 times in the scene
The make-or-break moment for America’s energy transition
- ▶ 17:20 Jigar Shah People like, you know, were dragged in front of Capitol Hill during this lender stuff, et cetera, et cetera.
How one company could crush the US solar industry
- ▶ 7:07 unnamed speaker Chu is under pressure following the bankruptcy of solar manufacturer Solyndra, which collapsed despite receiving more than five hundred million dollars of government cash. 2 times in the scene