Solar Breeder
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