I am intrigued by the massive hype for this product and for claims, this year, that they have ramped up high-performing solar panel production to commercial levels. They seem to have fled the consumer by selling almost all of their product for the next two years to local european (German) private utility consortia, which makes economic sense, although it now moves the company from being the spearhead vehicle of a massive populist revolution among energy users in the United States and Canada to being a low-cost supplier of utility scale panels to the medium scale private utiltiy business. I guess the more panels they produce, the happier we should be. Two things would make me even happier: 1)public share offerings in Nanosolar and 2) independent, rigorous testing of the solar cells coming off of the high speed production line.

Thanks for your background on this. I'm not an expert but it does seem like a major step that will help us all - perhaps not as fast as we would like.