{"id":138730,"date":"2022-04-27T00:03:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T05:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/solar-3-0-this-new-technology-could-change-everything"},"modified":"2022-04-27T00:03:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T05:03:48","slug":"solar-3-0-this-new-technology-could-change-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/solar-3-0-this-new-technology-could-change-everything","title":{"rendered":"Solar 3.0: This New Technology Could Change Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tQmFVcD-Mbo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Perovskite solar cells might revolutionize how humans generate energy from sunlight.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brilliant.org\/ElectricFuture\">https:\/\/brilliant.org\/ElectricFuture<\/a>.<br \/> First 200 people get 20% off annual premium subscription.<\/p>\n<p>In this video we\u2019ll explore the world\u2019s fastest improving new solar technology, and provide an exclusive peek inside the lab of a team working on this breakthrough material.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine an inexpensive solution of perovskite crystals that can make a photovoltaic cell so thin, that just half a cup of liquid would be enough to power a house. A solar panel so lightweight, that it can be balanced atop a soap bubble. That is known as the holy grail of solar energy. So when will we see perovskite solar panels used for a solar power system for your home? Maybe sooner than you expect.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, only 2% of global electricity comes from solar power. And 90% of that, comes from crystalline silicon-based solar panels, the dominant material technology.<\/p>\n<p>While abundant, silicon has downsides related to efficiency, manufacturing complexity, and pollution that prevent it from being an absolute no brainer. Emerging thin films like perovskites present a bright future. Imagine solar cars like a solar tesla, solar yachts, or a solar plane.<\/p>\n<p>Solar cell technologies can be classified into two categories, wafer-based or thin-film cells. Perovskites are the leading contender in emerging thin films. Topics covered in this video include applications, perovskite crystal structure, working principle of perovskite solar cells, efficiency limits, multi-junction solar cells, shockley-queisser limit, how solar works, solar simulator, band gap, manufacturing, vapor deposition, how solar panels are made, and the future of solar power.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/solar-3-0-this-new-technology-could-change-everything\">Continue reading \u201cSolar 3.0: This New Technology Could Change Everything\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perovskite solar cells might revolutionize how humans generate energy from sunlight. https:\/\/brilliant.org\/ElectricFuture. First 200 people get 20% off annual premium subscription. In this video we\u2019ll explore the world\u2019s fastest improving new solar technology, and provide an exclusive peek inside the lab of a team working on this breakthrough material. Imagine an inexpensive solution of perovskite [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}