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 primary cost of a solar panel is not in the raw materials. It’s in the processing of those into a finished product. The equipment to process everything and assemble a final solar panel is expensive. Scaling it up can reduce costs per panel but they’re still not super cheap.
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