← zemanium · Potsdam · October 20, 2026 · hardware on the table
Live · Potsdam · 20 October 2026
Snap the trigger. Watch a reservoir open.
One evening, one table: print-ready hardware that moves, the
firm-power frontier on the wall, and every number carrying its label. Take the
demonstrator in your hands — hold it, command it, watch the passage open.
Commandable reservoir reconfiguration at hand scale. A compression-loaded
folding brace holds the gate; snap the sacrificial trigger bridge, pull the
key, the brace folds and the port opens. Print-ready STL/STEP/DXF — zero
solid interference across the full motion
verified.
What it does: hold → command → release. The near-straight brace
locks the gate; one command frees the knee and the stored load opens the
passage.Held → commanded → released (below): 19.90 → 71.41 mm knee
travel, 56 mm gate stroke.
The firm-power frontier
$30–45/MWh at nuclear-class availability — the only source inside the
dominance zone. The band is the product: R6S superhot at today's conversion
class is $37.19/MWh nominal and holds the band across 77–99.9 % of
declared stress boxes simulated; the
320 °C row at real cost is $45.72/MWh nominal, and $30 is the design
spec $24.58/MWh at ≈$970/gross-kW
simulated.
Thermal movement, in metal
The ThermoSlip fit-and-stroke demonstrator: telescoping tubes, guides and
stops across a 250 × 250 × 1000 mm envelope. Hand-crank the stroke and see
how a well survives 25 years of transients
fit geometry.
The instrument nobody has
Superhot wells die at the hours nobody measured. The duty map says it
plainly: above 375 °C there is no qualification service — the 500-hour cell
at 450 °C is the company
simulated to date.
The audited ladder
Spec rows $61.65 → $29.80/MWh, one named invention per rung — Shift-Latch,
Clear-Chemistry, Conversion, Ember-BHCT, Flex-Seal. Different project
definitions, never additive; the reinforced run reproduces the $29.80 row
exactly before re-pricing at real cost. Five mechanisms, five virtual
campaigns, every falsifier executed
model.
The platform, live
Relay execution replays, the Invention series view, and the economics with
live sliders. Every claim on screen carries its provenance label — the
honesty is designed in running code.
The numbers we will quote
Claim
Label
Source
$30–45/MWh band · spec full-stack row $29.80 nominal
model
qa/thirty-mwh-audit-2026-09-14.json
R6S $37.19/MWh nominal · holds the $45 band across 77–99.9 % of declared stress boxes
simulated
qa/ladder-reinforced-2026-10-02.json
R5C $45.72/MWh nominal at real cost · holds $30 in 0 % of both boxes
simulated
qa/ladder-reinforced-2026-10-02.json
R6D $24.58/MWh nominal at ≈$970/gross-kW · $30 held in 80 % of the declared box, 99.9 % of the contract box
simulated
qa/ladder-reinforced-2026-10-02.json
New nuclear $175–255/MWh for 3 points of uptime
published
Lazard LCOE+ July 2026
5 of 5 inventions virtually qualified against bench gates · zero measured duty hours
This page prints to A4 as the show
sheet. The frontier chart prints to A2 from its own tab. The demonstrator parts
print flat with no supports — STLs and the build sheet are in
hardware/shiftlatch-demo/, with spare trigger bridges (print ten per
unit — each command consumes one).