Now Elon Musk wants to revolutionize solar panel production
Thanks in part to Elon Musk, the world’s biggest and most advanced solar panel factory could be built in the U.S. in the coming years.
The Silicon Valley entrepreneur, fresh off announcing an effort to spur growth in the electric auto industry by opening up access to hundreds of Tesla Motors patents, on Tuesday pushed the cleantech envelope even further, announcing a bid to massively expand the solar panel industry.
Musk, chair of the solar panel installation giant SolarCity, told reporters that in the coming years the company plans to build a solar panel factory in the U.S. that’s “an order of magnitude bigger than any of the plants that exist” anywhere in the world today.
SolarCity is responsible for about a quarter of America’s residential solar panel installations every month — three times as much as its closest competitor. Its market dominance has been earned in part through its “zero-down” financing model. But that’s not enough. Musk says he worries that the company’s ongoing growth will be so rapid that it will start to encounter solar panel shortages, despite what now is an international glut of mostly Chinese-made panels.
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can't even begin to think I could afford one, but dang it, we've got senators talking about a 12 cent gas tax to finance all the roads and bridges that need repair, and d*mn it, an electric car is just what I would need AND want if this were to ever happen. I love this guys brain.
.... last October. He plugs his car into his house and he has bought one tank of
gas since last fall ...... well he bought two because after awhile hw switched to
running on gas in order to use up the old gas so it wouldn't go bad in his car.
* Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design aka green building.
if you're going to go electric......go BIG baby. 
