The political climate generated by the collapse of Solyndra last year had a "profound impact" on the US pioneer in energy storage, the former chief executive said yesterday.In exclusive comments to AOL Energy at the Energy Storage Week Summit in San Jose, California, Bill Capp, the former CEO of Beacon Power, which filed for bankruptcy last October, said:"Whether or not we would have survived without this series of events, I don't know. But it certainly had a profound impact."Through all the things that [Solyndra] stimulated, the Congressional reaction, the media reaction, the financial mar...