Perovskite Solar PV. FINALLY some good news!

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Perovskite is not a material most of us will have come across in normal daily life, but it has the potential to take solar photovoltaics to levels of efficiency that were previously thought to be impossible. The question of course, is the same one we ask about all new 'energy transition' technologies..."Does it actually work in the real world?" The answer, until recently, has been "No!" But that appears to be about to change in 2024.
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@leftcoaster67 3 месяца назад

As a Canadian. I enjoy hearing people are "beavering away".

@ArmageddonAfterparty 3 месяца назад

As a beaver, I enjoy people are away "hearing Canadians".

@leemason4024 3 месяца назад

Beavering?! He said, beavering 🦫 😂. In England I thought it was "rabbiting". I like beavering better I think.

@moiragoldsmith7052 3 месяца назад

@@leemason4024 I am in England too, my understanding is; ' Rabbiting' means talking incessantly. ' Beavering' means working dilligently.👍

@lylestavast7652 3 месяца назад

Moost interesting observation !

@skierpage 3 месяца назад

As a Canadian, "I believe... that the Beaver is a truly proud and noble animal"! -- Molson's I Am Canadian beer ad, the manifesto of the best part of North America

@LiiMuRi 3 месяца назад

As a chemist who has worked on perovskite-structured materials in general, and photovoltaic perovskites a bit too, I'd like to point out some small errors in the video: Perovskite mineral is CaTiO3, but this is not the "perovskite" in PV cells. Those materials are various lead halide materials, which have the same crystal structure as CaTiO3: the perovskite structure. But the chemical composition is completely different, as are the properties. You cannot make solar cells from CaTiO3

@arnoldvankampen3672 3 месяца назад

As I understand it, it is about adding the Perovskite as a layer to absorb more frequencies that somehow are passed on to the underlying normal silicon which absorbs less frequencies on its own. But then, what about the 1 micrometer film? I guess, the film is part of the sandwich that makes up the pv. How do they adhere the film to the silicon substrate? Furthermore, Perovskite here, seems to refer to the structure which is so typical for Perovskite more than to the actual atomic elements in the (perovskitian {?adjective?} structure. Unfortunately, no 1 micometer solar panel then?

@christophorus9235 3 месяца назад

@@arnoldvankampen3672 I believe the thin perovskite layer is transparent but able to collect in the blue and maybe ultraviolet wavelengths. Silicon currently does not collect this energy.

@danielpicassomunoz2752 3 месяца назад

They have lead

@ThibaultKreutzer 3 месяца назад

thanks for pointing that out. I had the same thought.

@davitdavid7165 3 месяца назад

So perovskite does not refer to a chemical, but a shape/ structure that multiple chemicals can take?

@joeamos-somasystemspvbatte6 3 месяца назад

As an installer, I cant wait to see some from the wholesalers as this would mean people in smaller properties could have a system worthwhile and get their bills down. They dont need to be big roofs or even face south. East West splits will work well, I do lots of them and my customers get their investment back with 5 -7 years with plenty of life to make and save a tonne of money.

@bjb7587 3 месяца назад

Yeah. I've seen several estimates for my house over the past five years or so. Can't make it work financially.

@meganegan5992 3 месяца назад

I'd also imagine lighter panels would be appreciated as a general safety and convenience benefit to your employees too.

@freeheeler09 3 месяца назад

Joe, agreed! On a lot of houses, the bit of roof facing south isn’t that big!

@teekanne15 3 месяца назад

@@meganegan5992 i doubt its gonna be lighter as the perovskite is additional to the silicone ones.

@yrr0r244 3 месяца назад

@@teekanne15most of the mass is made of glass, plastic and the aluminum for support structure. The photodiode part weighs very little.

@stefanweilhartner4415 3 месяца назад

the supercool thing is, that the additional efficiency is still there in winter where the loss of energy mostly affects the infrared part of the spectrum. using them vertically on a fence or balcony still gives you a good amount of efficiency in winter. the vertical installation is not perfect in summer but it is a better balance throughout the whole year for people who live a few thousand kilometer away from the equator. and together with a sodium ion battery, you get a quite affordable setup to produce cheap energy everywhere all year. btw.: the University of Bayreuth pushed sodium ion batteries to 165Wh/kg which is fantastic!!! the future of renewables is bright!!!

@SeekingBeautifulDesign 3 месяца назад

And panel temperature is often forgotten. Efficiency drops at T rises, but as T falls efficiency rises. I just had a 100W panel at peak winter sun, northern latitude, ideal alignment and on a clear day at subfreezing temperatures generate 110W while on a normal sunny summer day, you never get above 90W.

