99% Saving in cost?

[Ian Anderson]

Breakthrough in solar panel manufacture promises cheap energy within a decade - Science - News - The Independent

Quoting from the article
"but magnesium chloride is about one per cent of the cost of cadmium chloride"

At this rate they will be able to make the solar panels affordable

 

[Larry L.]

"...the efficiency of the resulting photovoltaic cells made from cadmium telluride and magnesium chloride were on a par with commercial cadmium telluride cells that had been activated with toxic cadmium chloride."

"Toxic"? Well now, that's a little factoid I'll bet none of us has ever heard 'the greenies' mention, 'innit'. It would spoil their narrative a bit, wouldn't it.

 

[Ian Anderson]

Thaught you may like that one Larry

Actually I'm surprised Mark Pickford has not chimed in as he was big o energy market stuff in the UK

But a saving of 99% on the cost of the product that is also the Toxic one certainly is a bog saving - especially for the Green Lefties like Larry

Ian

 

[Robert May Eng.]

Great news , now we will have the ongoing problem of no one wanting to litter the countryside with the pig ugly things. I have a friend that fitted a load of this junk to his roof at enormous cost and to say he is dissatisfied with its performance is an understatement. They belong in the desert unfortunately which is going to put our energy production back into the laps of the Arabs which will probably be about right timewise with the oil wells drying up. And then we will have a sunshine tax to replace all the lost revenues from fuel duty that our government has become reliant on.

Bob