High-Powered Solar Cells Are Poised to Replace Batteries (opens in new tab)

(bloomberg.com)

11 pointsimichael11mo ago6 comments

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Paywall. Clickbait title. Checks out.

Referring to batteries in low power devices like keyboards and calculators… so just like what’s been on the market for 3 decades?

metalman11mo ago

longer,light meters for film cameras back to the 1950's? further back

K0balt11mo ago

I thought usually those light meters used cadmium sulphide photocells? I don’t think they actually produced enough power to be useful in that way? Do they even have a photovoltaic effect? I always thought of them as photo resistive.

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K0balt11mo ago

Paywall. Clickbait title. Checks out.

Referring to batteries in low power devices like keyboards and calculators… so just like what’s been on the market for 3 decades?

metalman11mo ago

longer,light meters for film cameras back to the 1950's? further back

K0balt11mo ago

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