Comments on: Triple-Junction Solar Cell Being Developed By US Navy Is To Break Through The 50% Conversion Efficiency Barrier http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/15/triple-junction-solar-cell-being-developed-by-us-navy-is-to-break-through-the-50-conversion-efficiency-barrier/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 10:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/15/triple-junction-solar-cell-being-developed-by-us-navy-is-to-break-through-the-50-conversion-efficiency-barrier/#comment-147337 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:59:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=47179#comment-147337 “Too many people’s lives depend on working in the power industry.”

What does that mean?

Right now ultra-high efficiency solar panels are very expensive and it only pays to install them as part of a concentrating solar system. That isn’t technology that has found its way to the private market. It’s not even clear that it’s cheap enough yet to be used at the utility level.

]]> By: Adam Smith http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/15/triple-junction-solar-cell-being-developed-by-us-navy-is-to-break-through-the-50-conversion-efficiency-barrier/#comment-147336 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:48:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=47179#comment-147336 Looks promising, just don’t expect to be able to buy these on your own. Too many people’s lives depend on working in the power industry. To prove my point, they even indicate that 44% is already possible in this article yet it does not exist on the commercial market.

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