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Relevant questions, but need more qualification
>>How does the cost per unit of energy output compare?
What do you mean by cost? If you mean TCO including all real production costs, initially (as in the first few years of production) it's probably pretty high, even compared to crystalline, although everyone has at least gone to amorphous; but considering polymer PVs are so flexible and tough and lend themselves so easily and well to continuous (roll) sheet production, the production costs will quickly plummet. Look what's happened to LCD's in the past 5 years, and the process tech requirements are much more stringent as they haven't quite got that down to the level of industrial inkjet printing yet, and the PVs have.
This is pretty much the proof-of-product for an idea I developed as a design project 25 years ago, and I was only kludging up 4 design parameters that were in or had already been developed- flexible, transparent polymer films with controllable transparency and PV characteristics. And I wasn't exactly original in the concepts.
Be that as it may, it's wonderful to see stuff like this showing up finally. And of course the stuff is recyclable, it's a plastic film with some metallic and ceramic inclusions- it just might not be appropriate feedstock for future production of polymer PV, but I'd bet it would be just fine with a little special handling/processing.
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The relevant questions  Greenknight_z | 05/12/09
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