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		lambdaone on June 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Will we ever get fusion power? That's certainly a hard limit for a cell with a single P-N junction. However, with a bit of ingenuity, we can do much better than that; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley%E2%80%93Queisser_limi...

ethn on July 1, 2024 [–]

Sure there are many novel solar technologies that subvert the SQ assumptions thereby avoiding the conclusion. However, the author of the parent post believes that existing technology today is sufficient.

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