Cold Battery
-Concept Energy storage in a cooled material
Team: Vitalis (ID code: 53551)
Cristian.j.pro@gmail.com
Challenge
EXPLORING VENUS TOGETHER
The challenge is to design an energy storage system that will power a surface lander or rover on the surface of Venus for at least 60 days, so that there is a viable energy storage capability for long-duration exploration missions.
“The temperature is extremely hot (~460°C) and the high-pressure atmosphere (~93bar) contains caustic chemicals (SO2, HCl, HF). “
Discarding Ideas and planning
I thought of the principle of the generator starling studied for NASA.
A cross section of the Technology Demonstration Convertors, TDC. Image credit: NASA Glenn Research Center
My idea is to cool a material with the generated energy.
I don't focus on the energy source, just the storage.
Instead of radioisotopes the generator will work because of the temperature difference with the atmosphere Venusian
It can stand the atmosphere of Venus. My first idea was use the pressurization of the lander to turn into a battery and in turn cool the instruments, also could be packaged and used as a backup or to the rover.