The main issue is with longevity, once they solve that, I am hopeful they will then this will dominate the Solar market completely and replace all the Silicon based single band gap panels. Even someone with relatively recent panels of 20-22% would benefit a lot from 35% panels, that is a lot of extra power in the same space.

[–] exanime 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is longevity currently a deal breaker?

Asking because I'm pretty sure just saw an article about solar panels from the 90s that were still working at 70+% capacity

[–] oyo@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's an issue for perovskite cells. "Traditional" silicon cells (which makes up probably 90+% of current installs) last 40+ years.

[–] exanime 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the info

[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.ml -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Longevity issues combined with harmful rare mineral extraction kinda eats ass in the long run

[–] exanime 2 points 5 months ago

Worse the the status Quo though?

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