Comment by photochemsyn

Much better article here.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/02/17/organic-inorganic-per...

This system appears based on tin, not lead, so that's a plus for not generating as much toxic waste. However the lifetime report - 10% efficieny loss over 1000 hour - is why people vastly prefer monocrystalline silicon cells, whose lifetime is easily 200X as long (more like 1000X, but other components of the PV module than the silicon will degrade more on the 200,000 hours timeline).

You'd have to replace these once a year or so to retain >90% of the initial power output, versus mono-Si which lasts for 25 years+.