Oxford scientists are generating solar power without panels

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like it’s still a solar cell though, they just figured out how to make it thinner and flexible. By the time you stack them into a cell, is there really any difference?

  “By stacking multiple light-absorbing layers into one solar cell (known as a multi-junction approach), a wider range of the light spectrum is harnessed, allowing more power to be generated from the same amount of sunlight.

  This thin-film perovskite material has been independently certified by Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) to deliver over 27% energy efficiency. It matches the performance of traditional, single-layer silicon PV for the first time.”

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  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you can lay flexible material directly onto the roof, perhaps it can just be the roof, replacing traditional shingles.

    It’ll be expensive at first until it’s in wide production, assuming it gets that far without a big flaw being found.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Like Tesla’s solar roof? Those replace shingles as well.

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  • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is always a catch.

    in this case I’ll bet its the price

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    • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or a brand new set of DNA altering forever chemicals.

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• Thrashy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Another perovskite hype piece. You’ll know that they’ve got something that’s commercially viable once they’re making these sorts of efficiency claims and not omitting information about cell degradation.

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  • ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    From the article:

    Oxford PV, a UK company spun out of Oxford University Physics in 2010 by Snaith to commercialize perovskite photovoltaics, recently started large-scale manufacturing of perovskite photovoltaics at its factory in Brandenburg-an-der-Havel, near Berlin, Germany. It’s the world’s first volume manufacturing line for “perovskite-on-silicon” tandem solar cells.

    doi.org/10.1039/D2SE00096B

    By adapting the formulation and synthesis of the perovskite and the cell design and encapsulation optimization, Oxford PV succeeded in mitigating stability-related deficits and aims at providing future buyers of their modules with the industry-standard 25 year performance guarantee

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  • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oxford PV this year no?

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• Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We could generate solar power before we even had solar panels. You just used the sun to heat up water. Solar panels made solar power generation more effective.

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  • YeetPics@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah, that’s just solar collection.

    The generation you’re talking about happens in the star.

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    • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, that’s older than water!

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This will bring new meaning to the idea of a burner bag.

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