{"id":110914,"date":"2020-08-05T12:15:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T19:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/liquid-air-energy-storage-a-power-grid-battery-using-regular-old-ambient-air"},"modified":"2020-08-05T12:15:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T19:15:40","slug":"liquid-air-energy-storage-a-power-grid-battery-using-regular-old-ambient-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/liquid-air-energy-storage-a-power-grid-battery-using-regular-old-ambient-air","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Air Energy Storage: A Power Grid Battery Using Regular Old Ambient Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/liquid-air-energy-storage-a-power-grid-battery-using-regular-old-ambient-air3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you think of renewable energy, what comes to mind? We\u2019d venture to guess that wind and solar are probably near the top of the list. And yes, wind and solar are great as long as the winds are favorable and the sun is shining. But what about all those short and bleak winter days? Rainy days? Night time?<\/p>\n<p>Unfavorable conditions mean that storage is an important part of any viable solution that uses renewable energy. Either the energy itself has to be stored, or else the means to produce the energy on demand must be stored.<\/p>\n<p>One possible answer has been right under our noses all along \u2014 air. Regular old ambient air can be cooled and compressed into a liquid, stored in tanks, and then reheated to its gaseous state to do work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you think of renewable energy, what comes to mind? We\u2019d venture to guess that wind and solar are probably near the top of the list. And yes, wind and solar are great as long as the winds are favorable and the sun is shining. But what about all those short and bleak winter days? [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110914","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}