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2011-11-18 Home Front: Culture Wars

Beacon Power follows Solyndra into bankruptcy

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Posted by DarthVader 2011-11-18 10:21|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 that's $5M in Massachusetts state loans (in 2008)and $43M in Federal loans (in 2009). Bankruptcy in Oct 2011.

The storage devices for intermittent power mentioned in the article are flywheels.

Posted by Lord Garth 2011-11-18 14:25|| 2011-11-18 14:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Ideology tries to fit a square peg into a round hole.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-11-18 15:57|| 2011-11-18 15:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Am I the only one to have first read the headline as "Bacon Power"?

Posted by gorb 2011-11-18 22:21|| 2011-11-18 22:21|| Front Page Top

#4 And our PRE/PROTO-SPACE GOVT, ORDER + STAR COMMERCE STARTS WID A BANG = yet another Green Tech bankruptcy!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-11-18 22:53|| 2011-11-18 22:53|| Front Page Top

#5 DON'T you ever associate BACON with the SCOAMF in charge. Bacon is better than him

Posted by Frank G 2011-11-18 23:28|| 2011-11-18 23:28|| Front Page Top

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