The glass-and-metal building that Solyndra LLC began erecting alongside Interstate 880 in Fremont,California, in September 2009 was something the Silicon Valley area hadn’t seen in years: a new factory.
It wasn’t just any factory. When it was completed at an estimated cost of $733 million, including proceeds from a $535 million U.S. loan guarantee, it covered 300,000 square feet, the equivalent of five football fields. It had robots that whistled Disney tunes, spa-like showers with liquid-crystal displays of the water temperature, and glass-walled conference rooms.
“The new building is like the Taj Mahal,” John Pierce, 54, a San Jose resident who worked as a facilities manager at Solyndra, said in an interview.
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Mama went to the real Taj Mahal. The emperor responsible for building it, Shah Jahan, ended up being thrown in jail by his own son for bankrupting the kingdom.
If the threat of being thrown into the pokey for mismanaging money happened today, there would be efficient factories that would not put themselves out of business--people would actually care how they spent the people's tax dollars.
Inteeresting story, Mr. Kitty. ;-)
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