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Cadmium Telluride Casts Shadow on First Solar

This is an interesting point. I have noticed the RoHS stickers on all of the Taiwanese mainboards used in my workplace. Why should Taiwanese semiconductors be required to meet RoHS but not Arizona semiconductors? Particularly when you consider that alternative products - which do not use restricted toxins - are both available and more than an effective substitute. The enviromental issues associated with the use of the CdTe panel could perhaps best be parodied in a re-work of a famous quote: "In order to save the environment, we had to destroy it." First Solar might adopt that as a company slogan.

First Solar's Momentum Is Seemingly Gone

Plenty of people got burned shorting internet companies. They had no idea just how big the bubble could get. However, in the end, the bubble burst and so did most of the companies. Remember when Sun Microsystems was $100 a share? They are still around, but considerably cheaper. There is no reason to expect anything different from the solar power bubble.