This could be a classic win-win solution: A system proposed by researchers at MIT recycles materials from discarded car batteries — a potential source of lead pollution — into new, long-lasting solar panels that provide emissions-free power.
Laboratory experiments confirm that solar cells made with recycled lead work just as well as those made with high-purity, commercially available starting materials. Battery recycling could thus support production of these novel solar cells while researchers work to replace the lead with a more benign but equally effective material.
MIT researchers show how to recycle materials from old car batteries into new solar panels. Battery pileup ahead One motivation for using the lead in old car batteries is that battery technology is undergoing rapid change, with new, more efficient types, such as lithium-ion batteries, swiftly taking over the market.
At that point, the 250 million lead-acid batteries in U.S. cars today will become waste — and that could cause environmental problems. “If we could recover the lead in those batteries and use it to make perovskite solar cells, it'd be a win-win situation,” Belcher says. Recovering and processing materials
When the panels are eventually retired, the lead can simply be recycled into new solar panels. “The process to encapsulate them will be the same as for polymer cells today,” Chen says.
In research paper reported in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, researchers describe a method for making perovskite solar cells using the lead from recycled car batteries. The technique can be done in a low-temperature, benign process that's simpler than today's methods, they say.
Assuming that the perovskite thin film is just half a micrometer thick, the researchers calculate that a single lead-acid car battery could supply enough lead for the fabrication of more than 700 square meters of perovskite solar cells.
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