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Scientists develop mega-thin solar cells that could be shockingly easy to produce: ‘As rapid as printing a newspaper’ (finance.yahoo.com)

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Scientists develop mega-thin solar cells that could be shockingly easy to produce: ‘As rapid as printing a newspaper’::These cells could be laminated onto various kinds of surfaces, such as the sails of a boat to provide power while at sea.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I mean, even if it's easy to do, that doesn't mean a manufacturing process is easy to ramp up. You need equipment to produce it, and people to do it. Logistics of that isn't like just turning on/off a light switch.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Some people have never tried getting a product to market before, and it shows.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would wager most of us haven't.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't care what you say the am/fm butt plug was going to be revolutionary!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

At that point, you can just call it bm radio

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

Without headlines, no investors. Without investors, no equipment. Without equipment, no product. Headlines like these drive investment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I love shows like How It's Made, you get to see the Rube Goldbergian systems that produce stuff we take for granted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Yes, exactly. My point is that I'm tired of these bullshit headlines that are implying that we have some great breakthrough; unless the discovery also accounts for everything you listed, it's not a breakthrough and we, the public, don't need to hear about it just so that a newspaper can sell clicks and ruin trust in science.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You seem to be conflating breakthrough with manufacturing capacity

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No, I'm just not referring to a slightly novel manufacturing process that will probably lead nowhere as a "breakthrough".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Some of us like learning about science and technology, if you only want to know about products then watch adverts.

The average person understands the difference between 'will' and 'could'