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Talk about open minds. Open your mind to the real world of business and manufacturing. MS never made claims like this company is making, they worked on their products and built them over the course of a number of years to get to where they were the dominant player in an emerging marketplace.
Citizenre is making outlandish claims to be able to do more in less time than any other corporation of any type in history. It is a great idea, and something everyone would like to see some day, but to be selling people on this futures market is more than troublesome. It is great to have dreams but you have to face the facts.
They claim they can get financing, locate a building site, put together all the building plans, go through all the submittals required for building permits wherever the location will be, actually obtain the permits, build the massive manufacturing facility, hire all the people required to man it, then produce more PV modules and inverters than have been installed in this country in total, over the last 30 years. All of this and still allow for hiring installation companies to install all this product, contract the customers, apply for local permits (and for the credits in the states that offer the cash subsidy), get the approvals and permits, and have it installed, all within one year from however many months ago they started making this absurd claim. This is more than any major multi-national corporation has been able to accomplish, after pouring many, many, millions of dollars into R&D, manufacturing and marketing.
If anyone can show me a company that has gone from zero to several billion dollars of completed manufactured product and installation within one year or even five years, please show me verifiable facts. No dreams - reality.