@jedics1 3 месяца назад

I didnt know this, do you have any numbers on its potential extra gains in winter? Current panels are already efficient enough in summer where even my small system makes way more power than I can use but the worst 3 months of winter are a real struggle so even a 10% gain would make a difference.

@PazLeBon 3 месяца назад

obvioulsy not possible fromn he sun directly, therefore must be snow r frost that reflects. therefore surrounding the floor with mylar or similkar woul do he same job and your panels not get wrecked vertically haha

@danilooliveira6580 3 месяца назад

that is a very good point, I didn't think about it this way. since visible and ultra-violet light get scattered by the atmosphere, a visible/blue light solar panel will be more efficient when not in direct sunlight than a normal solar panel. I imagine it would also make perovskite bifacial solar panels a lot more interesting for the same reason.

@beatreuteler 3 месяца назад

@@jedics1 You can't expect any extra gains as the time you can expose a panel to the mentioned performance is typically very short.

@Yanquetino 3 месяца назад

🎶 Sunshine on my rooftop makes me happy Sunshine in my car can make me smile Sunshine in my household is so lovely Sunshine almost always makes me high 🎵 (Apologies to John Denver)

@johnsee7269 3 месяца назад

Listening to him and this guy changes gloom and doom to positivity! That's good! "Coming home to a place I've never been before!" Marvelous!

@Verklunkenzwiebel 3 месяца назад

The Danny Kaye version.. soo funny

@edbail4399 3 месяца назад

Depending on petrol makes me crash.

@divyajnana 3 месяца назад

Think John would have loved it. Thanks@@edbail4399

@sb6489 3 месяца назад

I think you would like the song "Faces to the Sun" by Mango Grove.

@confusedofhinckley5294 3 месяца назад

Twelve years ago, I was planning to put 4kW of solar panels on the roof of my UK house, not just to save the planet, but to make the most out of the government's hopelessly overgenerous (at the time) Feed In Tarif. However, I was a bit worried what adding these panels might do to the value of my house. So, I asked a few estate agents whether such an installation might add, or detract value. And they all said..... "What are solar panels?" (!!!) I'd like to think we've moved on a bit.

@broadsword6650 3 месяца назад

My late father had a similar experience in the 1960s when trying to install loft insulation. He contacted all kinds of builders' merchants, hardware stores and the few DIY shops around at the time, and the overwhelming response was "what's loft insulation?". Always seems like "the industry" is well behind burgeoning consumer demand.

@jeffreyquinn3820 3 месяца назад

@@broadsword6650 I think it was just getting established here in Canada around that time. My parent's house had a whopping R6 or R7 in the attic.

@willxin4517 3 месяца назад

It is hard to always be cheer leading these folks involved with renewables and the new energy economy. But on the other hand we have a lot of just wait and see. This looks promising. It would be great if it all works out. Just to note what you said, solar/wind/storage IS the cheapest way to provide power in history. We don’t need to wait and see, we just need a lot of folks to get out of the way. And let folks get it done.

@EdSurridge 3 месяца назад

Subsidies is what works

@sammason2300 3 месяца назад

Storage how?

@tomheeks2830 3 месяца назад

@@EdSurridge We're past that point aren't we? Governments should be putting all their resources behind this research.

@NeblogaiLT 3 месяца назад

I expect this to be a near sure thing, as the largest solar panel manufacturers in their slides are already putting only 1 more generation of efficiency improvements to pure silicon cells, and then perovskites from then on.

@danilooliveira6580 3 месяца назад

it bothers me because most of these amazing technologies are fruit of capitalism and are behind patents, what slows progress. if everyone had access to each other's technologies and discoveries we could be much farther ahead, but they won't share because it may hurt their future profits. its the same bullshit as the covid vaccines. we were supposed to be working together.

@georgeorwell7291 3 месяца назад

I have to say I love your follow ups.... its easy to just take some lab article and think "here is the breakthrough", but we learned from Tesla.... prototypes are easy, production is hard. Thank you for following up the most probable candidates...

@stefanweilhartner4415 3 месяца назад

production with perovskite is also easy and cheap. but we don't have a breakthrough that is still missing. it is longevity of the perovskite layer. this still needs to be solved.

@JustHaveaThink 3 месяца назад

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it :-)

@beatreuteler 3 месяца назад

@@stefanweilhartner4415 In fact this is to be solved prior to mass production! That's why production is hard.

@MLMinReality 3 месяца назад

I've been really enjoying this series. Thank you for going back into these old video topics to review what has happened. I feel like more often than not big headlines get published on a new idea and then it disappears into the void. Seeing where these technologies are at after the headlines have come and gone is very helpful

@JustHaveaThink 3 месяца назад

Cheers. Glad you like them!

