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Re:Home Prices Are Now Higher Than the Peak of the 2000s Hou... by latchkey on Friday August 20, 2021 @01:21PM (#28248709)
That's a good example! The technology hasn't really improved that much (it has, but not like TVs), but the cost to deploy solar panels has gone down significantly likely due to manufacturing improvements.
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Re:Home Prices Are Now Higher Than the Peak of the 2000s Hou... by jsight on Friday August 20, 2021 @02:01PM (#28249288)
Hmm, not sure if I agree with that. I think the best panels back in 2000 were ~11% efficient. Today we are closer to ~24%? I mean, it isn't a fast improvement, but production for a given area has more than doubled in 20 years.

And 11% was vastly better than just 10 years or so before that.

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