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Originally Posted by me
Such a pity those panels are so expensive, or else...
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Originally Posted by IamIan
But , how expensive are they in the long run?
What is the Energy cost over the operational life time?
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That was just meant as a stepup to the cheap printed solar cells. 
Your comments are very true of course, but changing technology bringing the cost down to a fraction of current cost would blow everything else away. Electric energy would be almost free.
Bizarrely that same article crosslinks to an article about rechargeable flow batteries, bringing this subject back on topic.... 
Both reads are worthwhile imho.
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