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RewindAgain to FuturologyEnglish · 2 months ago

An international team of researchers has developed a groundbreaking transparent solar cell that achieves a record-breaking efficiency of 12.3%.

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An international team of researchers has developed a groundbreaking transparent solar cell that achieves a record-breaking efficiency of 12.3%.

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RewindAgain to FuturologyEnglish · 2 months ago
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Toward manufacturing semitransparent solar cells the size of windows
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In an important step toward bringing transparent solar cells to home windows, researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a way to manufacture their highly efficient and semitransparent solar cells. Study: Multilevel peel-off patterning of a prototype semitransparent organic photov
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  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    From the article …

    Organic solar cells have lagged behind their silicon-based cousins for energy-producing purposes due to engineering challenges such as low efficiency and short lifespans, but recent work out of Forrest’s lab has achieved record efficiencies of 10% and estimated lifetimes of up to 30 years.

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      Nifty!

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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      That’s pretty fuckin spiffy

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    Another team has done the same in Denmark. I wonder how soon we will see these at consumer level for residential buildings?

    https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/03/26/solar-panel-windows-that-could-turn-whole-buildings-into-power-plants-smash-electricity-re

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    This kind of stuff would be way simpler to install in non-residential buildings. And you still need a transformer / converter. Big windows better.

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