@Mtnsunshine 3 месяца назад

As a person who founded her own solar installation business for remote homes 27 years ago, I have seen many wonderful improvements in the hardware necessary to get electricity to these off-grid homes. This is yet another good improvement that should benefit people well into the future. 👍 Thanks for the update.

@nomadMik 3 месяца назад

I know somebody like that… you're not in San Luis Obispo, are you?

@cathyhaynes2903 3 месяца назад

As a homeowner living under gray Seattle skies and next to huge, shadow making evergreen trees, I'm looking forward to solar power that makes financial sense for me.

@Mtnsunshine 3 месяца назад

@@nomadMik Hi. NomadMik. No, I’m in Colorado. 🌞

@beatreuteler 3 месяца назад

@@cathyhaynes2903 maybe on the south side of the trees?

@cathyhaynes2903 3 месяца назад

That would be my neighbors roof. Not sure he'd go for that!

@SeeNickView 3 месяца назад

Wonderful video Dave. As someone in Solar PV, I'm eager to see Perovskite penetrate the market in the same way bifacial technology has in the last 5 or so years. With perovskite and bifacial modules, we definitely might be looking at 35% well before 2030.

@DanteVelasquez 3 месяца назад

Here's hoping!

@JustHaveaThink 3 месяца назад

Fingers crossed :-)

@rfree863 3 месяца назад

we dont need toxic lewd solar panels. really bad idea.

@kruegdude 3 месяца назад

Came for thoughts on solar PV, left with a previously unheard and wonderful new phrase “beavering away”. Thanks for all you do.

@longline 3 месяца назад

Very industrious animals, beavers

@rogerphelps9939 3 месяца назад

Very common here in the UK.

@EleanorPeterson 3 месяца назад

@@rogerphelps9939- Yes indeed. 'As busy as a beaver...'

@NelsonBrown 3 месяца назад

PV researchers are beavering away while "comfortable and rather complacent representatives of the fossil fuel industry" were cocking around.

@Neilhuny 3 месяца назад

I'm genuinely surprised it isn't in common use all over the English speaking world. We live and learn. I suspect there may be a problem using it with the association with the slang use of 'beaver'. Many British people have already changed their pronunciation of 'Uranus' in my lifetime because of American sensibilities. And 'pecan' is pronounced differently for broadly similar reasons. If we can influence you: please, never, ever say you have a fanny pack

@Praisethesunson 3 месяца назад

The answer to our problems is shown to us everyday. We just need to harness the energy provided to us by the best nuclear fusion reactor in the solar system. PRAISE THE SUN!

@bjb7587 3 месяца назад

IT'S A HELIOCENTRIC WORLD!

@TennesseeJed 3 месяца назад

Nature sure has a sense of humor.

@id10t98 3 месяца назад

Getting older isnt the best part of it however.

@danilooliveira6580 3 месяца назад

its been fucking with us since we invented science.

@winrampen1174 3 месяца назад

Dave, I'm pleased you took the time to come back to this. One metric that is super important is how much energy and water is required to make a solar cell. I've read somewhere that Perovskite cells require something like two orders of magnitude less energy to produce per watt of generating capacity. That means that the amount of time a solar cell has to operate before it digs itself out of the energy hole created by its manufacture is significantly less.

@skierpage 3 месяца назад

It's not super important, since the payback time for the energy invested is down to a couple of years. The EROEI objection was valid... 20 years ago.

@danilooliveira6580 3 месяца назад

@@skierpage if the panel was made from scratch, if it was recycled its even shorter.

@Muppetkeeper 3 месяца назад

Water is absolutely a key metric, these days, energy not so much. In China (and no doubt elsewhere) there are solar panel factories more or less being powered by solar panels. As that percentage of powered used coming from solar increases, the power demand becomes less of an issue.

@beatreuteler 3 месяца назад

@@Muppetkeeper That is correct, and the same is valid for those factories (and they are growing) that use closed loop water cycles for their production needs.

@Wishkeyn 3 месяца назад

Even if that's the case, this is a multi-junction cell, which means the silicon part of the cell are gonna be comparable to others. However if the 28% number is correct, you do get another 4-7% (~15-25% increase) with little extra water usage.

@SeekingBeautifulDesign 3 месяца назад

There is another approach to further improve efficiency: With current silicon is it is cheaper to buy extra panels than to use solar tracking. But, as the kWh per panel increases with perovskite layering, presumably cost/kWh will drop while cost/panel will rise. That sets the stage for tracking technology to become economically viable in general. (It is viable in the small set of edge cases where you need a certain amount of power, but have a limited space for panels.)

