{"id":100503,"date":"2020-01-05T01:42:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T09:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/ibms-lithium-ion-battery-uses-seawater-materials-instead-of-heavy-metals-charges-in-just-5-minutes"},"modified":"2020-01-05T01:42:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T09:42:45","slug":"ibms-lithium-ion-battery-uses-seawater-materials-instead-of-heavy-metals-charges-in-just-5-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/ibms-lithium-ion-battery-uses-seawater-materials-instead-of-heavy-metals-charges-in-just-5-minutes","title":{"rendered":"IBM\u2019s Lithium-Ion Battery Uses Seawater Materials Instead Of Heavy Metals, Charges In Just 5 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ibms-lithium-ion-battery-uses-seawater-materials-instead-of-heavy-metals-charges-in-just-5-minutes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IBM found a way to make a battery with materials from seawater instead of cobalt or nickel which are harmful to the environment, and it charges much faster.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Lithium-ion batteries are just as important as solar panels and wind turbines in our pursuit of sustainable energy. The use of lithium-ion technology is sustainable, however, its materials are not. When the battery has served its purpose, if it\u2019s not disposed of correctly, it has a profoundly negative impact on the planet. Furthermore, the making of the batteries involves sourcing of heavy metals that are expensive and come at a substantial humanitarian and environmental cost.<\/p>\n<p>In search of a better option, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/blogs\/research\/2019\/12\/heavy-metal-free-battery\/\">IBM<\/a> found a way to make a battery that relies on materials from seawater instead. Testing revealed that the new battery is just as good as the one made with heavy metals, such as cobalt and nickel.<\/p>\n<p>In retaliation to the unethical practice of how heavy metals are attained, as well as the damage these metals cause when they leak out into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentliving.co\/category\/environment\/\">environment<\/a>, companies like IBM have taken a considerable interest in developing alternatives that don\u2019t require the use of heavy metals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM found a way to make a battery with materials from seawater instead of cobalt or nickel which are harmful to the environment, and it charges much faster. Lithium-ion batteries are just as important as solar panels and wind turbines in our pursuit of sustainable energy. The use of lithium-ion technology is sustainable, however, its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}