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Originally Posted by sammyg2
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They've been working to develop PV CELL technology since 1883! THAT'S 128 YEARS!
This is not some new thing that's in it's infancy of R&D.
A whole bunch of very, very smart people have spent their entire lives trying to solve this problem with very little success.
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Spot on.
fwiw, I had a long (hours) conversation with one of those guys. A German who had spent quite a bit of his life looking at gathering other spectrum, using other materials. (other than the narrow spectrum/materials now used) He went on about some of the better experiments, where they could grab a similar amount power from a different spectrum. . . and the material used . . . would last for a few milliseconds. (at best)
Even though he saw funding to continue indefinitely, he was looking to make a career change. ...to do something that might actually prove fruitful. :-/