From: "Don Libby" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: gmane.science.general.global-change,gmane.spam.detected
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 5:19 PM
Subject: [Global Change: 3254] Re: Captialist entrepreneurs try their luck
>I don't know who bought the solar PV businesses of Sayno or Sharp, but 
>those
>companies appear to be no longer in business, or at least, no longer
>publicly owned.  If anybody knows the story, do tell.  I suppose if I had
>included them in the average as -100% then the small fry might compare more
>favorably, but these two companies probably didn't wink out of existence:
>their productive assets were eaten by bigger fish.

Poor google skills I guess.  Sanyo and Sharp are both still in the solar 
cell business:

      Company 8/1/2006 8/3/2009     Change
      FPL           43.4 56.41 30%
      Siemens       80.17 82.34 3%
      Exelon        58.92 50.92 -14%
      Sanyo (yen) 246 211 -14%
      Kyocera       80.49 80.32 0%
      Sharp (yen)    2100 1043 -50%
      ADM           43.9 28.81 -34%
      GE            34.39 13.82 -60%
      BP            77.5 51.72 -33%
      IP            33.29 19.82 -40%
      Average   -21%

      PBW           17.27 10.84 -37%


-dl





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