News reports have depicted Solyndra’s bankruptcy as the end of solar power in the U.S. Coming to this conclusion without any kind of analysis is ridiculous. All growing technologies have their growing pains.

The Vote Solar Initiative puts it this way: “[it is] like saying there is no future for the internet because Netscape went out of business.” The same could be said for the early days of electricity, computers and cars. All of these industries had their failed companies, yet the industry went on to great success.Reports of Solar’s Death are greatly exaggerated.