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Breakthrough barium titanate solar panels are 1000x more powerful than existing panels (www.thebrighterside.news)

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Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have discovered a new method to increase the efficiency of solar cells by a factor of 1,000. The team of scientists achieved this breakthrough by creating crystalline layers of barium titanate, strontium titanate, and calcium titanate, which were alternately placed on top of one another in a lattice structure.

Their findings, which could revolutionize the solar energy industry, were recently published in the journal Science Advances.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Impossible to be literally true, so quite literally "incredible" if 1000x or 1000%. The sun doesn't emit that much energy more than current solar panels can manage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, a kilowatt per square meter (perpendicular to the sun angle). We only need something like 5 times for 100% efficiency

The article must be either entirely bullshit or using an odd baseline to raise a thousand times

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Most solar panels are ~20% efficient. So (100-20)/1000=0.08%, 100-0.08=99.92% efficient (1000x less energy loss) (you could do it the other way, but that would make less sense)