Top 5 Solar Energy Advances Using Perovskites

[@UndecidedMF]

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[@MichaelMantion]

"lead is heavy and toxic". So toxic that we use them as wheel waits and fishing sinkers. I'm not saying lead is good, but it is fairly common in nature at this point.

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[@AlbertManiscalco]

im from Rochester too! (Penfield and Pittsford Mendon)

[@phil2268]

I know Rochester because I went to RIT 1979-83. I'm back in Boston (Peabody). KZbinr Smarteveryday did a series on Kodak making film. Very fascinating.

[@Nobe_Oddy]

bro you confuzzled the HECK out if my @ 13:06 - "spin coated and SLIE-DOT coated" ???? a bit Lysdexic we are?? Te Moo!! ... errr Me Too!!! - I hear you say 'slie-dot' and because I'm dyslexic I reversed the first syllables automatically and got 'die-slot' which made more sense... lol so I had to go back and listen again... then when you put 'slot-die' I realized you DOUBLE-LYSDEXIC'ED US!!! LOL (I know this is confusing... everyday is for me LOL) - Just wanted to TRY to give you a chuckle... hope it worked :)

[@LambertBricks]

I discovered this channel a few years ago while researching for my science fair project, on making my own solar cells. It’s pretty cool to see the new breakthroughs on the things that I researched about, using free articles online.

[@NeerajKumar-is2oh]

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[@MrDontcareify]

As someone who works in the solar industry, perovskites are very interesting (as is graphene conductors). Anything that may increase the efficiency of solar panels and their electricity generation is going to be good for the renewable future. I wonder if you’ve ever looked into inverter efficiency because converting DC to usable AC power (and in a safe way) is also a hurdle for solar electricity. Thanks for another great video.

[@Mike__B]

Graphene still being touted as the "super material" where it's only "a decade or two away" (every year) from being mainstream?

[@thomasbonse]

@@Mike__B That still puts it 10 years faster than cold fusion. 😉

[@KMCA779]

@@thomasbonse why do you have to be so hard on cold fusion. It's trying really hard. Just another 30 years and they might have it. If you don't believe me, ask me again in 30 years and I'll give you the same answer.

[@ashamahee]

@@Mike__B they are making massive steps forwards in relation to graphene, the production costs have been cut drastically and they can now manufacture it in large quantities at decent prices. So now the next step is graphene sheets but graphene in small portions are already being used in the UK in road construction with asphalt and concrete and seems to be showing very impressive results but I suppose it still needs to pass the test of time.

[@extragoode]

What do you want to look into regarding inverter efficiency? Microinverters are commonly 90% efficient and modern high frequency string inverters that are currently on the market are 95%+ efficient. There's no point in chasing the last 1 or 2% possible of efficiency since it'd likely make products more complicated, expensive, and/or shorter lived.

[@jerrymacvaldosta]

Love your stuff! So hard to be scientific and still hold the attention of the rest of us. Very informational and interesting. Keep up the good stuff while dummying it down without loosing either us or the information.

[@thegurw1994]

​@@he8535 you should always check sources for KZbinrs, especially if they're usually reliable.

[@destitute8493]

2:44 _"They created a perovskite film with a plasmonic substrate made of hyperbolic metamaterial and characterized it with transition dipole orientation."_ Language like that is opaque for most of us. I appreciate this channel demystifying it.

[@sparkysho-ze7nm]

Well said so true

[@peterdaenor7612]

It's always a pleasure to learn about new discoveries with this YT channel. Thanks for all the quality content !

[@Sekir80]

Hm, i like your profile picture

[@UndecidedMF]

Thanks for watching!

[@Bigphish5280]

I was thinking about perovskite technology a few months ago wondering where the technology is today. Thank you for the update!

[@craigburns9377]

👊 for the algorithm. Love listening to your videos Matt

[@ashj_2088]

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[@UndecidedMF]

Appreciate it!

