How the Next Big Solar Panel Tech is Already Here

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How the Next Big Solar Panel Tech is Already Here. Order yourself a LARQ Bottle PureVis 2 to go plastic free and enjoy ice cold water throughout the entire day. Solar panels are typically made with silicon as their semiconducting material. Cadmium telluride based photovoltaics (or CdTe for short) are the second-most common kind of panels after silicon PV, but when silicon still makes up the vast majority of the market, that doesn’t mean as much. So what on earth are cadmium telluride solar panels? And if they’re already in use today, why are they the solar panel industry’s best-kept secret?

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Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:45 - What is CdTe and Why Does it Matter?
05:12 - The History of CdTe and First Solar?
08:28 - Drawbacks and Challenges
11:52 - The Future of CdTe