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It's been cheaper than nuclear for a while now, it was only a matter of time.

Personally i'm waiting for the next iterations of Kesterite cells.

If we can get single cells to crack ~20% efficiency. With a tandem cell architecture, it's going to become the new standard overnight.

Durability of silicon cells or better, but orders of magnitude $ cheaper to produce, and without the need to use toxic agents as in perovskite cells.

We're movin' fast.

For over a decade we were stuck at ~12% efficiency. And in the last 4 years (probably with AI help) we've cracked 15% efficiency

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/chinese-researcher...

Few more years, and with a bit of luck, we'll all be around to see solar panels that cost 1/10th of what they do now.

> we'll all be around to see solar panels that cost 1/10th of what they do now

I get the impression they're already really damn cheap, to the point that the issues are more so with grid interconnections, land use, and storage

Installation labour cost and inverter cost are now the largest expenses.

I wonder if as panel costs goes down, will people start to wire their homes again for 48V DC? You could conceivably run your HVAC and fridges at least off of it, this would negate the need for a larger (more costly) inverter.

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