“Solar Goes for Gardens to Gigabucks,” from Wired Magazine

“…a converted hard-drive factory with a shiny new façade has begun churning out unconventional solar tubes that could change the economics of solar power.
The highly-automated factory belongs to Solyndra, a three-year-old company that’s received $600 million in venture capital and $1.2 billion in orders for its new modules, which look like curtain rods. Those big [...]