Another "miracle" substance for solar: Perovskite?

Question

Yes, I am skeptical, but one of these days, someone is going to make a huge breakthrough. Supposedly, this stuff will be commercially available at 15 cents per watt, so a hundred watt panel will cost $15:

Perovskite thin film article

We'll see. But if this turns out to be the Big Leap, you heard it first on rv.net!

mexicowanderer · Answer

They're hot on the trail but have a long-row-to-hoe before feasibility can be used in describing the phenomenon.

flyfisherman128 · Answer

The reality is.. if you make them too cheap there is not enough profit in  it to bother with..so what would be the point in making such a device.

westend · Answer

Flyfisherman128 wrote:The reality is.. if you make them too cheap there is not enough profit in  it to bother with..so what would be the point in making such a device.Another reality might be that if I an make my product at a lesser price and sell it at it's present price, the ink gets blacker.

profdant139 · Answer

If (a big if) the price of power crashes, then all sorts of economies of scale will kick in -- instead of solar as a niche product, we will see every rooftop covered in panels.

2oldman · Answer

Flyfisherman128 wrote:
if you make them too cheap there is not enough profit in it to bother with..so what would be the point in making such a device.

Cheap is only relative to how much it costs to make it.

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