Silver lining? Why an Australian startup is betting on a copper solar boom
Briefly

"SunDrive is hoping its copper-based solar cells will catapult from the pilot to the market stage in Australia and beyond through a planned joint venture with Trina."
"Copper is 1,000 times more abundant and 100 times cheaper per kilo than silver, Natalie Malligan, SunDrive's chief executive, says. It also has performance benefits so you can generate more electricity per cell."
"We're in a huge oversupply condition at the moment [but] it will settle because the market doubles every three years," Renate Egan, the head of the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics based at UNSW, says.
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