Previously, because your prices were so much lower, I had no choice but to choose Chinese products.
Currently, the price reduction is limited, coupled with trade protectionism and the desire to keep industries within their own countries. As a result, developed countries are gradually beginning to implement domestic substitution in the field of photovoltaic modules.
Fortune changes like the wheel of fortune.
Previously, China focused on domestic substitution to reduce IOE (IBM, Oracle, and EMC) production; now, developed countries are starting to reduce their reliance on China in the photovoltaic industry.
As this trend intensifies, it has caused widespread panic throughout the industry.
Developed countries have the strongest demand for clean energy. For developing and underdeveloped countries, survival is enough; they don't have the resources to pursue these things.
The International Monetary Fund or other organizations will proactively provide interest-free loans to these developing and underdeveloped countries to promote clean energy.
However, who gets these interest-free loans depends on who's willing to be their dog, and there might be a subtle hint that you'd better buy my Americano products.
After experiencing a peak in 2024/25, China's photovoltaic industry has been declining all the way down and is now in a state of high alert.
Many second- and third-tier photovoltaic manufacturers have already gone bankrupt.
The global photovoltaic industry reshuffling was already a winter for Chinese photovoltaic companies, and the bio-photovoltaic products that Singapore is about to launch are like pouring a bucket of cold water on that winter.
It can't get any colder.
Every company related to the photovoltaic industry has seen its stock price plummet. This isn't just limited to A-shares; it's the same for listed photovoltaic companies globally.
The price-to-earnings ratios of the two leading photovoltaic companies in China have fallen below 0.5.
This is even before any technical parameters of the biophotovoltaic product have been disclosed.
"Are we still going to play? As long as our country doesn't allow Singapore's bio-photovoltaic products to enter our market."
These photovoltaic companies, which meet domestic demand, would have a market capitalization far exceeding their current levels.
"If you're not going to play, get out of here. I can recite all the things the company secretary keeps saying."
Why not buy back and cancel shares at a time like this to boost confidence, when there are still tens of billions of dollars in liquid funds lying around in the books?
"Just considering the tens of billions of dollars in liquid funds on the books, the market value is more than what it is now."
Photovoltaics used to be a high-investment, high-return industry.
Only leading raw material companies have a lot of working capital on their books, but they still have a considerable amount of short-term and long-term liabilities.
For companies downstream in the industrial chain, things are far from easy.
The imminent launch of bio-photovoltaic products has led to a sharp decline in global photovoltaic demand, with everyone adopting a wait-and-see approach.
Is bio-photovoltaics more environmentally friendly and energy-efficient than silicon-based photovoltaics?
Even though the specific parameters have not yet been revealed, investors can infer that bio-photovoltaic base stations are definitely superior to traditional photovoltaic technology in terms of operation and lifespan.
Apart from upstream raw material suppliers who have a certain bargaining power, other manufacturers have accounts receivable rather than cash on their books.
Moreover, if demand suddenly disappears, accounts receivable cannot be converted into cash at all.
The global photovoltaic industry can be summed up in two words: stagnation. We're just waiting for the latest news from Singapore.
The shareholders of A-shares were full of complaints.
It's even worse than buying real estate bonds in 2021.
Do you think Merlin's biophotovoltaic technology will really have a longer lifespan than traditional photovoltaic modules?
It doesn't necessarily have to be a tree.
It could be bacteria or microorganisms.
One of our previous technical solutions involved using photosynthetic microorganisms as light absorbers.
Non-biological engineering methods, such as electrode modification and device optimization, can be used to enhance electrochemical communication between living cells and electrodes.
However, due to the weak electrogenic activity of photosynthetic microorganisms, the power density of bpv remains very low.
We developed a bpv based on a d-lactic acid-mediated microbial consortium consisting of photosynthetic cyanobacteria and electrogenic Shewanella.
By directing solar energy from photons to d-lactic acid and then to electricity, this bpv generates a power density of over 150 mW·m⁻² in a time-separated setting.
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Even so, the spatiotemporal separation setup with moderate supplementation can only operate stably for more than 40 days, with an average power density of 135 mw·m⁻².
I believe that biophotovoltaic technology may not be as promising as everyone expects.
This method was mentioned in an article published in Nature by Chinese scientists in September 2019.
The first author of the paper, an undisputed leading figure in the field of biophotovoltaics, was invited by several private equity fund managers to give them a lecture.
The appearance fee alone was six figures.
However, compared to the appearance fees of celebrities, it's not much.
Biophotovoltaic technology has not only had a dramatic impact on investors and investment institutions, but has also caused a huge shock to the academic community.
Everyone else's technology is still in its primitive stage, so how come you were able to promote it on a large scale right away?
"Professor Zhu, just like how we all thought biocommunication technology was very unrealistic before, and people didn't believe that biocommunication technology could be realized."
As a result, biocommunication technology has now been implemented in major cities around the world.
The same applies to biophotovoltaic technology.
It has been said that the 21st century is the century of biology, and now it seems that this is indeed the case, except that the century of biology did not begin at the beginning of the century.
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