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A group of researchers from the National University of Science and Technology (MISIS) in Moscow, in cooperation with their colleagues from the University of Texas at Dallas, managed to develop a flexible solar battery which is at least three times cheaper than its silicon analogues, the MISIS website reported.
Led by Professor Anvar Zakhidov, MISIS scientists created a thin-filmed photoelectric cell based on hybrid metal-organic compounds called perovskites, which in turn made it possible to hammer out an advanced solar battery, according to the website.
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"Before long, this new technology will give way to light, flexible, and cheap solar panels based on perovskites to be used for charging and powering a bevy of electronic devices, from tablets to buildings' electrical grids," the website said.
With the fragile silicon solar panels currently costing about 300 dollars per square meter, the estimated cost of perovskite solar panels will be less than 100 dollars per square meter.
During mass production of the solar batteries, this price difference is most likely to be increased by at least six times, scientists said, also pointing to toxic production of the silicon solar batteries.
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the result from actual installation and use which hopefully verify the promo.
"Before long, this new technology will give way to light, flexible, and cheap solar panels based on perovskites to be used for charging and powering a bevy of electronic devices.."
In the sense that Americans think of a battery, as a storage of electrical energy, these panels are not batteries, but are collectors that turn sunlight into electricity and do not store it, is my take on these.