{"id":35,"date":"2005-04-09T07:57:51","date_gmt":"2005-04-09T12:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/04\/09\/as-if-solar-needed-another-roadblock-t"},"modified":"2005-04-09T07:57:51","modified_gmt":"2005-04-09T12:57:51","slug":"as-if-solar-needed-another-roadblock-to-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/04\/09\/as-if-solar-needed-another-roadblock-to-success\/","title":{"rendered":"As if Solar needed another roadblock to success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a501'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<p>\n Semiconductor manufacturers are able to outbid solar companies for the<br \/>\n available silicon because the material makes up a much smaller portion of<br \/>\n their production costs, Homan said. &#8220;We are getting into a pricing war&#8221;<br \/>\n between industries, Homan said.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n &#8220;The solar industry has been living off the scraps of the computer industry.<br \/>\n This is not a recipe for success,&#8221; said Ron Pernick\n <\/p>\n<p> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n Ouch&#8230; well hopefully the solar industry can get on the right tracks.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/news\/planet\/0,2782,67013,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4\">To the article<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semiconductor manufacturers are able to outbid solar companies for the available silicon because the material makes up a much smaller portion of their production costs, Homan said. &#8220;We are getting into a pricing war&#8221; between industries, Homan said. &#8220;The solar industry has been living off the scraps of the computer industry. This is not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}