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was considered a specialist in underwater hockey, she got
a so-called green card. Since Lyndon married her, he also
got a green card, and both of them could remain in the US.
They are still practicing the sport for the US team.^108 “But I
wasn’t able to stay in the country for employing 280 people
and eventually selling the company [Everdream] to Dell
Computers,” Lyndon said.^237
Elon became a US citizen ten years after immigrating
to the country. Together with 3 500 other immigrants, he
took the oath of American citizenship at the Pomona Fair-
plex. The ceremony was according to Elon “actually very
moving.”^278 His wife Justine slept through the alarm clock
and missed the ceremony to get her American citizenship.
Filled with anxiety, she realized she could attend a later
ceremony.^142
With the citizenships secured, Peter and Lyndon began
to learn everything about the solar power market in the
same way as their cousin Elon would do it: read books and
learn by doing. In 2005, they visited the exhibition Solar
Power International. Of about 1 000 attendees, everyone
they met worked with the development of solar panels
and how to manufacture them. “The barrier to getting
individuals to use solar power was the up-front cost of
installing the panels,” Lyndon said. “No one was talking
about barriers to purchasing and delivery problems. If no
one was focused on the end market, this business would
make no progress.”60,102
Manufacturing a standardized solar panel is not diffi-
cult. “Making standard efficiency solar panels is about as