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What has caused this apparent stagnancy, in the development of more efficient solar cells?
I suspect it's a combination of three factors:
First, there's a fundamental limit of the efficiency of solar cells. A solar cell is effectively a heat engine that uses the 6000K Sun as the heat ...
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