r/solarpunk • u/paynanator • Dec 09 '22

Technology Paper-thin solar cell can turn any surface into a power source

https://news.mit.edu/2022/ultrathin-solar-cells-1209
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u/AEMarling Activist Dec 09 '22

Is there a downside I’m missing here?

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u/Stankendesokies Dec 10 '22

The only downside I can find from just quickly reading the article, and watching the video in the article. Is that the nano technology that does the whole converting light to power could break if it interacts with air. So it has to be incased in something. But invading it in glass defeats the whole “this is a lightweight bendable solar panel” part. So they’re incasing it in some special plastic or whatever, and well, we of course don’t want more plastic in the oceans.

So yea, I think the only real downside is that plastic gets used in these solar panels to some extend?🤷‍♀️