131
Perovskite has been a magic "any day now" tech that never seems to materialize. This time will be different, right?
"We'll have the durability and cost solved in two years" has been in news about this for what? Five to ten years now?
That's not to say it won't get there, but I don't know enough to be able to tell the difference, honestly. You'd think half your appliances would be coated on this stuff by now, even if it's a bit more expensive. At least specialty applications would suggest some industrial readiness.
Ever magic tech that became widespread reality had this phase. They probably said the same about color tv.
Definitely OLED
And every magic tech that didn't become widespread had this phase.
What's your point?
Complicated technologies take time to become viable to be manufactured at scale and hit the market. This is normal, not a sign of impossibility.
I see the comment above under every single new tech advance post. It's meaningless imo.
I read that Perovskite is actually that amazing and it works the way it should (highly efficient in converting sunlight to electricity) but it's not resilient against the elements, mostly air and water combined.
So if they find a way to protect the cells without altering their properties too much it will be a game changer.
You'd have to be thick to believe in this thin miracle
I don’t think that just because they made one of these China will now suddenly start trembling. Get a robust supply chain and production set up at competitive prices and then we’ll talk. Until then people will keep buying from China.
"As renewable energy becomes a geopolitical tool"
What the fuck?
China exports sooooo much, if they even threaten to stop providing panels (or batterries), a lot of the west won't be able to continue electrifying. They know. We know. Thus political tool.
Energy in general is a huge geopolitical tool, see what happened with the Russian gas recently, most of the US military interventions in middle east are related to oil, France interference in Africa to secure uranium mining ...
Renewable energy is just another energy, the advantage of renewable energy is that the energy source is kinda well distributed around the world.
Aren't all traded commodities a geopolitical tool to some degree? This is why sanctions work.
Isn't iodine like... Extremely, absurdly common in ocean water?
🎼 We eat so many shrimp, I got iodine poisoning 🎶
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2024
131 points (95.2% liked)
World News
39013 readers
862 users here now
A community for discussing events around the World
Rules:
-
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
-
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
-
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed. Sources that have a Low or Very Low factual reporting rating or MBFC Credibility Rating may be removed.
-
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
-
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF 10/19
-
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
-
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
-
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
Lemmy World Partners
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
Recommendations
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS