Hi,Skeez: " ... loss of 800 jobs to China ..."   Well, I hope that you're not holding me personally responsible.  ;-)

Not finding the situation *funny*, mind you - but it indeed is ironic, given the link that you posted to me just the other day.  This article supports a point I've tried to get across to you, with limited success - solar is an industry in its infancy, whose contributions to the present energy supply are minuscule, and won't overtake fossil fuels for the foreseeable future.  There are a lot of 'teething problems' to come, I suspect.  800 people losing their jobs in Portland won't be the last.

Incidentally, I've been in a similar industrial downsizing.  'Out on the street' with ~3,000 other people when a foreign owner decided to quit the North American market.  I was out of work about a month, but didn't miss any meals.  I'll bet that in today's economy, most of the 800 mentioned above won't be jobless very long either.

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