From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Randy"  wrote in message news:43fbd25b$1{at}w3....
> Rich Gauszka wrote:
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>> http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060221/NEWS03/602210308/10
05/NEWS
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>> At United Solar Ovonic, which makes high-tech batteries and solar panels,
>> Bush toured the plant with the company's president, Subhendu Guha.
>>
>
> "Ovonic"-now THAT's a blast from my Detroit past.
>
> Didn't Ovinshky (sp?) die a while ago?

I think he's still alive. Doing a search I found this interesting view of Ovshinsky

http://shanef27.blogspot.com/2005/09/stan-ovshinsky.html

Stan Ovshinsky, one of history's greatest con men

Stan was one of history's greatest con men, although he was also a truly
creative scientist to some degree. His amorphous semiconductor device
barely worked, but not reliably enough to be useful. However, it had the
potential of being very cheap. He got big companies to invest a quarter of
a billion dollars [see #1, on next page], over the next 20 years, without
ever making a penny of profit. He always promised: "Just one more year
of development, and it will revolutionize electronics."

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