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Notes on engineering high-temperature systems, thermal process development, and building hard-tech products.
November 7, 2026
Energy density is the wrong question for stationary thermal storage
Thermal storage media beat lithium-ion cells on volumetric energy density and lose badly at the system level. The gap is insulation — and it points at which metric actually matters.
October 31, 2026What actually breaks in first-of-a-kind plants
The models are usually right. The plant breaks anyway — because the design basis is a steady state and the plant is a sequence of transients.