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just look for the qualifier

in this case "ferroelectric"




I think the confusion people are having with "Crystal arrangement results in 1,000x more power from ferroelectric solar cells" is that it doesn't have a qualifier like "more power than current ferroelectric solar cells." It only tells you what type the new ones are.

You have to infer that it's comparing new ferroelectric cells to old ferroelectric cells, and not comparing new ferroelectric cells to our typical silicon cells.

But an article doing the latter could be written with exactly the same title.




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