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Solar panels have come a long way, but despite their advancements, most are still based on silicon. The next generation of solar technology, using Perovskite, has struggled to gain traction because it hasn’t been durable enough for real-world applications. However, recent breakthroughs might change that, potentially making Perovskite solar panels commercially viable. So, how does this technology work, and what could its impact be? We had so much fun making this super interesting video—let’s dive in and explore together!

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Chapters
0:00 - Introduction
1:00 - Why Small Increases in Efficiency Matter
3:00 - What is a Perovskite Solar Cell?
7:30 - Solving the Durability Problem
10:42 - Sandwiching the panels
13:12 - The Drawbacks of Perovskites
14:00 - Levelized Cost Breakdown Vs. Traditional

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[marginbuu]

Still in development. Got it. Just like solid state batteries, superconductors, and fusion.

[InimitaPaul]

My panels are 23% efficient and have a minimum of 23 years left in them, I won’t be changing to Perovskite for an extra 2% anytime soon.

[stefanweilhartner]

something that nobody has on their radar is, that these perovskite solar cells are much better in winter because they expand the light spectrum to higher frequencies that do not suffer that much. the loss in winter is more in the infrared spectrum.
that means when a normal 500W panel goes down to 50W on a bad winter day, a 500W perovskite panel might only go down to 75W

[eclecticcyclist]

The main advantage of Perovskite is that it can be vacuum deposited on top of a glass- silicon solar panel and share the glass substructure without adding significant weight, also because Perovskites absorb light at frequencies that silicion cells don't and via versa a tandem perovskite/silicon solar panel is vastly more effcient with little extra cost.

[LiranBarsisa]

0:15 x100 more efficient than current solar cells
1:20 It 25% vs 20% that solar cells have
Can anyone explain the Math here? How could x100 times more efficient result in just 5% increase...
Also how can it be x100 more efficient ? The max could be x5, unless it gets energy from other sources...
Even 100% more efficient would be 40% and not 25%...

[Muppetkeeper]

If traditional solar cells are 20% efficient, how can any panel be 100 times more efficient?

[johannesdolch]

The real problem isn't Solar panels. It's Storage. The price of solar comes down anyway. With or without these cells. It's the grid that's the problem. We need to ramp battery production like crazy.

[xungnham]

The elephant in the room isn't the cost of the panel or the efficiency; it's the $850 of installation cost per panel. Breaking that down, being generous, it's probably $150 for mounting hardware and inverters and the rest is what the contractor is charging for labor, so $700 per panel for labor. Over 30 panels, that's $21000. There is clearly room for that number to be lower. I mean you watched them install it, how many man-days was used for the work? Again being generous, maybe 4 man-days? It's literally just someone climbing onto a roof a couple dozen times with a load and screwing it down; it's less labor than installing an actual roof. How much does someone need to charge for 4 man-days of labor and run a profitable business? Maybe $5k? Installers are treating early adopters as a gold mine; they are charging what the market will bear factoring in govt incentives and local electricity rates to get a decent ROI. If they charged a fair price of $5k, bringing the total cost of a 12000W system to $14k and a breakeven ROI of less than 2 years, everyone would sign up.

The problem with solar isn't for lack of breakthroughs over existing panels. The problem is the market and competitive landscape of installers to charge a fair price for an honest day's work.

[scottstormcarter]

It all depends on the degradation factor. Regular silicon last 30-40 years at reduced output. How fast is the perovskite degradation? If I had limited space and was expecting better panels to be available in 15years, and the cost being right. Then perovskite makes sense. If I have plenty of space I would prefer ones that last longer, but all comes down to price and effort installing. So many things can change very soon.

[TimMountjoy-zyfd]

The US is SO inefficient for Solar. I put 30 panels = 9KW system on my roof for AUD $ 14.5k = USD $ 10k and he talks of $ 30, 000 for his 30 panels. He pays $ 850 per panel for installation. I had 2 people for a day and they installed 30 panels with inverter and website linked in and it was ONE DAY ONLY.

[lumtavon]

Your USD 30k solar panel system cost around 15k in Europe! Why???

[MikesTropicalTech]

Removing a few panels in a home system has a tiny effect on overall price you will be quoted. The main costs are the sales cycle, engineering, permitting, transport, getting a crew on site, same inverter, nearly the same wire, nearly the same racking, etc. Perovskites will be good when they mature but pushing them as an up-front cost saver in anything but commercial scale is the wrong direction.

[FreekHoekstra]

Come on man, it is 100% more efficient not 100 times more efficient.
And that is under perfect conditions that have not actually been reached yet .
The best is like low 30’s % efficiency versus like 22% efficient for single junction, solar panels.
And you mentioning yourself that this new panel that’s about to launch is 25% efficient which compared to 20% is only 25% more efficient…

I like your videos man you’re getting the basics completely wrong here .
100 times more efficient would mean we have a panel that is 20% x 100 = 2000% efficient.
Pretty obviously not what’s happening .

100% more efficient even that claim is hard to defend but yes the medically some are getting close like the 40% barrier .
And most solar PV cells are actually a bit below 20% so ok, but this is full on disinformation you need to take down this video and re-edit it, and re-upload it.
This is perfect ammo for people who are solar panels to use and abuse against the general right direction that people should be heading .

Plus, it might discourage people who should be buying solar panels to not buy them when they absolutely should .
We don’t know when these are coming we don’t know how much more expensive they’re going to be because they’re probably going to be perky plus semi conductor so they’re going to be more costly at least for the foreseeable future, so people should buy solar panels that are available now they are extremely cheap and extremely profitable today.

And irritatingly that’s a conclusion of your video … which otherwise is really good.
Why do you have to put in these hype numbers that are just plain, obviously, wrong.
Please fix this . And please stop doing it.

[__________]

500 dolllars for maintenance? I just duct tape power washers on my toddlers and put them on the roof

[kermitefrog]

This is like any technology. A little increase here and there adds up with the end product.

[ericthecyclist]

My solar panels lasted about one year until one of the microinverters fried. I had gotten out of the habit of checking the individual module output so it was 6 months (including most of summer) before I realized it. It got replaced under warranty, and I'm told it's nearly unheard of but, I would suggest checking that your microinverters are still producing every week or two.

[NdxtremePro]

Maybe we can just make the Perovskite layer replaceable, and adapted it to current panels as well. That would be a true win all around, right?

[hws]

The key words are at the very beginning "will release". Let's wait and see if (a) they will release and (b) they will in business in 5 years. Also, they "will be cheaper" I will wait as $20k is still way too much - that's 5-6 years of electricity consumption

[ciscoterres]

probably meant 100% more efficient. 20% to 40%

[smeggyhead]

0:16 "... PV cell efficiencies 100x higher than current commercial cells"
So 100 x 20% efficiency = 2000%, so yielding 20x more power output than input ?!