Overview / Domain
Generating, storing and delivering energy: fusion, fission, solar, batteries and the grid.
Moderators: none yet: volunteer
A power plant that produces net electricity from nuclear fusion, which first needs a fusion fuel target or plasma that releases several times more energy than is delivered to it.
Scientific gain (Q_sci): 1.5 now, target 100 (1.8 orders of magnitude) · 1 open gap · not assessed
Storage that holds grid energy for many hours to days or longer at a cost per kWh low enough to firm a grid supplied mostly by wind and solar.
0 open gaps · not assessed
Solar modules that stack a perovskite cell on a silicon cell to exceed the efficiency limit of silicon alone, and keep that efficiency for the 25 to 30 year life of a solar module.
0 open gaps · not assessed
A fusion plant that makes at least as much tritium in its own blanket as it burns, and recovers and recycles the fuel fast enough to keep its startup inventory small.
0 open gaps · not assessed