The Littlest President Will Go And Look At Solar Panels Next Week

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President Bush is expected to visit Monday a high-tech solar panel factory in Auburn Hills to talk about energy initiatives aimed at reducing the nation's dependence on foreign oil just as the company plans a major expansion.

Bush will tour United Solar Ovonic's facility across from The Palace, where a machine the length of a football field churns out thin, rugged panels that capture energy from the sun. Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman visited the plant last year and spoke at the groundbreaking for a duplicate factory nearby.

Bush's visit comes on the heels of Uni-Solar's announcement Thursday of another expansion that will dramatically increase its production output and create more jobs.

The company, a unit of Energy Conversion Devices in Rochester Hills, will double its capacity and hire about 200 employees this summer when its second plant opens. Uni-Solar intends to double its capacity again next year with a third factory and build more facilities to triple capacity between 2007 and 2010.

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Will he get any questions about fired scientists at NREL? I'd be willing to say "no".

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060217/BIZ/602170383/1001

about gnat size - guess I'll have to get out my magnifying glass for the future.