Coal, nuclear, hydro, solar, wind. Energy regulation has a vocabulary for nearly everything familiar. But what happens when a proposed technology fits none of the boxes?
Multi-channel solid-state energy conversion raises an unusual challenge: how do you classify, measure and independently verify something before its operating principle has an established regulatory category? The question is not whether a technology deserves approval, but whether the tools exist to evaluate its claims.
Sometimes the first engineering problem is an administrative one.
