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Solar cells with one-day energy payback for the factories of the future
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Scalability is a requirement before any new energy source can be expected to house a possible solution to the challenge that mankind’s increasing energy demand presents. No renewable energy source is as abundant as the Sun and yet efficient and low-cost conversion of solar energy still has not been developed. We approach the challenge by firstly taking a technology that efficiently addresses the need for daily production of 1 GWp on a global level, which does not employ elements with critically low abundance and has a low thermal budget. We then applied life cycle assessment methodologies to direct research and developed such technology in the form of a polymer solar cell that presents a significant improvement in energy payback time (EPBT) and found that very short energy payback times on the order of one day are possible, thus potentially presenting a solution to the current energy gap of >14 TW by year 2050.
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- Authors
- Espinosa, N., Hösel, M., Angmo, D., & Krebs, F. C.
- Venue
- Energy Environ. Sci.
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- Published
- 2012
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5117-5132
- ISSN
- 1754-5692 (ISSN-L)
- 1754-5706
- OpenAlex
- W2001474611
- Cited by
- 496
- References
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- FWCI
- 43.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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