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Originally Posted by psicodude
Pretty cool, but doesn't a 30% jump in effeciency bring it from "Terrible" to "Sucky"?
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But this innovation isn't about improving the performance of the best solar-panels out there; it's about making cheap plastic ones better; cost of manufacturing has always been the big prohibitor for solar panels. If you can get something that's dirt cheap and performs nearly as well as the silicon ones, it then becomes possible to put them on every roof; probably not enough to make most homes 'grid free', but enough to really take the load off the power system.