Oct 19, 2026 · 23 min · 15 segments
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Zero interest loans for heat pumps and solar panels set to launch within weeks.

That's what I think, because normally I'm against the idea of a zero-interest loan, because all it does is, like, get yourself in hock, and then we'll wait until things change.

And then they'll change the interest rate, and then, ho-ho, right up the wazoo.

But at some point, we've got really good engines in the same way that they're doing this thing with the perovskite layers.

But it's not just having silicon that has that band gap, which is easily reachable, but it means you waste a lot of energy.

Or you have a big band gap that captures a lot of energy, but most photons aren't strong enough.

because energy is proportional to the frequency, so are the right color effectively to make it do the band gap.

So actually now you can capture all these different layers of energy from different photons.

The problem is I did see that at the moment – it was Plugin Solar I was doing some research on.

These things should pay for themselves in like six years and the product lifetime is about ten years.

So you've only got four years of making any kind of – you'll break even in six years.

Zero interest loans for heat pumps and solar panels set to launch within weeks.

That's what I think, because normally I'm against the idea of a zero-interest loan, because all it does is, like, get yourself in hock, and then we'll wait until things change.

And then they'll change the interest rate, and then, ho-ho, right up the wazoo.

But at some point, we've got really good engines in the same way that they're doing this thing with the perovskite layers.

But it's not just having silicon that has that band gap, which is easily reachable, but it means you waste a lot of energy.

Or you have a big band gap that captures a lot of energy, but most photons aren't strong enough.

because energy is proportional to the frequency, so are the right color effectively to make it do the band gap.

So actually now you can capture all these different layers of energy from different photons.

The problem is I did see that at the moment – it was Plugin Solar I was doing some research on.

These things should pay for themselves in like six years and the product lifetime is about ten years.

So you've only got four years of making any kind of – you'll break even in six years.
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