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Solar technology advances are part of a longer-term shift toward cheaper renewable energy, which could lower operational costs for crypto mining and reduce ESG-related pressure on the sector. The fact that this breakthrough addresses a key scaling bottleneck in perovskite tandem cells suggests that solar efficiency gains could accelerate over the next few years, potentially altering the energy mix for industrial users, including miners.

Researchers developed a vaporization approach for perovskite semiconductors that allows lower-temperature processing of tandem solar cells, addressing a scaling challenge.