@wombatillo 3 месяца назад

I think efficiency is a bit of a non-issue assuming panels became still an order of magnitude cheaper. 10% efficiency is totally fine if the panels or film sheets cost tens of dollars. Most places are not efficiency limited in any way. What's more important in many higher latitudes is having enough extra panels to be able to make dual-sided west-east farms or have separate panel groups heading east, south and west and be completely ok with some of the panels producing next to nothing for 2/3 of the day time. Winter production also practically needs vertical panels which are not that great during the summer. If they're cheap enough so you can build a summer set and a winter set it won't matter much. Panels need to be so cheap that we can extend the morning and evening curves as far as possible. The mid-day production peak will soon be an actual problem because there is nowhere to dump the negatively priced electricity.

@markumbers5362 3 месяца назад

I like people like you that tumble the numbers and find new viable economic tipping points. Well done. I was mucking around with the idea of using my solar system to replace gasoline rather than grid electricity the other day and found that powering a car ( EV) saved me 4 times more money in gas than using to replace grid electricity. I then went a little further and thought what if I cover the entire 150 sq metre roof of my 4 bedroom home with panels and came up with this. It would cost $40k (Australian) and generate enough to power 14 EVs each travelling 400 klms each week for 20 years. The weekly solar cost of each EV would be $3.00. The cost was mind blowing enough but what really astounded me was that just one residential roof top could power 14 cars.

@SeekingBeautifulDesign 3 месяца назад

@@wombatillo I'm hoping the point of the video was that because of the efficiency gains, the overall cost per kwh would come down...so would maybe drop prices another 33% (assuming same manufacturing costs). The cheaper the cost/kwh, the more we can overproduce on peak and supplement shoulder periods. I like your optimism, but the video pointed out I think that we've hit the limit on solar panel frames. I hope we have another order of magnitude of price reductions on the silicon, but it's pretty far along the S curve now. Of course another halving of solar electricity is great if combined with perovskite or other multi layer technology, but 10x reduction...already costs to install on roofs is becoming the biggest issue. I hope you're right.

@NeblogaiLT 3 месяца назад

Things will likely go the opposite way. It is expected from perovskite solar panels to be extremely cheap, as they basically can be a film, instead of silicon+glass construction. So after the initial higher prices (where customers with limited roof area will want to pay more for the new tech with higher efficiency), the cost of silicon+perovskite sandwich should become similar to silicon-only designs as solar panel manufacturing transitions to it. And there may also be competition from extremely cheap (at a cost of much lower efficiency and product life) perovskite-only adhesive solar film products or similar.

@SeekingBeautifulDesign 3 месяца назад

@@markumbers5362 Australia and China may be the poster children for nation scale solar. Adelaide is always setting records for most days running entirely on solar/wind and batteries. And with heat in the north, solar output lines sort of well with air conditioning needs...(although everyone turning on AC after work is a bit of an issue...hence batteries...but batteries in EVs...better charge at work ;) I hope work charging accelerates).

@danburnes722 3 месяца назад

The added efficiency is really a big deal considering limited roof space for many home owners in the city. Excited to see the progress and new products coming out.

@beatreuteler 3 месяца назад

Not only the limited roof and facade space is a key here, but the economics of fully installed PVP's: The cost of 1 installed panel is approximately the same while power harvested is increased!

@shawnr771 3 месяца назад

Thank you for the commentary. Sometimes perfection gets in the way of good enough.

@JustHaveaThink 3 месяца назад

Couldn't agree more!

@shawnr771 3 месяца назад

@@JustHaveaThink I still want people to try for better but get something to market. Even if it is only test markets. Let us see how these differing applications fair in actual use. We will have successes and failures. Learn from all of them.

@world_still_spins 3 месяца назад

Unless your name is John B Goodenough. Perfection would never get in his way.

@4203105 2 месяца назад

@@world_still_spins I mean currently 6 fett of dirt are getting in his way, so perfection is the least of his problems.

@dogdooish 3 месяца назад

I certainly would NOT have laughed at you!!!! I had had solar running my house except the fridge and hot water in 1991!!! I used to tell people that it was the way to go, even demonstrated water pumping from a single 40watt panel to a farmer, he thought it was just a "Gadget" Now his whole farm runs on the Sun!!

@ravenx447 3 месяца назад

As always a clean concise informative and entertaining presentation, in my book one of the Top RU-vid presenters currently on the planet 👊🏻

@longline 3 месяца назад

"It's nature's way of havin' a bit of a laff with us"

@justinw1765 3 месяца назад

But really it is "at" methinks.

