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Energy density Extended Reference Table

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Storage typeSpecific energy (MJ/kg)Energy density (MJ/L)Peak recovery efficiency %Practical recovery efficiency %Storage typeEnergy density by mass (MJ/kg)Energy density by volume (MJ/L)Peak recovery efficiency %Practical recovery efficiency %
Arbitrary antimatter89,875,517,874depends on density
Deuterium–tritium fusion576,000,000
Uranium-235 fissile isotopelast1=Prelasfirst1=Marktitle=Nuclear-Pumped Lasersdate=2015publisher=Springerisbn=978-3-319-19845-3page=135url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hmn_CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA135}}1,500,000,000
Natural uranium (99.3% U-238, 0.7% U-235) in fast breeder reactor86,000,000
Reactor-grade uranium (3.5% U-235) in light-water reactor3,456,00035%
Pu-238 α-decay2,200,000
Hf-178m2 isomer1,326,00017,649,060
Natural uranium (0.7% U235) in light-water reactor443,00035%
Ta-180m isomer41,340689,964
Metallic hydrogen (recombination energy)216
Specific orbital energy of low Earth orbit (approximate)33.0
Beryllium + oxygen23.9
Lithium + fluorine23.75
Octaazacubane potential explosive22.9
Hydrogen + oxygen13.4
Gasoline + oxygen13.3
Dinitroacetylene explosive – computed9.8
Octanitrocubane explosive8.516.9
Tetranitrotetrahedrane explosive – computed8.3
Heptanitrocubane explosive – computed8.2
Sodium (reacted with chlorine)7.0349
Hexanitrobenzene explosive7
Tetranitrocubane explosive – computed6.95
Ammonal (Al+NH4NO3 oxidizer)6.912.7
Tetranitromethane + hydrazine bipropellant – computed6.6
Nitroglycerinurl=http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/navy/docs/es310/chemstry/chemstry.htmtitle=Chemical Explosivespublisher=Fas.orgdate=2008-05-30access-date=2010-05-07}}10.2
ANFO–ANNM6.26
Lithium–air battery6.12
Octogen (HMX)5.710.8
TNT4.6106.92
Copper Thermite (Al + CuO as oxidizer)4.1320.9
Thermite (powder Al + Fe2O3 as oxidizer)4.0018.4
ANFO3.7
Hydrogen peroxide decomposition (as monopropellant)2.73.8
Li-ion nanowire battery2.542995%
Lithium thionyl chloride battery2.5
Water (220.64 bar, 373.8 °C)1.9680.708
Kinetic energy penetrator1.930
Lithium–sulfur battery1.801.26
Fluoride-ion battery1.72.8
Hydrogen closed cycle fuel cell1.62
Hydrazine decomposition (as monopropellant)1.61.6
Ammonium nitrate decomposition (as monopropellant)1.42.5
Molten salt198%
Molecular spring (approximate)1
Lithium metal battery0.83-1.011.98-2.09
Sodium–sulfur battery0.721.2385%
Lithium-ion battery0.46–0.720.83–3.6first=Justinlast=Lemire-Elmoredate=2004-04-13title=The Energy Cost of Electric and Human-Powered Bicyclesurl=http://www.ebikes.ca/sustainability/Ebike_Energy.pdfat=p. 7: Table 3: Input and Output Energy from Batteriesaccess-date=2009-02-26archive-date=2012-09-13archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913095738/http://www.ebikes.ca/sustainability/Ebike_Energy.pdf }}
Sodium–nickel chloride battery, high temperature0.56
Zinc–manganese (alkaline) battery, long life design0.4-0.591.15-1.43
Silver-oxide battery0.471.8
Flywheelurl=http://www.itpower.co.uk/investire/pdfs/flywheelrep.pdftitle=Storage Technology Report, ST6 Flywheelaccess-date=2012-12-14archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114062530/http://www.itpower.co.uk/investire/pdfs/flywheelrep.pdfarchive-date=2013-01-14 }}
5.56 × 45 mm NATO bullet muzzle energy density0.43.2
Nickel–metal hydride battery (NiMH), low power design as used in consumer batteries0.41.55
Liquid nitrogen0.349
Water – enthalpy of fusion0.3340.334
Zinc–bromine flow battery (ZnBr)0.27
Nickel–metal hydride battery (NiMH), high-power design as used in cars0.2500.493
Nickel–cadmium battery (NiCd)0.141.0880%
[Zinc–carbon battery
[Lead–acid battery0.140.36
Vanadium redox battery0.090.11887070-75%
Vanadium bromide redox battery0.180.25280%–90%
Ultracapacitor0.01990.050
Supercapacitor0.01last1=Zdenekfirst1=Cerovskýlast2=Pavelfirst2=Mindltitle=Hybrid drive with super-capacitor energy storageurl=http://www2.fs.cvut.cz/web/fileadmin/documents/12241-BOZEK/publikace/2004/Sup-Cap-Energy-Storage.pdfarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722130618/http://www3.fs.cvut.cz/web/fileadmin/documents/12241-BOZEK/publikace/2004/Sup-Cap-Energy-Storage.pdfarchive-date=2012-07-22access-date=2012-12-14publisher=Faculty of Mechanical Engineering CTU in Prague}}39%–70%
Superconducting magnetic energy storage0.00895%
Capacitor0.002
Neodymium magnetlast1=Rahmanfirst1=M.last2=Slemonfirst2=G.date=September 1985title=Promising applications of neodymium boron Iron magnets in electrical machinesurl=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1064113/keywordsjournal=IEEE Transactions on Magneticslanguage=envolume=21issue=5pages=1712–1716doi=10.1109/TMAG.1985.1064113bibcode=1985ITM....21.1712Rissn=0018-9464archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513205201/http://www.askmar.com/Magnets/Promising%20Magnet%20Applications.pdfarchive-date=13 May 2011url-access=subscription }}
Ferrite magnet0.0003
Spring power (clock spring), torsion spring0.00030.0006

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