But also if this is an indication that more research effort is going into this because of breakthroughs, that’s a good thing. Double the efficiency a few more times and pretty soon it could be competitive in many uses.

Solar panels used to be horrible at efficiency. Now they’re pretty amazing and extremely competitive in the power generation market. It, similarly, took a few decades of these kinds of efficiency improvements to get there.

> Solar panels used to be horrible at efficiency. Now they’re pretty amazing and extremely competitive in the power generation market.

To be fair, in my understanding economies of scale kicked in _hard_ for solar, making it much cheaper to produce single panels, moreso than making each individual panel more efficient.