the lead will be perfectly safe until someone crushes them up into a bunch of powder with a front loader, and then dumps in the nearest unsealed landfill
also lead mining/production is not waste free in of itself
Theyre lead salts. I guarantee that some of it is going to leech into the environment. And at some point theyre going to need to be manufactured in the first place and recycled/disposed of
This is a combination of two different cells not one material
Currently most perovskites are based on Lead salts. So theyre cheap to manufacture but have obvious environmental issues
As long as they don’t leak lead, I don’t really see the problem.
the lead will be perfectly safe until someone crushes them up into a bunch of powder with a front loader, and then dumps in the nearest unsealed landfill
also lead mining/production is not waste free in of itself
Theyre lead salts. I guarantee that some of it is going to leech into the environment. And at some point theyre going to need to be manufactured in the first place and recycled/disposed of
The companies that make these need to provide free recycling for every panel they sell.
It’s also a concern for the people making the panels.
If they have better specific power, I image they’d still be very useful for spacecraft.