• Tja@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    Renewable efficiency is close to the theoretical limit. Solar cell have a limit just over 33% and current models have efficiency of around 25%.

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      4 months ago

      Renewable efficiency is close to the theoretical limit.

      There’s still plenty of juice to squeeze in terms of cost to manufacturer, deploy, and maintain. This isn’t purely a question of cell efficiency.

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      4 months ago

      if the component is at its limit, then you can come up with ways to use that component more efficiently. Also reducing the size of the whole thing also increases efficiency singe you can stuff more of them in same area

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        4 months ago

        Tha area is given by the suns light. The sun gives us around 1000w per m2. The theoretical limit is 330w converted to electrical power. Current panels achieve 250w.

        This is not a GPU, making things smaller doesn’t give you any gains.