Interesting read new solar tech

[Crash]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/energ...ntl/index.html wonder how long to be in production.

[J.P.M.]

Maybe something will come of it, but it looks like the usual pie in the sky stuff that once was relegated to the covers of like popular mechanics. I wouldn't be an early adoptor.

[chrisski]

Here’s another article.https://www.solarpowerworldonline.co...plain-fantasy/

Developed over 15 years ago, and for whatever reasons, still not available commercially. This artillery talks a little bit about the problems of manufacture.

[J.P.M.]

Here’s another article.https://www.solarpowerworldonline.co...plain-fantasy/

Developed over 15 years ago, and for whatever reasons, still not available commercially.

Which to me is only more reason for skepticism. I've seen this M.O. before.

[nwdiver]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/energ...ntl/index.html wonder how long to be in production.

The title is a little misleading. Silicon will likely remain as a substrate. When I toured the Mission Solar factory last year their CTO spoke very highly of the potential of perovskites. I was a little apprehensive because it requires titanium and lead but titanium is actually more abundant than I thought and the amount of lead used is minuscule. My understanding is that rapid performance degradation is what prevented perovskites from being adopted but it seems this has mostly been solved. I think this has a high probability of being the largest step change in cost and efficiency sine PERC. My prediction is that we'll see ~450w '60 cell sized' solar panels for <$0.15/w by 2030 in large part due to a perovskite layer.