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The "making silicium" part is indeed similar enough to making aluminium that there shouldn't be much of a problem there. It needs lots of electricity, but isn't
by corty 5y ago
The "making silicium" part is indeed similar enough to making aluminium that there shouldn't be much of a problem there. It needs lots of electricity, but isn't terribly hard. The complicated part is in growing silicium monocristals, slicing them up, doping them, adding contacts and concentrators, etc. Kind of like building microchips, only that the structures are in mm sizes instead of nm.
- pfdietz 5y agoWe could see shipment of PV cells to be assembled into modules locally. Also, don't forget the mounting hardware, which has seen surprising innovation as well. It's a significant part of the cost. Example: https://www.jurchen-technology.com/products/pv-substructures/peg/ https://www.jurchen-technology.com/products/pv-substructures...