[@AppliedCryogenics]

Great episode. I appreciate the breadth of your research, and how you present a topic with integrity rather than trafficking solely in hype and clicks. I mean, you clearly put in the work, and it shows. Cheers!

[@ricoma6037]

Thank you for your fantastic work that continues to keep us layman informed of the current and future advances! 😀

[@AerialWaviator]

Great content Matt. Look forward to seeing you revisit this topic in 2-4 years to see how innovation and commercialization have progressed.

[@icare7151]

With over 38 years of advanced material reinforcement and chemical engineering experience, I have done advanced Perovskite application development for solar panels, etc. Perovskite stabilization is key for application longevity performance. Sitting on various ASTM (I) committees over the decades, I have co-authored many testing and measurement standards, which need to be agreed upon for all new technologies. Taking the new technology mentioned into practical applications is my specialty.

[@MikeDS49]

Maybe an interview with Matt is in order :)

[@UndecidedMF]

Wow! Thanks for sharing.

[@TheRussellStover]

You really have the best job. I'm sure these videos take a lot of time to research. Good job looking at and researching all of the things in your videos and explaining them to us in a way we can understand.

[@patpliley5535]

Thank you for your time and intelligence. You lay out the information very good, you don't put your spin on it to sway there view of the facts. I would like to thank you and will pass your page on to others

[@CaedmonOS]

I'm super excited for this because I'm looking to put solar panels on top of a bus and in that case size matters way more than lifespan because I don't have very much room so having more efficient solar panels even if they don't last quite as long is acceptable especially if they're cheaper

[@bitkrusher5948]

And when the supply chain is screwed so are you ....life span matters .....what do you see the world looking like in 5 years....or 10 ?

[@Aureonw]

@@bitkrusher5948 Either better solar pannels or the world is gone, either way a good investment.

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Personally, the line was crossed with all the bs they say VPN do. All the ads youtubers bake in are pretty terrible. I give them no credit I just ignore it as them trying to have a career on the site. This channel is just a tech news show.

[@UndecidedMF]

2FA was huge step forward. There are phishing and hacking methods that completely bypass 2FA. Just look at the Linus Tech Tips hack that just happened a month or two ago. Stealing someone's browser cookies/session data can allow someone right into your account. If the 2FA is using a cellphone number to text you a code, that's also hackable by cloning your cellphone number and receiving the code (it's also happened in the wild). 2FA isn't bulletproof.

[@societenaturelle9005]

Ur Videos r a LIFELINE of info .. Not Enough to just say THANKYOU 🙏🏻

[@winnie-the-poohahaha4428]

I can never be a sleeper agent watching your videos. I always open my eyes and watch what your talking about and miss out on sleep. Your videos are pre bed time after work

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I really appreciate this video. For those of us who don’t live down at or near Boca Chica, we count on those that do to give us the insight to what’s going on & the vibe. We get a lot of launch site or build site videos, but rarely ever get videos covering the village. I would also love it if someone would go around and interview residence that live in Brownsville, SPI, & Port Isabel and talk about how they feel about what’s happening down there. You know, give us the “Vibe” on what they think about how SpaceX is affecting the local region. Thanks Jessica, keep up your great work

[@JohnLee-im7iu]

Love this video. You are quite informed and present the information well. Thank you. Cutting edge science is my favorite thing.

[@Nerdificationing]

Even normal PVs - 5yrs ago they were 280W, 3yrs ago 390W, now some home panels have 475W like the Jinko Tiger with higher efficiency

[@unvergebeneid]

I think the "diffusion-stability-hysterisis nexus" from their actual paper title sounds like _way_ better Star Trek techno babble than "ionic desire path" 😊

[@pierregravel-primeau702]

I really love that you are becoming a bit self aware!

[@williamnarvaezjr5242]

I’ve been watching you for years. Love how you describe the information your presenting. You took something I really wasn’t interested in and drew me in. Thank you. Sleeper agent activated. 😂 10:03

[@johnburn8031]

Thank you for sharing this information 🙋🏻‍♂️

[@Daegis88]

Thanks! Would be interested in more discussions between you and the technical leads at the various commercial companies to learn more about their upcoming products. Any mention of life time for the stuff coming out in 2023/2024?

