There might be another possibility of producing solar panels - from Cadmium
Cadmium Advantages in Solar Panels
Silikon based solar panels are facing price growth, so alternative photovoltaic technologies can step into the competition. There is Cadmium, which has several advantages over traditional silicon technology.
Those advantages are:
- The electricity comes from properties of two types of cadmium molecules, cadmium sulfide and cadmium telluride. This means a simple mixture of molecules achieves the required properties, simplifying manufacturing compared to the multi-step process of joining two different types of doped silicon in a silicon solar panel.
- Cadmium telluride absorbs sunlight at close to the ideal wavelength, capturing energy at shorter wavelengths than is possible with silicon panels
- Cadmium is abundant, produced as a by-product of other important industrial metals such as zinc.
Well, there are the disadvantages as well:
- Cadmium telluride solar panels currently achieve an efficiency of 10.6%
- Environmental issues of Cadmium….
Source: Treehugger
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definitely in this world of energy crisis, we have to look for alternate channels of energy procurement which are more reliable, continous, renwable and non polluting, I think Solar Energy is one of the those sources which can for pretty long time fullfill our energy requirements and that too anywhere in the universe.
Photovoltism is one of the most chanted technology now days.. every other Oil Company are focusing on this alternate and trying too make it more feasible.
Solar Cells based on Cadmium Sulfide and Cadmium Telluride offers a good remedy for the shortcoming of Sillicon based technology. Due to their adundant occurance in nature and limited application in other industry Cadmium based these salts become one of the favoured and natural choices for Photovoltism. Recently Rise Chemical Industries with its dedicated team for R&D in Cadmium sulfide and Cadmium Telluride based PhotoVoltism technology has achieved some milestones in this field and being pioneer in the stream is on the way of becoming single platform offering different solutions for Cadmium Based technology for PhotoVoltism.