Quote from: K-Dog on Apr 10, 2024, 11:17 PM

QuoteThe MLU team irradiated the cell with laser light to test the new material, and the results surprised them. Compared to pure barium titanate of a similar thickness, the current flow was up to 1,000 times stronger, despite the proportion of barium titanate having been reduced by almost two-thirds.

But that is not from your article.  Your article garbled the fact.  So no, 1000x is not compared to silicon.  My source.

As Silicon is between 14 and 19 % efficient for commercial panels now, 1000x would be impossible.  If this was a game changer it would be all over the news, and my source is two years old.  Don't hold your breath.

Yea, I vaguely remembered that the efficiency of solar panels in converting sunlight to electricity was under 50%, so I couldn't figure out how you could get 1000X more juice out of it, no matter what the material was.  I also know that anything that sounds too good to be true always is.  It was cleverly written though to confuse the facts.  I knew either you or NF would find the flaw, that's why I dropped it on the board.

This is clearly counter-propaganda to the information leaking into the MSM regarding the infeasability of meeting the goals of powering up the grid enough with carbon-free energy to meet the new projections with the added loads of data mining and AI.  Not that they could have met them just with an all EV transportation fleet and residential and commercial heating anyhow.

I'll still be interested to see if any panels made from this material become commercially available  and either significantly raise the efficiency over 50% or come cheaper than the cirrent generation of PV panels.  That would make a difference for doomsteaders with off grid systems.

RE