Every technology.
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Click any stage below to expand the technologies that live there. Every entry links to a full walkthrough — how it works, honest tradeoffs, what's coming next.
Featured technologies with full walkthroughs
Solar Photovoltaic
Silicon. Sunlight. Current.
Panels convert photons directly into electrons through the photovoltaic effect — no turbines, no moving parts, just silicon and sunlight.
Wind (Onshore)
Lift. Rotation. Current.
Airfoil-shaped blades generate lift, spinning a rotor connected — directly or through a gearbox — to a generator.
Lithium-Ion (LFP)
Chemistry as a battery.
Lithium ions shuttle between an iron-phosphate cathode and a graphite anode — the chemical dance that stores grid-scale energy.
Sand Battery
The oldest thermal trick, weaponized.
Excess renewable electricity heats ordinary sand to 600°C inside an insulated silo. Heat is stored for weeks — then released to warm buildings or spin a turbine.
Geothermal
4.5-billion-year-old reactor. Still running.
The earth is a nuclear reactor. A few kilometers down, it is hot enough to make steam — or, at shallow depth, stable enough to heat and cool a house with a ground loop.
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