Re:Inverted perovskite solar cell breaks 25% efficiency record
by balderdash on Saturday November 18, 2023 @07:00PM
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Why I’d installation prices correlate with efficiency?
Re:Inverted perovskite solar cell breaks 25% efficiency record
by Retric on Saturday November 18, 2023 @07:04PM
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If you want a 1 GW solar farm you need to pay people per hour which is essentially per panel to physically install them and pay for mounting equipment etc. At 20% efficiency you need 5% more of that labor and mounting equipment than at 21%.
Re:Inverted perovskite solar cell breaks 25% efficiency record
by hinkley on Sunday November 19, 2023 @04:39AM
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Not just more panels but more wiring to take care of. And more square meters of panel to clean.
Re:Inverted perovskite solar cell breaks 25% efficiency record
by jacquesm on Sunday November 19, 2023 @06:11AM
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And more ground to buy for a given yield.
Re:Inverted perovskite solar cell breaks 25% efficiency record
by balderdash on Sunday November 19, 2023 @01:34PM
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Ahh I’m with you, i mistook your comment to mean that they were positively correlated with installation prices as opposed to negatively correlated.
Re:Inverted perovskite solar cell breaks 25% efficiency record
by fgonzag on Sunday November 19, 2023 @01:49PM
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At least in my house in Mexico, solar panels were mounted on custom made structures that maximize your house's power generation. That can't be cheap in a high labor cost country. The panel might be cheap but mounting it is expensive.
They also suffer from lack of raw-material abundance and shorter lifetimes. But it may be possible to fix both of those too. The factory for perovskite cells should require much less initial investment, what is a huge limitation for silicon cells, so it could be revolutionary.