Oh yeah, Solyndra was a smashing success.

Via TWS:

. . . Elsewhere, Chu adds, “We’re going to have a few more bankruptcies. Sometimes it’ll be like Solyndra where you get 3 cents on the dollar. Others, it’ll be 80 cents, or something like that. If you look at what got started and what became bankable, was it successful? Yes. We were more successful than Wall Street. So come on, guys.”