Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm
Author: photovoltaicsint
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When you enter Solyndra's Fab 1, you notice a few things right off the bat. It's a biggish facility, but not mega-scale, with about 180,000 square feet of factory floor and related manufacturing space. Floorspace is at a premium, with not much room left for any more tools. The conditions are tidy, but not ultraclean, nowhere near the stringent contamination control specs of a semiconductor or a hard-disk-drive fab. As a result, there's not a bunny-suited worker in sight, just employees garbed in the more comfortable mufti of booties, lab-coat smocks, goggles, and hardhats for the most part.