PV is about 15-20% efficient (turning solar power into electricity) How do you improve that 1000 times? Cor.
On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 6:30 PM Darryl McMahon via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > The paper refers to a 10^3 (1000) times improvement in efficiency of a > very specific process in the photovoltaic effect. IMO, that won't > translate into 1000 times improvement at the cell or panel level as > there's a lot more going on to turn received photons into usable > electricity. > > Darryl > > On 6/28/2022 4:07 PM, ev-requ...@lists.evdl.org wrote: > > Message: 4 > > Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 10:18:04 -0400 > > From: Peter Eckhoff<evd...@gmail.com> > > To: Peri Hartman<pe...@kotatko.com>, Electric Vehicle Discussion List > > <ev@lists.evdl.org> > > Subject: Re: [EVDL] 1000 x solar break through. > > Message-ID: > > <CADDOj2Cx=zszdrpbbsepg40vtnjsv6aez+8-no_5kfg4ljh...@mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > > This is the paper the article came from: > > > > https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe4206 > > > > Likely worth a read to find out where the 1000% might have come from. > > Might be that it's 1000% better than silicon on a $/kw basis. > > didn't have time to read the article. Gotta go... > > > > Peter > > -- > Darryl McMahon > Freelance Project Manager (sustainable systems) > > Climate change is only a problem if you want to survive. > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/sub/index.html > CONFIG: http://lists.evdl.org/options.cgi/ev-evdl.org > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/sub/index.html CONFIG: http://lists.evdl.org/options.cgi/ev-evdl.org ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
