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That's close to the time frame when I realized solar was going to win just based on pure business accounting. Thing to consider the ultimate price of a manufac
by Gibbon1 3y ago
That's close to the time frame when I realized solar was going to win just based on pure business accounting.
Thing to consider the ultimate price of a manufactured good tends to track production volume, device complexity, and energy required to produce including raw material.
Solar panels require complex machines to produce but are themselves simple, the volume is high at scale, and energy requirements are low. That points to something where the price is close to the energy and material costs.
- marcosdumay 3y ago> energy requirements are low They can surely become low, but currently they are not. The EROEI of PV panels is barely on the region where it stops being one of the largest factors in its cost. But yeah, PV has space to improve a by a few orders of magnitude more.