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Re:Solar Now Provides Twice as Many Jobs as the Coal Industry by ScottBurson on Monday February 27, 2017 @08:36PM (#13750403)
Efficiency of affordable solar cells can't increase by more than about a factor of 2 from where it is now. Even to do that, we'd have to figure out how to cheaply mass-produce multilayer cells, which are currently expensive one-offs made in labs; I'll be very surprised if that happens in 15 years.

What's more likely to happen, as I understand, is that cells of about the same efficiency level as what most people are using now, or maybe somewhat less, will get much cheaper (e.g., perovskites). But that won't be a reason to replace existing installations.

Re:Solar Now Provides Twice as Many Jobs as the Coal Industry by petra on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:48AM (#13751817)
There's a startup working on cost-effective panel-scale multi-layer cpv.

http://www.zmescience.com/science/twice-efficient-residentia...

And instead of doubling of efficiencies(22% to 44%) , I've seen some thoerticak work talking about 60%+ .