I've seen plenty of wind farms in the US myself - from Illinois to California. That doesn't change the fact that they are not a panacea, and that they have significant environmental impacts and non-green aspects to them. The notion that the...
I'm not sure that there has been an improvement. It's not really a manufacturing problem, it's a technology problem and the storage capacity of batteries, the energy efficiency of solar-to-power conversion of solar panels, etc. another example...
Solyndra was a manufacturer of cylindrical panels of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin film solar cells. It was based in Fremont, California. In 2009, Solyndra received a $535 million U.S. Department of Energy loan guarantee, the first...