As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
The reality is, that Elon Musk could have his Mars City State by 2030 AD in the year of our Lord, and the world here, could be free of the burden of costly electrical energy, if Thorium Reactors were put into a Manhattan Project and President Trump focused on Perovskite, a Japanese science invention which is cheap to make, is completely efficient and available to lay over silicon solar cells.
What in the world is perovskite? The term “perovskite” refers to two substances: a calcium titanium oxide mineral composed of calcium titanate, and also the class of compounds that share the mineral’s unique crystal structure. The perovskites that hold such promising photovoltaic (PV), or solar energy-generating, properties are a group of human-made versions discovered in 2009 by Japanese scientist Tsutomu Miyasaka and colleagues. (Miyasaka was talked about in 2018 as a potential Nobel Prize recipient.) “These perovskites can absorb sunlight better than silicon,” says Stranks. “We can absorb almost all of the sunlight with a perovskite film that is at least a hundred times thinner than silicon.”
I am not going to invest any more time in this, as you can read and figure this out. This is the energy source for earth, and the energy source in space as it is light to transport.
We are not going to be able to stop using gasoline and diesel as horsepower requires their kind of generation, and that includes steam with coal as a cost effective energy source.
Scientists synthesize perovskites by mixing two inexpensive salts, lead halides and organic halides. This solution forms an ink, which can be applied in an ultrafine, uniform layer by using inkjet printing or spin coating. “The film deposited is very thin — around 500 nanometers or about 1/100th the thickness of a human hair — and it is enough to absorb a large fraction of the sunlight needed to generate electricity,” says Stranks.The upshot: A little perovskite can generate a lot of power. “The state of California requires 50 gigawatts of power, for example,” says Stranks, “and to make enough solar panels, you’d only need half an Olympic swimming pool’s worth of perovskite ink.”
So now you know what is out there.
Nuff Said
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