Comments on: CIGS solar producer SoloPower gets $30 million

Start-up will use series B funding to build out 20-megawatt solar-cell manufacturing plant.

pollution controls on electroplating
by wylbur July 12, 2007 2:05 PM PDT: I'd be interested in hearing about what sort of polution controls
they have planned for their electroplating facility. Historically,
electroplating has been a very poisonous process that releases
heavy metals into the atmosphere and has had negative health
consequences for the neighborhoods around electroplating
facilities. What is Solopower going to do to control and monitor
polution from their plating process?; Like this Reply to this comment

Solar on the go
by stock_analyst July 12, 2007 9:52 PM PDT: Solar companies are certain to benefit from the increasing awareness about the negative effects of global warming. Most of the solar stocks are soaring up. Here is a link to a post that speaks about the gains made by solar companies and their future potential...

http://palmaresearch.com/blog/2007/07/climate-change-solar-stocks-and.html; Like this Reply to this comment

Environmental Hazards
by Al.Capital July 13, 2007 8:53 AM PDT: The environmental hazards and costs associated with PV manufacturing in the US have not adequately been elucidated to the investor community. With the large ramp up in manufacturing, these issues will soon become important and ignite a debate regarding US versus Chinese manufacturing facilities. For an overview of PV hazards see the Broohaven report:

http://www.pv.bnl.gov/art_170.pdf

for general interest stock market overiews see:

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