But what strikes me as the biggest news is the low-tech approach V3Solar took to a series of high-tech problems.

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The conference was part of a series of tech and media events sponsored by major media companies and governments in Europe.

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As my colleague Todd Woody noted in a blog post, this is just the latest in a series of green tech companies that has been tripped up by Department of Energy funding issues.

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