A Molten-Salt Battery Store for a Venus Surface Station: Capacity and Thermal Sizing

This study sizes a Molten-Salt Battery Store for a Venus Surface Station for operation in the Venus surface environment and reports the result as SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED. The design is developed from stated physical relations and a shared environmental basis, and every performance figure is computed by the deposited script rather than asserted. Among the computed results are usable storage capacity of 60.0 kilowatt-hours, nameplate capacity of 70.6 kilowatt-hours, cell mass of 642 kilograms, total cell count of 200 as a count. Mass and power budgets are assembled from components so that they can be audited, off-design behaviour and materials uncertainty are discussed openly, and the limits of the sizing are stated in full. The system is a civilian science and construction design intended for a robotically serviced surface station.