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Will the Sun Will Keep Shining On Solar Power In California?
Is California’s solar gold rush destined to fail? That’s what moderator Warren Olney, host of KCRW’s Which Way, L.A.? and To the Point, asked a panel of energy experts at an event co-presented by KCRW at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles. This was “an ominous question,” Olney noted, but California has a history of boom-and-bust industries. Also in the air–although it wasn’t broached until later in the conversation–was the collapse of solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, a fiasco that critics have cited as a sign that the technology hasn’t caught up with …