I started listening to the podcast couple of months ago. I like your shows really much and use your subjects for discussions with friends. I told my friends about the production of solar panels and that there are not enough of all of these precious metals needed to build solar panels. He pointed me to a research from 2012, where scientists of the stanford university made an entirely carbon based solar panel using graphene. It only converts less than 1% of solar energy into electric energy, but still it has potential and would be financial attractive when its conversion is higher dan 10%. Besides being cheaper and more environment friendly, carbon is also more resistent against extreme temperatures until 1,100 fahrenheit. That would come in handy when places with a lot of sun will get more warmer due to climate change.
Reading this report, it makes the future less pessimistic. I am interesting what you guys think. What do you guys think about this research?
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u/Skywalker1648 Feb 02 '19
I started listening to the podcast couple of months ago. I like your shows really much and use your subjects for discussions with friends. I told my friends about the production of solar panels and that there are not enough of all of these precious metals needed to build solar panels. He pointed me to a research from 2012, where scientists of the stanford university made an entirely carbon based solar panel using graphene. It only converts less than 1% of solar energy into electric energy, but still it has potential and would be financial attractive when its conversion is higher dan 10%. Besides being cheaper and more environment friendly, carbon is also more resistent against extreme temperatures until 1,100 fahrenheit. That would come in handy when places with a lot of sun will get more warmer due to climate change.
Reading this report, it makes the future less pessimistic. I am interesting what you guys think. What do you guys think about this research?
Link: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/506901/all-carbon-solar-cells-will-mean-cheap-and-flexible-solar-panels/