[@MaxGoddur]

LOL was getting ready to bypass your video only because I was thinking exactly what your intro video stated 10-15 years away. It was great to hear you say that was not so.

[@robinstevenson6690]

Matt, thanks for being one of the few websites on the internet to lift our spirits with hope for the future!

[@tgdomnemo5052]

... it's so great to hear about, and even kinda understand, all the progress that is being made in the field of renewables ... Thank You, Matt 🙏🏼👍🏼🖖🏻

[@guydauderman1645]

Great job following up on the most current technologies for solar production. Hope you continue to update us on the comercial availability of perovskite panels.

[@milohobo9186]

I could see these used more here in Louisiana. Nothing is expected to survive long here anyways because of hurricanes and even the lead risk isn't a factor because of our abysmal environmental record. I am glad to see there is progress here. I want to have solar eventually and this looks like it is worth the wait.

[@brankelly1921]

I recently got into solar and this was super educating. Thanks!

[@garrygballard8914]

“O” boy Matt, finally, you may remember I got you to report on Perovskite years ago. It’s taken long enough. It’s ok, I needed time to learn to say it correctly. Thank you for that. Nice to see you again. How’s the new house ? Now maybe I can soon start designing bldgs with solar in the bldg structure. 👍✌️

[@Seventhviper]

What I really want (need?) to know is how the economics play out. If we can get better efficiency for less then the payback period improves. Currently in the UK it would take 12-15 years to payback a residential solar installation any improvement on that would make them a lot more attractive to any user.

[@chlistens7742]

Nice seeing update videos. I like the fact that you do not pretend every NEW thing is revolutionary breakthrough that will shatter the industry

[@UndecidedMF]

Thanks for the comment. Not every advance is going to be a winner, but it's worth keeping an eye on everything that's happening. There's a lot of interesting work out there.

[@Seafariireland]

So good of you to shine some light on this welcome news!!!

[@jeanpaulchristian3282]

Shine some fart

[@kathleentucker1238]

Loving this!!! Thanks Matt. Can't wait to see more!

[@UndecidedMF]

Thanks, Kathleen.

[@danielmadar9938]

Thank you. At last, the light at the end of the perovskite panel...

[@cmuller1441]

1000 hours to 95%. It's just 4 months (8h/day). Silicon based panels keep that for 10 years and the best ones for 20. So you're still a 30* factor behind. The problem is also the labor to change panels. You have to be really really cheaper if your lifespan is shorter or the cost to do the change more often will absorb that gain.

[@MrCaiobrz]

They didn't have time to test more yet, they only concluded that is still holding 95% in 1000 hours, but they will need months more to check if it can, for instance, reach 10k hours over lets say 90% and so on. Its a new tech, you can't expect them to have it tested for decades even on advanced wear facilities

[@cmuller1441]

@@MrCaiobrz You expect linear or less degradation? But it could be even worse. It could snowball and be exponentially bad... Anyway, even with the most optimistic case, it's still an order of magnitude behind silicon. Concerning the advertised value, it's not because they didn't have the time, it's because they want to give a good number that can be easily remembered. 95% and 1000h looks good for the average Joe but it's actually not much.

[@jeanpaulchristian3282]

Degradation slows as the defective elements of the panels become suspended, but the integrity for most of the structure will still function

[@PurpleLogicYT]

Project "Pepperoni", was originally called project: "Plfepop-stmoIs", which changed to be more memorable.

[@beautifulgirl219]

The price of residential solar in the United States needs to come down by a factor of 10.

