It’ll be as cheap as putting up wallpaper.” One principal
advantage they have over conventional solar technology is that they can
be engineered to react to many different wavelengths of light. That lets
them convert more of the sunlight that strikes them into electricity.
Wow! That is some pretty exciting stuff. Why don’t we have perovskite solar panels right now? One answer is, there is often a huge difference between performance in the lab and performance in the real world. Another thing is that many perovskite solar cells use lead as a principal ingredient. And they deteriorate rapidly in the presence of moisture. Silicon solar cells may be clunky, but they last 25 years or more.
Siravam says that very few scientists are working on solutions to
these problems. Instead, they are devoting their efforts to establishing
new solar cell efficiency records in the lab. Read more: http://cleantechnica.com/2015/07/05/perovskite-solar-cells-what-this-breakthrough-needs-to-get-to-market/
Wow! That is some pretty exciting stuff. Why don’t we have perovskite solar panels right now? One answer is, there is often a huge difference between performance in the lab and performance in the real world. Another thing is that many perovskite solar cells use lead as a principal ingredient. And they deteriorate rapidly in the presence of moisture. Silicon solar cells may be clunky, but they last 25 years or more.
