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off and running with over $5 million in commitments.
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One of the
conditions that Bob placed upon joining SunPower was that when
we got funding I would resign from Stanford. He wanted my full
commitment. So I resigned from Stanford, as did Dick Crane and Ron
Sinton. Now we really had to succeed.
7.5 Concentrators
We began 1991 with full of great hope and expectation. Pierre
Verlinden came back from Belgium to join us. We had substantial
EPRI and DOE research contracts to develop a capability for making
concentrator cells in pilot production, as well as develop a reflective
parabolic dish concentrator in which to put them. We signed
an agreement ...