Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

And then they're also relatively inexpensive.

Some sort of transition like that will happen.

But I almost think it also doesn't matter.

Why?

Because

You can't get, at least without shocking new physics, which this is not, you're not going to get more than 100% efficiency.

In fact, there are physical reasons to think that the cap on electricity generation from solar PV is capped at materially less than 100%.

So there's a ceiling on how much we can capture anyway from solar PV.

It's not like we have orders of magnitude of headroom of improvements that we could achieve.

it's totally unlike say AI algorithms where we know just based on the scaling law curves that we could probably achieve orders of magnitude improvement in the efficiency of models.

So quite frankly, I have difficulty getting myself super motivated by incremental advances in solar PV chemistries and liquid phase.

It's just not that exciting.

Whereas if you look at some of these other stories, I think from an economic perspective, much more interesting, like blanketing the

the rooftops of all of South Korea or a substantial fraction of South Korea with solar PV.

That's pretty interesting.

DOE pushing micro reactors everywhere.

That's pretty interesting.

I would love to see micro reactors in Boston.

Right now we have a single one on Mass Ave between 77 Mass Ave and Central Square that relatively few people pay attention to.

I'd love to see micro reactors everywhere.