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[deleted] t1_iqwipm1 wrote

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Thatingles t1_iqwjmzh wrote

That's not entirely fair, there are perovskite PV available, they are just pricier than regular cells. It's unclear if that gap can be breached but they have been commercialised to some degree.

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Oshino_Meme t1_iqwr9nu wrote

They are making serious progress on the stability of perovskites cells though. They still don’t last very long at all, and I don’t think we’ll hit a year+ lifetime too soon, but they’ve made orders of magnitude increases already

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joj1205 t1_iqx8cpx wrote

There's one company in the UK. But I've been watching it for years.

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joj1205 t1_iqx87wk wrote

It gets out the lab. Just decays into a toxic nightmare and ends up Killing us all

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epSos-DE t1_iqycm2f wrote

graphene is out of the lab as meterial reinforecement and for capacitors.

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Speedking2281 t1_iqxnadb wrote

This made me laugh, and I completely agree. I would love to know if there are real world applications in 15 years for these two materials. I hope/assume there will be, but I swear it's been more than a decade of hearing about graphene is about to revolutionize...all sorts of things.

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CluelessSage t1_iqz84t8 wrote

Graphene production is actually progressing at an impressive rate. Same with spider silk protein and polymers.

We are already making these materials by the metric ton this year. By 2025 production levels should be in the 100s of 1000s of tonnes.

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dustofdeath t1_ir0kdvi wrote

Graphene is used in non-hyped low-tech industries already.

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