@MrArdytube 2 месяца назад

Through the wonders of youtube…. I came to this video immediately after watching a video about why the solar industry is collapsing. I have no bias either way… but that video did raise some salient points, The Dramatic increase of interest financing rates, the extended costs of many low ball priced installers, the fact that what we knew as net metering is going away…. Being replaced by 4x1…. Where you have to give 4 units to the power company in order to earn a one unit power credit… and the fact that this new arrangement makes battery back ups more desirable…. Along with a higher cost

@ForTheBirbs 3 месяца назад

Thanks for another great video. Sounds rather promising with Oxford. Cheers

@peterchandler8505 3 месяца назад

my exact thoughts!

@JustHaveaThink 3 месяца назад

Cheers. I hope so :-)

@Kevin_Street 3 месяца назад

Thank you for this video! This is one of the subjects you've previously covered where a follow-up is probably most valuable, because perovskites have such enormous potential. So the short answer to "Where are they now?" is that Oxford PV has made good progress on perovskite solar cells, and is on the verge of selling the first commercial product. Cubic PV is a few years behind them with lots of innovative new ideas and plenty of funding, but no factory built just yet. And behind them are researchers in different countries with their own innovations, but so far none have gotten outside of the lab. Well, here's hoping Oxford PV is a big success! Hopefully they'll pioneer this new technology, maybe with Cubic PV as their biggest competitor, making it both commercially successful and increasingly efficient. And then we'll reach the point where solar energy is so cheap and efficient it's just the natural choice for everyone. No warnings about the fate of the planet required: self interest and simple economics will drive adoption.

@beatreuteler 3 месяца назад

Yes!

@zelbinian 3 месяца назад

What excites me most about perovskite tech is the potential for automotive/transit. Currently Aptera is the only car company that can make solar charging worth it because of their insistence on extreme efficiency. If more cars could reliably recharge just from the sun then who needs charging networks!

@truhartwood3170 3 месяца назад

⬆️ efficiency + ⬆️ longevity + ⬇️ cost + ⬇️ weight = ⬆️ practical applications. It starts making sense to shoehorn in solar anywhere and everywhere, including areas that don't get great sun exposure or have perfect exposure angles or where weight is an issue or it's barely worth it with today's solar panels, eg tops of cars (so many people think this is an obvious idea, but for the added cost and complexity it barely adds a few miles of range per day - the equivalent of plugging in for a minute or two... assuming you've left your car in full sun all day. But if it's cheaper than paint, then it certainly makes sense!).

@sephiroth127 3 месяца назад

If we get to 35% efficiency, it might start making sense to install PVs on EVs and get almost 2kW on sunny days, being able to recharge ~10 km/h.

@danwylie-sears1134 3 месяца назад

For others who didn't recognize it either: Bob Monkhouse - 'People used to laugh at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well they're not laughing now.'.

@snowstrobe 3 месяца назад

Excellent research as per... Nature does seem to enjoy a laugh at our continued insistence on living linearly within her circular systems.

@Nsund 2 месяца назад

I'm a long time fan of perovskite and it's so pleasing to learn they've managed to reach sufficient longevity. Looking forward to the first perovskite car paint 😀

@martincotterill823 3 месяца назад

Cheers Dave! A tonic for my soul to hear some good news in these dark times. Keep up the good work!

@sb6489 3 месяца назад

It will be interesting to see how perovskite on perovskite works out - potentially cheaper than silicon for both (or more than 2) bandgaps. (Acknowledging that, by "perovskite" we mean perovskite-like materials.)

@beatreuteler 3 месяца назад

This would imply you have 2 different Perovskites that have this much different bandgap. Not sure if that comes any time soon.

@PeaceChanel 3 месяца назад

Thank You for supporting Solar and for All that you are doing for our Planet Earth.... Peace.. Shalom.. Salam.. Namaste 🙏🏻 😊 🌈 ✌ ☮ ❤

@markbernier8434 3 месяца назад

Real game changer for me is PV roll stock. Something that you can just alligator clip to the top and bottom and the more you unroll the higher the amperage. 1/2m for your phone, 2m for some lighting etc.

@PETERJOHN101 3 месяца назад

Somewhere I read that PV window film in a skyscraper would generate all the power needed for lighting, same obviously for homes.

@drillerdev4624 3 месяца назад

I heard several mentions about breakthroughs in perovskites, but here is the a lifespan of 25 years was first mentioned. I was sincerely not expecting that much

@orpheuscreativeco9236 3 месяца назад

Hi Dave, You may already be aware, but have you heard about fluorescing light guides? 🤔 Robert-Murray Smith talks about them and gives some demonstration here on RU-vid. The efficiency increase from this simple modification is astounding. It's more approachable for the everyday citizen of Earth, as well. Though I could imagine an even greater increase in energy capture once coupled with perovskite technology. 🧐 Great video 👍 Thanks for keeping us updated and in-the-know. I appreciate what you do for us here on the interwebs ✌️✨

@JosephJackson-uf1iw 3 месяца назад

Great video as usual. The increase in efficiency from 22% to 33% sounds great but I haven't seen anyone mention the fact that is a whopping great 50% increase in power output. My 5kWp array in Spain produces around 35 kWh per day in the summer months (more than my needs) but only around 12 to 15 kWh in the winter. That 50% increase in the winter would be a real bonus.

