When will the solar bubble burst?
It's happened with technology in the late 90's. It's happened in many other avenues throughout history, but can there actually be a burst of the upcoming solar bubble? With the booming interest in renewable energy, can there ever be too much of a good thing, eventually leading to problems?Chung-Wen Lan, director-general of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)'s Photovoltaics Technology Center believes that the problems will stem from the fact that there is a shortage of polysilicon in the market, which has attracted many new smaller companies into this tech production market. However, polysilicon production is a capital-intensive industry that might eventually break those smaller companies without the proper capital. With higher demand comes lower retail prices, and eventually lower profits for these companies. This is basically what happened in the tech boom, and Lan worries it is the future of the solar market.
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