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Default Solar Industry Anxious Over Defective Panels

On Fri, 31 May 2013 09:25:04 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Most of the concerns over quality center on China, home to the majority of the world˘s solar panel manufacturing capacity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/bu...anted=all&_r=0

The article starts out saying this:
"The solar panels covering a vast warehouse roof in the sun-soaked Inland
Empire region east of Los Angeles were only two years into their expected
25-year life span when they began to fail."

Then the China bashing begins.

30 paragraphs later (many readers wouldn't make it this far) it admits
this:
"The defective panels installed on the Los Angeles area warehouse,.... were
made by an American manufacturer. A reporter was granted access to the
project on the condition that the parties˘ identities not be disclosed
because of a confidential legal settlement."