[@malcolmrose3361]

The thing in your video that astonished me is that there is no international standards for measuring performance (if I understood you correctly) - I worked for a year or so at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Controls (NIBSC) in the UK and a major part of their job was agreeing (at the time with the US CDC) on international standards for diseases. They also produced samples of international standard quality diseases and exported them to researchers around the world. The purpose being that if Professor Singh in Bombay was working on a Hepatitis A treatment he could publish his work and it's efficacy could be directly compared with the results achieved by Professor Smith at Harvard, or Schulz at Heidelberg - and be easily replicated by other scientists verifying Singh's research. I mean we've only been looking at PV systems since the 60's - you'd have thought someone could agree on something by now.

[@InimitaPaul]

I reupped my panels last year, Perovskite’s should be ready for market by the next time I need to reup.

[@GeorgeNikolovski]

Wow, i had no idea you are also from Rochester. Beyond impressed and proud of the researchers at UofR

[@ralphnewton7768]

Great videos. Keeping it simple, on a technical subject. 👍

[@G.Giorgio]

Love the societal impact segment at the end

[@mnhtnman]

Good morning! I have learned a lot from your contents. I thank you!!!

[@svOcelot]

Thanks for this, Matt. We live on our boat, so we depend on our solar panels, but we need pretty robust ones. These developments are certainly interesting, & I'll be keeping my eye on the industry. But besides needing reliability, I have a lot invested in controllers & such. I get the feeling we're still 10 years out here...

[@charles64028]

I miss the old discovery channel shows. But you are filling that void. So I honestly do thank you and ask you to please don’t stop making them. I do ask one thing. Lead, is detrimental to the environment you say. But the environment is what created lead. It’s a organic element on the periodic table. Just don’t eat it. And I use organic from the much older version of the Websters dictionary. Like 1950’s Meaning from the Earth, I truly thank you again and your videos are very educational and factual and I like that.

[@toddjasper1]

I was uneasy when my doctor said she would have to start checking my perovskite after I turn 40 but I feel better about it after watching this video

[@chrisva505]

Should- might- maybe. I would be delighted when you release a video stating facts relating to real ,scalable, and most importantly commercially avaliable improvements .

[@sickjohnson]

Another good one Matt, the numbers with efficiency seem to be a bit over the top with respect to 11:48 ? Can't wait for an update on your new house Matt.

[@wingsounds13]

You, like many, seem to be obsessed with perovskites. Yes, cheaper is a very good thing, and their efficiency is good too. Lifespan MUST be addressed before they can compete with silicon. Still... my personal favorite PV concept is the rectenna. These seem to have a long lifespan and potential for efficiency that other PV technologies can't even dream about. As with all technologies, the limiting factors are: first, making it work and second, manufacturing. An update on today's state of the art of the rectenna would be nice.

[@Off-Grid]

We're Off-Grid on 15.3kw and the panels really aren't the issue although the more efficient the better. It's the batteries that need a cleaner, cheaper, and renewable solution.

[@deang5622]

Efficiency is an issue because that determines the cents per watt. Increasing the efficiency benefits both off grid as well as on grid users. In the off-grid use case it means the total monetary outlay is lower. In the on-grid case, it can make the difference in the economics of whether to install a PV system or not.

[@punditgi]

Watching this channel is a no brainer decision! 😊

[@francoaccifonte2395]

this is the day I finally clicked that subscribe button. I love your videos Matt

[@karanprajapati7709]

This content is really very deep...i did 2 courses but i never get this type of content...please also make videos on current research opportunities and on some conpanies...it will help student to grab some opportunity

[@sgtrock66]

Good show !! I love your explanations are simple good and understandable !!!!

[@shawncirignano4876]

For the most part, I've enjoyed watching your videos. However, one of the biggest issues with the corporate world is their love of the all mighty dollar. It has slowed down advancements more than anything else.

[@Eireternal]

Thanks for dropping the knowledge! Are there any public companies that are focusing on using Perovskites? Would love to research and invest.

[@icare7151]

Sitting on various ASTM (I) committees over the decades, I have co-authored many testing and measurement standards.

[@barneyross3405]

Another very informative video. Love the succinct quality.

[@michaelvadney5803]

Fantastic video! Love your explanation, thank you.

