Comment by zitterbewegung
5 days ago
Okay so I meant to say the simplest way is to heat water in this situation. But there are alternatives here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power?wprov=sfti1#Tripl...
5 days ago
Okay so I meant to say the simplest way is to heat water in this situation. But there are alternatives here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power?wprov=sfti1#Tripl...
I wouldn't have looked this up otherwise.
Maybe solar energy storage makes sense for storing the energy from fusion reactor stars, too.
There's also MOST: Molecular Solar Thermal Energy Storage, which stores solar energy as chemical energy for up to 18 years with a "specially designed molecule of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen that changes shape when it comes into contact with sunlight."
"Chip-scale solar thermal electrical power generation" (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2022.100789