So you want to get in on the solar boom, but don’t have the cash to buy a manufacturing plant. What to do, what to do … I know! Why not try the same place that got you a date with the redhead on the bus, your last apartment, and your ’79 Mercedes that you’d run on biodiesel if you could ever get the damn thing to turn over?

Yes, Craigslist. They are having a sale on triple junction thin-film amorphous PV manufacturing plants.

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Give it a shot. Maybe it will work out better than the redhead.

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