@mauroscimone8584 3 месяца назад

Yeahhhh finally!! 😍 i was following this tech for years, and now seems there are companies ready for production! Also 3Sun with Enel in Catania, Italy, also claim they are quite ready for Tandem Si/Perovskite cells!

@user-xy3lm6pw8j 3 месяца назад

Well, perovskite photovoltaic panels are already in early stages of deployment by Saule Technologies: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vaXsYQuOMYs.html

@jasenanderson8534 3 месяца назад

Great efforts all round and we eagerly await the commercial production of these and the cheaper tech solutions for solar for people who need it. The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades!

@mosfet500 3 месяца назад

Thanks Dave!

@mattesla 3 месяца назад

Super interesting news big supporter of PV have had them on every house I've owned so far

@dprcontracting6299 3 месяца назад

Nice one Dave. I come here for the information but know you'll give me at least one laugh per vid. Keep up the good work.

@joweb1320 3 месяца назад

Thank you.

@napierpaxman 3 месяца назад

I work just across the road from Oxford Solar PV - hello from First Light Fusion! :D

@snorttroll4379 3 месяца назад

Got some insode info for us? And how soes one succeed with a venture?

@andym4695 3 месяца назад

Heh. When I was a kid back in the '70s, I had a toy truck powered by a solar cell. It was one of the polycrystaline ones, with the silicon grains the size of your fingernail. It propelled the truck at a crawl, and I hesitate to imagine how much a megawatt of them would have cost. As a side note, many perovskites can be made to have catalytic properties.

@Aussiemoo 3 месяца назад

Funnily enough, at the micro-scale is where something like this would really help. Electronics with ultra-light super efficient solar panels would enable distributed sensors in a way not currently possible. This could help farmers target irrigation to drier parts of their fields, alert logistics companies to the location of equipment like trailers and dollies, amongst other things.

@emceeboogieboots1608 3 месяца назад

What are they used to catalyse?

@mikemellor759 3 месяца назад

Thank you for, as ever, giving the thumb nail overview of these technical developments. 😊👏👏

@NoAlbatross 3 месяца назад

Good update on the tech. Ty!

@daphnescombine 3 месяца назад

Thank you. Always enjoy your videos.

@johnsee7269 3 месяца назад

Your concise, insightful analysis always gives me hope for mankind's future no matter how bleak it seems to be at times... Thank you! 😮😢😊

@JustHaveaThink 3 месяца назад

You're very welcome. Thanks for your feedback :-)

@stunningsalman 3 месяца назад

I am from Pakistan. Your videos are really interesting and I love to watch your videos.

@williamjmansfield8768 3 месяца назад

Just like money at compound interest, incremental improvement over the long haul amounts to significant gain!

@KiwiTim 3 месяца назад

Thanks for the update Dave, keeping us on top of renewable tech developments as always, much appreciated ❤

@adammarshall6257 3 месяца назад

Imagine if we all worked together instead of competing in the "free market", we'd have solved all our problems already.

@JustHaveaThink 3 месяца назад

Indeed so.

@TheDanEdwards 3 месяца назад

"Imagine if we all worked together instead of competing in the "free market"" - a free market presumes cooperation in society. So you're making a false conflict there.

@DrakeN-ow1im 3 месяца назад

@@TheDanEdwards cooperation assumed, but not practiced. Competion and denegration of competing interests, conservation of existing investments and downright skullduggery in political manouvering are the defining actualities of the "free" market. Not to forget commercial and corporate takeovers creating quasi monopolies.

@Ev3ntHorizon 3 месяца назад

Your channel is so very entertaining. And of course informative. Greetings from the Antipodes.

@x64Joxer 3 месяца назад

Thanks

@critiqueofthegothgf 3 месяца назад

the TLDR segment is pure gold mate

@mb-3faze 3 месяца назад

5:03 - there are almost no solar panels on the roof of the factory making the solar panels!

@jimthain8777 3 месяца назад

Yeah, things like that are so annoying. If you really believe in your product it ought to be deployed on your premises, right?

