Comments on: Nanosolar: No Solar Panel Auction For You http://gigaom.com/cleantech/nanosolar-no-solar-panel-auction-for-you/ Sun, 27 May 2012 02:10:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Web http://gigaom.com/cleantech/nanosolar-no-solar-panel-auction-for-you/#comment-8893 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:20:44 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/12/26/nanosolar-no-solar-panel-auction-for-you/#comment-8893 Green energy is definitely the best solution in most cases. Technology like solar energy, wind power, fuel cells, zaps electric vehicles, EV hybrids, etc have come so far recently. Green energy even costs way less than oil and gas in many cases.

]]> By: Peter M http://gigaom.com/cleantech/nanosolar-no-solar-panel-auction-for-you/#comment-8892 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:13:39 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/12/26/nanosolar-no-solar-panel-auction-for-you/#comment-8892 I guess I can remotely understand why a listing isn’t allowed to just claim that its purse will go to charity, but for such a high-profile auction with so much time left on the ticker this is really just obscene. You’d think this is something that could be resolved with a few exchanges of legal contract between eBay and Nanosolar.

Just for fun though, let’s do a quick Kevin Bacon-style connection to show that they are even in the same family. Nanosolar’s investing partners, Larry Page and Sergey Brin (of Google of course), also investors (passively) in Tesla, which is principally financed and run by Elon Musk, progenitor of Paypal, which is now partnered up with eBay. Ah, the new world of clean tech is so wonderfully incestuous with Silicon Valley…

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