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Energy Technology
Technologies for generating, storing, and using energy.
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- How did Friedrich Bergius apply high-pressure hydrogenation to turn coal into synthetic fuel?
- How did the New York Times cover the 1954 solar cell announcement, and how accurate did that coverage turn out to be?
- How much energy did the December 2022 fusion reaction release compared to the laser energy that triggered it?
- What discrepancy in beta decay led Wolfgang Pauli to propose the neutrino in 1930?
- What efficiency did the Bell Labs silicon p-n junction cell achieve, and how did that compare to the selenium cells that came before it?
- What eventually ended InSight's mission in 2022?
- What long-term effect did Three Mile Island have on new nuclear plant orders in the US?
- What modern technologies rely on Marcus's framework for electron transfer?
- What modern technologies trace back directly to the photoelectric effect?
- What practical applications rely on MOFs' huge internal surface area, from carbon capture to drug delivery?
- What problem does the Calculus of Communicating Systems (CCS) address in concurrent computing?
- What roles did Daryl Chapin, Calvin Fuller, and Gerald Pearson each play in developing the first practical solar cell?
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- What share of the world's electricity does nuclear power generate today, decades after Chicago Pile-1?
- What technologies did the discovery of high-temperature superconductors open up for future research?
- Why did Edison oppose alternating current, and how did he lose that argument to Tesla and Westinghouse?
- Why does achieving ignition not yet mean fusion power is net-positive overall?
- Why does combining red, green, and blue LEDs into white light matter for global energy use?
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- Death of Thomas Edison
- First controlled nuclear chain reaction achieved
- First practical silicon solar cell demonstrated
- NASA InSight lander touches down on Mars
- NIF achieves nuclear fusion ignition
- Neutrino experimentally confirmed
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Nobel Prize in Physics