[WOBBLY BOB]

Solyndra’s $733M Plant Had Robots, Spa Showers

. It had robots that whistled Disney tunes, spa-like showers with liquid-crystal displays of the water temperature, and glass-walled conference rooms.
“The new building is like the Taj Mahal,” John Pierce, 54, a San Jose resident who worked as a facilities manager at Solyndra, said ...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-28/solyndra-s-733-million-plant-had-whistling-robots-spa-showers.html

The only way to make it more of a boondoggle would be to put the solar arrays on a high speed train run by the postal service.

[afraidfortherepublic]

“Backlog” is a term sometimes used loosely in the industry and may not represent firm orders at all, he said.

Not in this household, or in our company. My husband has been in manufacturing for most of his life, either working for others or working for our own company. He has NEVER heard the work "backlog" used that way.