梅杰在哥本哈根参加一个电视电话会议时表示,氯化镁源自海水,每克成本仅为0.001美元,远低于每克0.3美元的氯化镉。此外,它还能够消除处理氯化镉的挑战和费用——氯化镉是一种剧毒化合物,需要复杂的安全措施来保护生产工人,废弃的电池板也需要一道特殊的处理程序。
“So what we have done without any loss of efficiency is to replace expensive and highly toxic material with one that is completely benign and much lower cost in the process,” Major said. “This offers a great cost benefit for production of these kinds of solar cells and could help make a step change in the production of them.”
“所以,我们完全可以用一种完全良性而且成本低得多的物质来取代这种昂贵且带有剧毒的原料,而且无需承受任何效率损失,”梅杰说。“对于各种太阳能电池的生产商来说,这是一项巨大的成本收益,有可能推动生产过程发生巨变。”
The solar market is currently dominated by panels made with silicon. In a bid to make solar more competitive, there is growing interest from companies like First Solar in developing solar cells using cadmium telluride, which is more efficient and more flexible so it could be applied many more surfaces including windows.
由硅制成的面板目前在太阳能市场占据着主导地位。为了提升太阳能的竞争力,诸如第一太阳能公司(First Solar)这类企业对开发碲化镉制成的太阳能电池越来越感兴趣。这种材质更有效率,更加灵活,可应用于包括窗户在内的更多表面。
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