https://www.ecoticias.com/en/goodbye-to-solar-panels-japan-has-just-broken-a-rule-that-had-remained-intact-for-more-than-140-years-and-proves-that-solar-panels-do-not-have-to-be-flat/25615/
What a goofy web site.
On 20/01/2026 3:23 am, john larkin wrote:
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/goodbye-to-solar-panels-japan-has-just-broken-a-rule-that-had-remained-intact-for-more-than-140-years-and-proves-that-solar-panels-do-not-have-to-be-flat/25615/
What a goofy web site.
"Goofy" is a rather imprecise criticism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra
planned on selling cylindrical solar cells. It started deploying >demonstration system from 2006 and filed for bankruptcy in 2011.
It went bankrupt because the price of polysilicon dropped 89% between
2009 and mid-2011 as the Chinese improved the Siemens process.
Solar cells clearly don't have to be flat, and anybody who thinks that
this was ever any kind of rule has to be nuts.
On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 02:57:01 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 20/01/2026 3:23 am, john larkin wrote:
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/goodbye-to-solar-panels-japan-has-just-broken-a-rule-that-had-remained-intact-for-more-than-140-years-and-proves-that-solar-panels-do-not-have-to-be-flat/25615/
What a goofy web site.
"Goofy" is a rather imprecise criticism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra
planned on selling cylindrical solar cells. It started deploying
demonstration system from 2006 and filed for bankruptcy in 2011.
It went bankrupt because the price of polysilicon dropped 89% between
2009 and mid-2011 as the Chinese improved the Siemens process.
Solar cells clearly don't have to be flat, and anybody who thinks that
this was ever any kind of rule has to be nuts.
"Nuts" is a rather imprecise criticism.
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