
The Skeptics Guide #895 - Sep 3 2022
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
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What Is the Future of Photovoltaic Cells?
Many researchers think that peroskit photovotaic cells will be the successor of silicon, really. Cheaper to manufacture because the lower temperature and a higher potential conversion efficiency than silicon. But there's a big downside. The life span ive sto when they get, when they reats. Soin a couple of months ago, the researchers published a study where they they had a perovsky that was stable up to 51 thousand hours of continuous sunlight - which is now on the 20 year indistres dayth.
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