Solar Panels
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Coogan: Roof solar panels take five months to charge an EV
“There are cars that have solar panels on the roof, but solar panels are extremely weak, and so you'd have to leave the car outside for, like, five months to charge a full electric car.”
Paruri: Tandem PV has achieved over 30% panel efficiency
“Take that into the context of a recent announcement that we just made, which is that we've now crossed 30% efficiency On a solar panel, right?”
Su: Captive coal plants supply 60% of energy for Chinese solar manufacturing
“So it's kind of like you know, behind the meter for coal for a solar facility. So it's accounting for, I've seen some estimates, accounting for 60% of the energy used to produce these solar panels.”
Happi: Solar panel manufacturing costs dropped 99.6% over 50 years
“If you look at the trajectory over the last 50 years, the cost of making a solar panel has gone down by 99.6%.”
Moskowitz: Nearly all solar panels purchased in the US are domestically assembled
“And, you know, we're at a point now where, you know, if you're a buyer of solar panels in the United States, pretty much every panel you're going to get is at least domestically assembled.”
Welling: Perovskite-Silicon Solar Panels Can Theoretically Reach 50% Light Capture
“They can now make solar panels with new perovskite layers on top of the silicon layers that can capture, you know, Theoretically up to 50% of the light, where now we're at, I don't know, maybe 22 or something, right?”
Roberts: Pakistan recently imported solar capacity equivalent to 40% of total load
“Pakistan went, like, I think it was like two years or three years, 40% of its total load now was It has imported solar panels equivalent to 40% of its total load.”
Musk: Earth can be completely powered by solar and batteries
“You can completely power Earth with solar panels and batteries and there's no shortage of anything.”
Handmer: Solar panel costs fall 20% annually with production doubling every two years
“It's like forty-something percent per doubling of production, and currently production's doubling roughly every two years. So you could say 20% a year. That's the panel by itself.”
The laws of physics allow solar panels to become 10 times cheaper
“The limit of physics on how cheap a solar panel can be is, like, at least 10 times cheaper than it currently is.”
Gurley: China leads world in EVs and solar but faces overcapacity bankruptcies
“They are now facing problems, even though they're the world leader in EVs and the world leader in solar panels, where some of these companies need to go bankrupt, and a province may not want them to because of employment issues, right?”
Handmer: US Should Buy Subsidized Chinese Solar Panels Instead of Taxing Them
“I think if China, our geopolitical adversary is attempting to harm us by giving us solar panels subsidized at their taxpayer's expense we should do the textbook thing that you do when people are trying to do predatory dumping, which is buy as much of it as you…”
Cotton: China used state tactics to corner global green energy markets
“China uses all those tactics to corner the market on so-called green energy, whether it's solar cells, solar panels, electric vehicle batteries, They've used all the tricks of the trade that they perfected over the last several decades to corner the market in …”
Wilkinson: Robot lawnmowers achieve ROI payback within 6 to 12 months
“If you get solar panels, you're looking at like a 10 to 20 year payback, depending on where in the world you live. And a robot mower can pay itself off in like six to 12 months, pretty much, which is pretty crazy.”
TP Huang: Chinese EV charging stations integrate rooftop solar and battery storage
“One thing you find that's kind of interesting with all our charging station now is that they have their own solar panels on the top of the roof, and then they have their own energy storage systems along with it, so so that actually does help alleviate some of …”
Woolley: EV purchases often trigger home solar and DER adoption
“When you buy an EV, you often buy solar panels as well. Or you get other DERs that are associated with your home, because you start to become very aware about, like, the whole home and the ecosystem and how you're managing your energy.”
Webber: Solar panels are significantly more land-efficient than corn ethanol
“If you have an acre or whatever amount of land you have and is hit with photons, you can convert those photons into a useful form of energy, say electricity, with something like 20% efficiency. But if you convert it first into bioenergy, Corn for ethanol, then…”
Lacey: Solar panel and electricity costs fell 90% in a decade
“Now, to put that in perspective, the cost per watt of solar panels and the cost of generated solar electricity fell by 90% in a decade.”
Thomas: There is zero documented contamination of town water supplies by solar panels
“There's never been A single documented instance of solar panels that have contaminated a town's water supply compared to fossil fuels where that's actually a very common experience or has happened a number of times.”
Kimber: Scaling hydrogen electrolyzers does not require radical scientific breakthroughs
“And so electrolyzers, for instance, while they're off, they're very clearly some great tech out there and there may be some breakthrough tech out there, it's not required, right? You can take technology that has been around for quite a while and with some incr…”
Pierpoint: California grid hosts 1.2M solar panels and 1M EVs
“20 years ago, California had tens of thousands of grid-edge assets. Now, it has millions of them. This includes 1.2 million solar panels, providing an estimated 15% of California's electricity, and a million plug-in vehicles.”