Pass that guy a Braniff barf bag!

Every few months the news puts out a breathless story of another solar panel maker closing.  Tree huggers wheez with anxiety the future is fading, while the climate deniers and fossil fuel dicks howl with delight at proof clean energy will die, and the fucking hippies with it.

Get a little reality dude!

In the early 1900's there were about 150 motor vehicle builders in the US.  When I was a kid there was still several, today there's 3 and no one can make a case that currently their market share isn't robust.  Most new technologies have a hugh swell of brands in the early years.  Innovation and competition winnows it down over time.   There use to be dozens of tractor makers, now it's John Deere and a couple others.   This is the normal progression of most market sectors.  Rather than being seen as an industry in failure and collapse, these events signal a maturing of the industry.   A strange way to see it but that historically is what it means.  I don't like it, but I understand it, and when next we hear of another solar or wind company closing don't hyperventilate, or blow chunks.