A New, Efficient Solar Material Could One Day Roll On To Windows http://bit.ly/1RnbvcQ
It took silicon-based solar panel technology 30 years to reach an efficiency of 21%. At the end of 2015, a new kind of solar material hit that milestone in a research lab in just three years, making it the fastest improving solar technology to date.
If the material, a crystalline mineral made of calcium and titanium called perovskite, works out as researchers hope, it could one day provide an alternative to today’s silicon-based solar panels that is at once cheaper, more efficient, and lightweight.
Rolls of the material could be thin, flexible, and lightweight, and could even be printed on building glass. Stranks estimates that a perovskite solar cell could ultimately cost less than half of its silicon counterparts.
2019/2020 might be just enough time for this calcium/titanium solar panel to be fully commercialized. Which ought to see an uptick in demand for anyone with Titanium production.
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