Money well spent IMO.
Most of the article is behind a paywall, so I couldn't find out: More efficient solar panels have been made since, but has the price of electricity dropped so much that this plant is now not economically viable?
paywalled?
This seems interesting, though. Does the plant just become a stranded asset or is there still a way to get returns out of it?
Taxpayers remain on the hook for $737 million in loan guarantees. Another one that left taxpayers on the hook for $530 mm - Solyndra (1)
(1)https://www.factcheck.org/2011/10/obamas-solyndra-problem/
Kind of sad that the founder feels obligated to say it's a "tragedy of mismanagement" or a tragedy of anything... as if the story is any more dramatic or Shakespearean than the simple truth: Probably this method just isn't as efficient as others. And I mean, we had to actually try building this thing to find that out, so there's no shame in that.