Yeah, a carbon tax. I guess we’ll have to pay money for every time we exhale. These suckers are now the ones in panic, watching their well-laid plans smashed to pieces. Is it any wonder they’ve become hysterical?
hopefully the President will put a stop to funding stuff like this - MSM is not reporting it...except for Fox News.
8 Mar: Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Daniel Moore: Hyped battery maker Aquion Energy files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
It has laid off about 80 percent of its personnel, keeping only a core research and development team...
It was listed as one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Top 100 Smartest Companies in 2015 and 2016, as well as picking up an award in 2015 from a German organization supporting the energy storage industry...
Aquion was approved to receive $16.6 million in state grants and loans from the the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, according to the agency’s online investment tracker. It’s unclear whether the company used all of that money...
http://powersource.post-gazette.com/powersource/companies/2017/03/08/Energy-storage-company-Aquion-Energy-files-for-Chapter-11-bankruptcy-Pittsburgh-sodium-ion/stories/201703080186
10 Mar: Fox News: Another taxpayer-funded energy company files for bankruptcy
Seven years after Aquion Energy received a $5.2 million stimulus-tied grant from the federal government, the Pennsylvania company on Wednesday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
Critics say Aquion’s fate is further evidence the government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/10/another-taxpayer-funded-energy-company-files-for-bankruptcy.html