@jwnomad 3 месяца назад

they have to build the factory first to make the panels to put on the roof

@Brattoes 3 месяца назад

Duhuh, they have to build the factory and panels first

@emceeboogieboots1608 3 месяца назад

@@BrattoesIt is an existing solar panel manufacturing facility. They have built a new line to manufacture the perovskite panels

@chrislecky710 2 месяца назад

The efficiency of solar panels is also intrinsically tied into their ability to be recycled. If they’re easily recycled and the infrastructure that exists to do so is readily available it makes using them in larger quantities and for more applications far more viable! I’m glad the technology is being pushed further and I look forward to seeing what is possible in future.

@mikevincent8728 3 месяца назад

Very informative and, dare I say it, slightly encouraging! Thanks Dave

@artisanelectrics 3 месяца назад

Great video! Can't wait to start installing these!

@lm1367 3 месяца назад

Thank you so much for your great work!!

@harveytheparaglidingchaser7039 3 месяца назад

Perovskite has a ring to it. Great episode

@datman6266 3 месяца назад

I hope they transform my house, as well as the market. Now for the real roadblock for home solar.. the battery! These updates are very good. To know that some of the claims actually will come true in the near future.

@freds4703 3 месяца назад

Excellent presentation. Thank you.

@cesardeleon3856 3 месяца назад

Gracias

@ariadgaia5932 3 месяца назад

I REEEEAAAALLY love your videos and how there aren't any ads! Thank you!!

@winnie796 3 месяца назад

Thank you

@frozenyogurtist 3 месяца назад

Thank you 🙂

@k.c.sunshine1934 3 месяца назад

I am an Albertan. We have a moratorium on solar and wind; there is fear that our electric system will become unstable because of the intermittent supply. I suggest that with solar, wind, that the government should encourage technology to allow individuals to store and release energy to provide for the needs of the grid as determined by the system operator. For example, the system operator could electronically call-out for release of electric vehicle battery energy into the grid when there is a risk of network instability. I think that forward-looking people in society would be happy to help stabilise the electric grid and get a discount on their electric bill at the same time.

@skierpage 3 месяца назад

Alberta's conservative government has fear that the fossil fuel era encouraging the disgusting pollution and emissions from filthy wasteful oil production from its tar sands is coming to an end. "Grid instability" is nonsense fear-mongering; the job of the grid is to balance different electrical generation sources and demands, and having new cheap electrical generation that operates at almost zero marginal cost is obviously a win, even if it's intermittent.

@k.c.sunshine1934 3 месяца назад

@@skierpageI respectfully disagree. The part that I agree about is that the government is playing politics so that it can delay the rapid change in CO2 emissions that the world needs. As a retired electrical engineer, I recognise that it is true that "grid instability" is a reality. I am also sure that there are practical solutions to be developed and encouraged by the government. We need a government that will encourage and incentivize innovative solutions of various kinds rather than put road-blocks to change. The only (laughable) attempt that the Alberta government is know for is "Carbon Capture and Storage." In other words, they have incentivized the continuing use of oil and gas and potentially ignored solutions to the grid stability issue.

@Anopheles6 3 месяца назад

@@skierpage. It’s not nonsense at all. Look up “duck back curve”. It’s a real problem and getting worse. A thermal, combined cycle plant takes half a day to a day to wind production up and down. Yes you can plan ahead, but it can’t respond to hourly variations, say intermittent cloud cover. Do you want your power going off randomly? All the time? If you want to know what that’s like, look up South Africa. They have a power shortage and have daily blackouts. (Most scheduled)

@fiddlerJohn 3 месяца назад

Love your videos. Great info. thanks.

@JustHaveaThink 3 месяца назад

Glad you enjoy them :-)

@veronicathecow 3 месяца назад

Nice video as always, many thanks

@JustHaveaThink 3 месяца назад

Thanks Veronica. Glad you enjoyed it :-)

@leemason4024 3 месяца назад

Thanks for another great video

@JustHaveaThink 3 месяца назад

Glad you enjoyed it :-)

@samedwards6683 3 месяца назад

Thanks so much for creating and sharing this informative and timely video. Great job. Keep it up. I have been following the progress in Perovskite cells for years. To me, the holy grail is an inexpensive mylar (or similar) covered solar cell wrap that you can then use to wrap your house, roof, car, light poles, etc. Having solar cell covered walls / picket fences / etc. would be amazing. I am now reading about laboratory samples of clear glass (equivalent) solar cells. Imagine replacing building windows with such glass (in 2035?). I hope that most of this stuff is salt water proof as they are all arriving or will be arriving too late to help us meet the 1.5C deadline.... Exciting but: Sadness....

@happyzahn8031 3 месяца назад

They are still very expensive. About $20-30K for a house in the US. Its about a 15 year payback. which is pretty much break even if their life is 20 years and something happens like squirrels. Hopefully, things will get to where regular people can put them on their houses.

