Solar power: Golden sandwich could make the world more sustainable

[Anonymous No.11623850]

>Scientists have developed a photoelectrode that can harvest 85 percent of visible light in a 30 nanometers-thin semiconductor layer between gold layers, converting light energy 11 times more efficiently than previous methods.

Gold truly is a useless metall isn't it? Oh, keep buying your silly 1's and 0's, and I keep on stacking what's hold its value for thousands of years.

[Anonymous No.11623866]

Link?

[Anonymous No.11623963]

>>11623850
85% yield on solar panels has been a thing for years, I even learnt about it when I was in uni. The major problem about that is that its FUCKING EXPENSIVE to do, and it's cheaper to shit out twenty times more sub 10% yield solar panels (except when you are making a satellite).

[Anonymous No.11623976]

>>11623963
This is fresh research. Maybe you just dropped out of college, otherwise you are one hell of a dumb cunt.

[Anonymous No.11623978]

>>11623850
>..between gold layers
Seems like a financial viable alternative to fossile fuel..

[Anonymous No.11624018]

>>11623976
>This is fresh research
There is an older joke about how humanity have cured cancer a dozen of times - in mice.
The point is that most research/discoveries will never come into real life application. There are all sorts of different reasons for this, the tech is too fragile e.g. the solar plates can harvest 85% of visible light, 5% of the times, the other 95% of the times it is broken. Sometimes these can be fixed, other times they can't.
another possibility is that it is too expensive relative to alternatives or what you gain from it.

Scientist will always prop up their research and emphasize the real world application of it, in an unrealistic manner. They are like a group of Indian men shilling an ICO, "which will revolutionize our world".

[Anonymous No.11624618]

solar power is and always was a state subsidized Boomer scam. No tax exemptions, no profit

[Anonymous No.11624896]

>>11623850
You are focusing on the wrong metric. Efficiency doesn't matter, price per watt does. And price per watt has been low enough for a long time now that it's not the stumbling block anymore at any rate, sub 3c kWh amortized over a few years is easily hit with present price per watt in a totally reasonable land footprint. But you have to more than double your baseload because of variance, and you have to supply energy storage for downtime which is... 0.23 usd kWh, significantly more than grid in a great many places.

Until somebody gives me a few million for my solution you're all stuck with it because you're wasting your time on complex and expensive battery technology. Fuck you all from the bottom of my engineering oriented autistic heart that resents having to sell you on a superior economic solution so instead I'll just deploy it for myself and monetize it mining crypto until you wake up and realise you need to stop pissing about.

[Anonymous No.11624960]

Except gold being over $1,200 defeats its whole purpose.

[Anonymous No.11625023]

Mfw when humanity wipes itself out via doomsday rock trying to harvest gold from an asteroid for clean energy.

[Anonymous No.11625302]

>>11624896
You sir, know your shit.

[Anonymous No.11625314]

>>11624896
>But you have to more than double your baseload because of variance, and you have to supply energy storage for downtime
Dang anon, that's a good point.
If only there were a way to reliably make money from waste energy.
To "mine" the value of it, if you will.

[Anonymous No.11625380]

>>11624896

Set up a company and an address where we can drop our contributions