[@motrebal]

Thanks, Matt it gives me a bit of hope for the future, keep the positives coming. Cheers T

[@megmagruder7124]

As always interesting. Wondering what I should install on the RV.

[@project_Triangle]

Always love your content

[@JohnVance]

Always a good day when we get a new video on The Optimism Channel ^_^

[@paulcrusse7800]

Thank you for all of your hard work.

[@Phil_AKA_ThundyUK]

Great stuff. Energy technology is racing along now.

[@valerieewing3306]

Fascinating research and so well explained. Thanks for the really interesting presentation - learnt alot.

[@earldominic3467]

I think the current panels are already very cheap and efficient as it is, but the energy storage still is the major issue.

[@cristibaluta]

They are not, if you want to take a portable panel in your wilderness trip it's almost useless.

[@deang5622]

Solar panels with 22% efficiency at converting light into electricity are NOT efficient. 78 of the sunlight is not converted into electricity The amount of inefficiency is far greater than the efficiency. Ergo, it is inefficient.

[@suryakisku3895]

cheap? depends on what type and quality u buy but definitely not efficient

[@earldominic3467]

@@suryakisku3895 solar panels are actually the cheapest thing in the solar power system. during noon time, I even have to cover the panels to avoid excessive heat and extra power to avoid overcharging my off-grid system. my solar panels are only about $20 per 100 watts.

[@erfquake1]

Excellent excellent excellent video, thank you! I wish there were some funding program to get these five universities/companies to start integrating their research with each other now, in order to optimize rollout later. We're down to the environmental wire here.

[@johnisdoe]

I actually read a paper on this a while ago. I hope that the adoption perovskites isn't hampered by greed.

[@leadlearner6391]

it is the same with Graphene; discovered in 2004; was told it's a revolution material! Where is it used? Will it ever be used? Thanks for another great informative video

[@TheHighHost]

Great video, i love the good information, but you totally forgot CIGS techonology. My bet is that CIGS will be the future within the next 1-7 years as they get cheaper to produce.

[@BerryvanHorrik]

There was also Nanopac 10 years ago who produced a solar-film that is used on the Petronas Towers in Malaysia. They were on the stock exchange in New York listed. That was 10 years ago. Didn’t hear from them anymore.

[@manuelhernandez4306]

Hi Matt, Oxford PV has been announcing commercially available perovskite PV by 2020, then 2021, 2022,… Any chance of a video showing what keeps delaying Oxford PV and commercial manufacturing of perovskite PV over the last 3+ years?

[@DwainDwight]

lifespan & efficiency the key. we are 5+ years away from being able to buy anything with any real advancement over todays best panels.

[@irlsolidspace]

Another amazing video, amazingly well presented and backed by proper science clearly explained. Thanks

[@DevinAdint]

I thought the other advantage to Perovskite cell was that they could extract energy from multiple em frequencies including UV light that cuts through clouds allowing for electric generation even on cloudy days.

[@ragnaranfinsen1305]

Great video. I think the most important thing is the balance between longevity and effect per square meter/feet. Everyone talks about more powerful solar panels, but mostly they are just bigger. I do like however, that new technologies such as the one talked about in this video will potentially increase the effect per square meter/feet. Keep up the good work Matt. :)

[@snorttroll4379]

Power. Effect is power. Unless you mean efficiency, effektivitet

[@phetinthasanh7083]

Thank you for the breakdown and explanation 🙏

[@frankgarcia8378]

This is a good video, but you're still missing the main reason that perovskites are being researched: depending on the materials used, they can have a variable band gap. The theoretical maximum efficiency of any single band gap cell is ~33%, but as the number of junctions approaches infinity, the theoretical maximum efficiency rises to ~87% (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-junction_solar_cell). This is (one reason) why the early cells are all perovskite on silicon; More junctions, more efficiency.

[@davocc2405]

@Matt - thanks an awful lot for this one, this is exceptional news. I'd be curious to know how these things go in space too... As for terrestrial use - I'd love to see this type of thing implemented more frequently in suburbia especially now we have more people working from home (in the UK something like 50% or more of government workers are WFH'ing apparently). In hotter and sunnier areas where aircon will be used - this is going to be essential, especially for grid distribution and load management.

