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Originally Posted by AustinChief
That's hard to say. It can vary by A LOT from panel to panel. But 20% is a good guess for the very very very best shiny new commercial grade panels. And we are talking super high end crazy expensive stuff to get to 20%. Your average home panel is lucky to hit 16%.
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This suggests the kind of exponential growth akin to Moore's Law:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graph...daily-chart-19
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that there is a theoretical limit to the efficiency of solar cells.
Now, if they are 20% efficient, does that mean that they are absorbing 20% of the incandescent energy from the sun? If so, how large of a panel would I need for a watt of energy?
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