@dm1045 3 месяца назад

I saw a video recently about a UK study on vertically oriented solar panels that produce better than st standard orientation. It might be a good topic to look into. As always enjoy your programs and look forward to watching every Sunday night!

@youxkio 3 месяца назад

Good job, Dave. I remember doing research about solar back in 2020 and finding the "ix-junction III-V solar cells with 47.1% conversion efficiency under 143 Suns concentration" research paper.

@joelaichner3025 3 месяца назад

Quality update

@thedevereauxbunch 3 месяца назад

One of the few great sources of information whose voice I can stand listening to. Love you don’t shy away from being real

@terrystephens1102 2 месяца назад

Another excellent presentation, thanks. 😁👌👌👌❤️❤️

@BitBert 3 месяца назад

Thank you very much for those intelligent and informed subjets that are of the most importance for our survival as a species! Merci et continuez le bon travail...

@Aroundthesquarebowl 2 месяца назад

Thank you ❤

@dermotdonnelly5495 3 месяца назад

Great video as usual.

@pierrelecaillou6966 3 месяца назад

Dear friend, thanks for an excellent and comprehensive presentation. Today I learned. Oh, and greetings from New Mexico🙂

@Talon771 3 месяца назад

Random comment for channel interaction.

@ricoma6037 3 месяца назад

TY! ❤

@VideoconferencingUSA 3 месяца назад

Nice job

@cameronf3343 3 месяца назад

As an aspiring off-gridder I’m almost too excited for these!! I’m saving up to buy land and build a home, by the time I’m there these should be super distributed and hopefully much lower cost.. Perovskites solar and Sodium Ion home batteries are definitely what I’m most looking forward to for the coming years

@petrosros 3 месяца назад

Washing lines are pretty good at drying your clothes and very simple to construct, it's Feb 12 in England today, that is winter for those that do not know, and I will have dried three fall machine loads since Sunday. It helps if it's not raining, but nothing is perfect, and you just need to keep an eye on the weather. Oh, and if you are interested, that is in North London.

@Thaumazzar 3 месяца назад

Yep this is the year I'm finally going solar. It's cheap enough that it would be dumb not to.

@chrischild3667 3 месяца назад

👍If you can, get a battery with it

@johnthomas5806 3 месяца назад

thanks for this information...

@JustHaveaThink 3 месяца назад

You're welcome :-)

@Luddite-vd2ts 3 месяца назад

Thank you, as always. Other ways of increasing the efficiency of solar production? Vertical mountings Cooling solar panels in extreme temperatures Agrovoltaics

@bertanelson8062 3 месяца назад

This was a very informative video. Thank you!

@mcln2 3 месяца назад

Nice animation! Glad you hire someone to help you

@punditgi 3 месяца назад

Excellent video 🎉😊

@JustHaveaThink 3 месяца назад

Thank you 🤗

@user-xy3lm6pw8j 3 месяца назад

Not so much, Dave made big blunder because he did not presented already producing company Saule Technologies Perovskite photovoltaic panels are already in early stages of deployment by Saule Technologies: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vaXsYQuOMYs.html

@LTVoyager 3 месяца назад

Just remember to multiply the time to market estimates by the appropriate reality factor. These values are: 3 for scientists 5 for management 10 for marketing

@davidkendall2272 3 месяца назад

Tony Seba fan and he has been spot on relative to disruptive technology adoption for electric transport and renewable energy!

@johanschoeman869 3 месяца назад

Great and informative video. Well done.

@survivalinthezombieapocaly2142 3 месяца назад

Sure! It's really cool! See also: Solar power plant mounted in multi-storey building! (for survivors in the zombie apocalypse): Shorts version: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-k9AiiCLALRA.html Full version: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sOskjOsl-cA.html

@CurtisCarlson-lm8ox 3 месяца назад

Thanks!

@JustHaveaThink 3 месяца назад

Thanks for your support. Much appreciated :-)

@chrisfox5525 3 месяца назад

There’s some new Dutch research that suggests the angle of solar panels is all wrong, would be good to hear your interpretation of that. Keep up the good work 👍

@tonywozere909 3 месяца назад

Saule Technologies, Poland, is another. They develop inkjet-printed, ultra-thin, and flexible solar cells based on perovskites.

@user-xy3lm6pw8j 3 месяца назад

Yes, he missed to show the company that have already deployed commercial installation. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vaXsYQuOMYs.html

@tonywozere909 3 месяца назад

@@user-xy3lm6pw8j To be fair Saule are still very small but all good luck to them, their developments look highly promising. I am interested in supercapacitors and the potential for PV energy harvesting for IOT devices.