• Leeks@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Yup, that’s terrible. PSC’s still have a long way to go and we need to find encapsulation technologies to extend their life more, but where they shine is that they should be dirt cheap. If they cost 1/4 of silicon based cells, but only last 1/2 as long, that’s still a massive improvement.

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      1 year ago

      Wouldn’t the energy used for manufacturing, shipping, gathering, and recycling twice as many solar panels outweigh the benefits? That’s a lot of extra logistics to deal with