Impossible to be literally true, so quite literally “incredible” if 1000x or 1000%. The sun doesn’t emit that much energy more than current solar panels can manage.
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psud@aussie.zone 4 weeks agoAnything claiming a 1000 times improvement on a technology needs to come from several serious sources to be remotely credible
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
psud@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Yeah, a kilowatt per square meter (perpendicular to the sun angle). We only need something like 5 times for 100% efficiency
The article must be either entirely bullshit or using an odd baseline to raise a thousand times
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Most solar panels are ~20% efficient. So (100-20)/1000=0.08%, 100-0.08=99.92% efficient (1000x less energy loss) (you could do it the other way, but that would make less sense)
Tiresia@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
It’s a 1000 times improvement the same way riding a horse is a 1000 times improvement over riding an army of snails. It’s possible because nobody was doing the old thing because it was garbage.