Friday, October 19, 2012

We had a song back in Boot Camp

That was played over the intercom when someone failed their current recruit company.
Keep this in mind when you look at the list of failed 0bama alternate-energy companies-



  1. Evergreen Solar ($24 million)*
  2. SpectraWatt ($500,000)*
  3. Solyndra ($535 million)*
  4. Beacon Power ($69 million)*
  5. AES’s subsidiary Eastern Energy ($17.1 million)
  6. Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)
  7. SunPower ($1.5 billion)
  8. First Solar ($1.46 billion)
  9. Babcock and Brown ($178 million)
  10. EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*
  11. Amonix ($5.9 million)
  12. National Renewable Energy Lab ($200 million)
  13. Fisker Automotive ($528 million)
  14. Abound Solar ($374 million)*
  15. A123 Systems ($279 million)*
  16. Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($6 million)
  17. Johnson Controls ($299 million)
  18. Schneider Electric ($86 million)
  19. Brightsource ($1.6 billion)
  20. ECOtality ($126.2 million)
  21. Raser Technologies ($33 million)*
  22. Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*
  23. Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*
  24. Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*
  25. Range Fuels ($80 million)*
  26. Thompson River Power ($6.4 million)*
  27. Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*
  28. LSP Energy ($2.1 billion)*
  29. UniSolar ($100 million)*
  30. Azure Dynamics ($120 million)*
  31. GreenVolts ($500,000)
  32. Vestas ($50 million)
  33. LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($150 million)
  34. Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*
  35. Navistar ($10 million)
  36. Satcon ($3 million)*
Posted by KurtP at 9:53 AM

6 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 19, 2012 12:01 PM

    OK - we're at 36 and counting - hmmmm - that works out to be 10+ companies per year of the obama regime. Perhaps the date of the failures would be illuminating. And all within a very narrow type of company; maybe the SEC or some such should be investigating the cause of the failures.......

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  2. MissKOctober 19, 2012 7:47 PM

    Very enlightening.. snatched and posted. I will add you to my blogroll, thanks for adding me to yours :-)

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  3. BobOctober 20, 2012 3:44 AM

    That was my Navy recruit company's theme song, also. I'm betting that everyone that was in boot camp in the 1980 time period has fond memories of it. I was in Orlando, now sadly closed. Where were you, Kurt?

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  4. KurtPOctober 20, 2012 8:30 AM

    Great Mistakes- Co-250, our CC was on his last boot company before retiring.
    Guess I got lucky :-)

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  5. SixOctober 21, 2012 1:21 AM

    Ours was 'Up Jumped The Monkey' but I don't think Queen ever sang that one :)

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  6. AnonymousNovember 20, 2012 11:19 AM

    chese

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