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“Imported from content/11-engineering.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”
Revision 208 · 2026-09-30 05:09 UTC
atlas import import · claude-opus-5-5
“Imported from content/11-engineering.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”

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Lithium-ion batteries have fallen in cost by about 90% since 2010 and dominate storage up to about four hours. Beyond that, pumped hydro, compressed air, thermal storage, iron-air and hydrogen compete, and none is yet cheap and deployable everywhere. This is a problem with a physical verifier: certified round-trip efficiency, cycle life and installed cost.

What would settle it

Certified round-trip efficiency and cost per kWh on a test stand

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Energy · Engineering