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U.S. startup develops 28%-efficient perovskite-silicon tandem solar module (www.pv-magazine.com)
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[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought that I had read that we are close to the theoretical max efficiency for solar. That may have been in a comment and completely false, but it may be something to look into if it interests you. If there is validity, then there just may not be enough room for those large jumps. I think making them out of safer materials and trying to make the mfg process greener would offset some of the shortcomings of efficiency.

[–] ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Of silicon panels.
In the lab, mixing silicon and perovskites has already achieved 34%.