How one factory is surviving America’s solar policy whiplash

Inside the vast Qcells factory in Cartersville, Georgia, workers — and a bevy of robots — move ultra-thin slices of polysilicon through a lengthy series of machines and chemical baths to get what are known as cells. “The $2.5 billion, the 3.5 million gallons of water, the 90 megawatts of power, the 60 tons of