Tesla Energy · Rev C
Cheap mirrors in the dirt. Hot oil in a tank. Heat for a factory that already burns gas. The field stays. Receivers evolve. Use Plain or Nerd in the header — same plant, two languages.
Architecture
01
Collect
Cheap optics. No semiconductor over the full field.
02
Concentrate
10×–100× baseline. Size receiver from Cg = Ac / Ar.
03
Route
Receiver-defined. No unverified ultra-high flux target.
04
Store
High-grade heat. Decouple sun from dispatch.
05
Convert
Electricity only after it raises whole-system exergy.
2.6 acres
First island
120 pods, noon ~2 MW_th
~3.7 GWh
Yearly heat
West Texas typical year
~140 t
Tank oil
6 hours at noon
$/MWh_th
Scoreboard
Versus the gas they burn
Plain English
We are not trying to beat rooftop panels at cheap electricity. Silicon already won. We sell hot oil to factories that burn gas for 150–390 °C heat, and we store it so the line still runs when a cloud goes over. One pod is a house. A first plant is two and a half acres.
Lab
Product is dispatchable Class-M heat, not LCOE versus PV. Cg sizes the aperture. C_flux is what the coating sees. G0 is a 5% closure with an uncertainty budget. M4 sets acres. LCOH is $/MWh_th delivered.
Locked in Rev C
PR-C01
Compact linear Fresnel, 40 m² pods, single-axis, secondary CPC. Trough is Option B if Gate G3 kills LFR optically.
Geometry
Cg = 50 on the commercial pod. Illuminated receiver area is 0.80 m² per pod — an 8.0 m × 100 mm rail, not a 6-inch hole.
RC-T
Class-M thermal oil, 250–390 °C. Absorb and extract only. No TPV, chemistry, or storage at focus.
XP-C01
Phase A is 2 m² / 25× / water 80–120 °C. Phase B grows to 8 m² / 50× / oil before any 250 °C claim.
Drawings
40 m² single-axis pod, Cg = 50, 8 m receiver rail, 0.80 m² illuminated area. Trough remains Option B.
2.0 m² dual-axis facets, 25×, 400 × 200 mm cavity, water calorimeter 80–120 °C. Close the energy balance first.
Field → 100 mm slot → cavity → two DN15 tubes. Cg is geometry. The coating sees q''(x,y). Oil leaves at 390 °C.
Cg is geometry. C_flux(x,y) = q''(x,y)/DNI is what coatings, tubes, and later CPV actually see.
Product
Daytime process heat sits in the same cost band as PV plus a heater. Night and multi-hour industrial heat is the wedge: thermal storage is tens of dollars per kWh_th. Do not claim LCOE victory against silicon plus batteries.