Concept

The solar breeder concept is a regenerative industrial model in which renewable energy infrastructure—beginning with photovoltaics—is used to manufacture additional renewable energy infrastructure, creating a self-propagating energy system that progressively replaces fossil fuel dependence. Because modern photovoltaics repay the energy required for their manufacture within a small fraction of their operating lifetime, existing solar arrays can power the mining, refining, manufacturing, recycling, and deployment of future solar arrays, along with associated systems such as batteries, hydrogen production, electrified industry, and transportation. Over time, this creates an industrial civilization powered increasingly by ongoing solar energy flow rather than finite geological carbon stocks, enabling new human and industrial activity to operate on renewable energy while driving net carbon emissions toward near-zero.

Conclusion

About 8 years for solar breeder, starting with 1 MW of PV, to produce an end state of 20TW average (80TW total) of solar PV capacity.

https://chatgpt.com/share/69bfb1ad-3f18-8010-9518-7f69f0dd82f7

This is major for 10,000 villages today. Just got to get the first one off the ground.

However, the bottleneck turns out to be silver. Cannot scale to global PV if using silver - a strategic material. Must transition to copper front contact.

https://chatgpt.com/share/69f8d075-0764-83e8-9e2d-ebf3f158990c

A pilot plant would cost $20M or so, and 100MW production would cost $100M.

https://chatgpt.com/share/69f8d075-0764-83e8-9e2d-ebf3f158990c

In production, capex is $1/W/year.

OSE an authentically get into copper plating process dev - https://chatgpt.com/share/69f8d075-0764-83e8-9e2d-ebf3f158990c