Maybe I’ve been playing too much factorio, but if the main ingredient is silicon it seems like we should be easily able to turn out TW worth of solar panels every year.
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The main ingredient isn’t just “silicon” it’s something called polysilicon which is pretty much extremely purified silicon. The process to create polysilicon is quite expensive and energy consuming and is one of the main limiting factors to mass PV manufacture (among others).
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