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I wish they mentioned more what companies are at the forefront of this. I am also curious to what extent innovations in solar panel tech are patented or if they are more open source and therefore treated like a commodity product.


Sunpower. Here's a list of panels sorted by efficiency: (just one I've been using while researching for a project)

https://www.energysage.com/solar-panels/?noidx=true&sort_by=...

I think they're the only on-the-market 22% efficient panel. This bloomberg article talking about 700W panels is inane, they just increased the panel size past the standard commercial 1mx2m.




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