Solar panels failing in high numbers now

[sdowney717]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/bu...anted=all&_r=0

The pressures to cut costs have seen manufacturers in China and the US substituting inferior materials. Result is they are degrading in a couple years.

The article is giving examples of expensive recent failures so maybe you buy these and put on your boat and they fall apart soon. Not good, turning into junk so soon.

[mbianka]

Originally Posted by sdowney717

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/bu...anted=all&_r=0

The pressures to cut costs have seen manufacturers in China and the US substituting inferior materials. Result is they are degrading in a couple years.

The article is giving examples of expensive recent failures so maybe you buy these and put on your boat and they fall apart soon. Not good, turning into junk so soon.

Hmmm Europe and the U.S. complaining that China is dumping solar panels on their markets. May place tariffs on the panels. Expect prices to rise.

[Boatguy30]

And I just heard on NPR how they want to build shipping terminals in Coos Bay to send them natural gas so they can make us more junk with the natural gas? I will gladly have the tariffs and the jobs and the natural gas!

[Ram]

wow- glade i did not buy yet

[phorvati]

wow glad i got mine in 2006. Still going strong. no signs of any problems. Glass is as new as it was in 2006. Kyocera 130-TMs

[Tim R.]

+1 on the Kyocera panels.

[nimblemotors]

Originally Posted by sdowney717

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/bu...anted=all&_r=0

The pressures to cut costs have seen manufacturers in China and the US substituting inferior materials. Result is they are degrading in a couple years.

The article is giving examples of expensive recent failures so maybe you buy these and put on your boat and they fall apart soon. Not good, turning into junk so soon.

The article is amazingly bad journalism. "failing in high numbers", but can site NOTHING of facts to back it up, except some ancedotes and innuendo.
Seems a hit job on chinese solar, if a financial industry article, probably backed by some short-sellers of chinese stocks.