[@risingdough8078]

Hmmm. The first 4 advances still look like they're in the research stage, or 5 years away from commercialization (and is often the case, 5 years from now, the prediction will be "5 years away"). Furthermore, each seem to address specific issues with perovskites, but don't look like they can be combined to address all issues. For number 5, Matt addresses the elephant in the room, which is how long before anything shows up on the market. But there is no indication of what compromises these first generation products will be making (performance, cost, toxic production methods, etc.), or whether the target markets will be broad or niche. To progress from research to engineering to mass production is incredibly complex and challenging. It makes you appreciate successes in technology even more.

[@alexsoupir]

Is it on the market? Mentioned possible to be buyable by the end of 2023. Would be cool.

[@storminmormin14]

Just some input as to why the liquid process might be difficult to scale. Thin films of liquid are typically applied to a surface through use of a spin coater. They spin at incredibly high speed and so only the liquid close to the surface can actually stay on the wafer. This means that for an 8” wafer it’s not that big of a deal. But a three foot solar panel that’s a ton of centripetal acceleration for the material to cope with.

[@husseinmosman4820]

No no. The production is done with single wafers and dried and then the contacts added and the module assembled. the process just becomes faster when a slot dye coater is used butthe efficiency drops alittle.

[@oldschool31]

in the future could you link to the articles or abstracts, plz. Great info thanks!

[@BfromMtz]

Thanks for the info Primo!

[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

Exciting!

[@psylentrage]

Sometimes efficiency is approached from the wrong side. Instead of wasting time to make solar cells more efficient, how about we make the manufacturing and recyclablity more efficient and greener? You know? Perfect first what we have? This has been in R & D already for so long, and what do we have? Silver and lead. More mining and toxicity. Lovely. Bravo...

[@EliotHochberg]

Watching your videos, I find myself thinking about whether or not any of these companies can be invested in. As a result, I’m thinking of two things that would be super cool if you can include them. First, if a company is publicly traded, it would be nice if you put in the Chiron, the company, stock symbol and trading platform, for example, NYSE, and then the stock symbol. The other thing you could do either in addition to, or instead, is have a list of all the companies that you do stories on along with links to their company profiles. Just a thought, and a reminder that investing in companies can be one way to encourage them to succeed. It also gives us an opportunity. If they’re probably traded to influence the choices, they make both in the products that they choose to make, but also in their labor practices and executive governance. That can have an impact on how Green and how responsible these companies are.

[@gonzalomorenoandonaegui2052]

Could you make a video about the current highest efficiency solar cells like multijunction cells and also about promising high efficiency PV cells chemistries, like gallium arsenide, graphene multijunction, etc ?

[@lukaszbiniecki8624]

Hi Matt, has there been any information about durability of any of the perovskites? For how many days can they maintain at least 70% of their original efficiency?

[@williamclayton9566]

It's about 3/4 the through the video.

[@bloepje]

There is also another issue that high PEC solves: Imagine 20% PEC, well, that means basically almost 80% is absorbed and converted to heat. The higher the PEC, the less overheating problems. Just guessing though... But that might also change the way you cool the panels. As cool panels are more efficient.

[@alainarchambault2331]

Depends on the cost versus silicon. Most Nomad had managed quite well with silicon cells, and we can't ultimately tell there lifespan until real world conditions have tested them.

[@Florkl]

The “unbreakable iron triangle” is broken all the time by new technologies because it only is intended to evaluate acquisition options with current technologies.

[@martyb3783]

Very interesting. Much food for thought.

[@eMJeyCGN]

You've missed mentioning Saule Technologies that opened its manufacturing plant in 2021.

[@abramzacharias1]

I'm glad to hear they're improving solar cells. Maybe 1 day we can use solar power to travel

[@by9917]

Rochester is my home town too, but that was back before sunlight which was just after dirt.