With a solar collector that small, I wonder if over the lifetime of the lithium ion battery (which will age and die over a few years regardless of load or charge-discharge cycles) the solar cell will actually collect more energy than was consumed in the total energy cost of producing the lithium ion battery in the first place.
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With a solar collector that small, I wonder if over the lifetime of the lithium ion battery (which will age and die over a few years regardless of load or charge-discharge cycles) the solar cell will actually collect more energy than was consumed in the total energy cost of producing the lithium ion battery in the first place.