Quote from: kolbacict on January 03, 2022, 04:10:57 AM
Now are we going to expect gold to rise in price?
Yes, by exactly 0.44 cents per gram to keep the cost of electricity balanced.
Quote from: kolbacict on January 03, 2022, 04:10:57 AM
Now are we going to expect gold to rise in price?
link to the material in question:
https://news.stanford.edu/2021/12/14/new-materials-deliver-ultrathin-solar-panel/ (https://news.stanford.edu/2021/12/14/new-materials-deliver-ultrathin-solar-panel/)
components of a photosensitive foil:-TMD
tungsten diselenide
-and contacts of gold
-spanned by a layer of conducting graphene
TMD is Transition-metal dichalcogenide and is only 6.5 Å thick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_metal_dichalcogenide_monolayers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_metal_dichalcogenide_monolayers)
tungsten diselenide is:
chem- Se=W=Se (Se symbol of selenium)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten_diselenide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten_diselenide)
where
W symbol is Wolfram known also as Tungsten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten)
Thickness of the gold contact is expected to be in ~ tens of nm.
One gram of gold can be stretched any where between 2.99 to 3 km approx.=2.1 mile.https://www.quora.com/How-many-km-a-1gm-of-gold-can-be-stretched (https://www.quora.com/How-many-km-a-1gm-of-gold-can-be-stretched)
-so it is unlikely that gold will grow in price because of that
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But the energy density or energy per unit is not known to me yet.
Wesley