{"id":116053,"date":"2020-11-19T10:06:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T18:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/a-battery-technology-worth-its-salt"},"modified":"2020-11-19T10:06:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T18:06:03","slug":"a-battery-technology-worth-its-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/a-battery-technology-worth-its-salt","title":{"rendered":"A battery technology worth its salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-battery-technology-worth-its-salt.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With lithium-containing batteries facing constraints on many of the metals they contain, Nina Notman looks at whether its group 1 neighbour sodium can supply the answer.<\/p>\n<p>The lithium-ion battery powers much of our modern lives, a fact reflected in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chemistryworld.com\/4010510.article\">this year\u2019s Nobel prize<\/a>. It resides in devices ranging from very small wearable electronics, through mobile phones and laptops, to electric vehicles and \u2018the world\u2019s biggest battery\u2019 \u2013 the huge 100MW\/129MWh Tesla battery installed on an Australian wind farm in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Lithium-ion has a massive span of applications,\u2019 explains Jonathan Knott, an energy storage researcher at the University of Wollongong in Australia. \u2018It is being used as a hammer to crack every nut and we need to start getting a little bit more sophisticated in the use of the best tool for the job.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With lithium-containing batteries facing constraints on many of the metals they contain, Nina Notman looks at whether its group 1 neighbour sodium can supply the answer. The lithium-ion battery powers much of our modern lives, a fact reflected in this year\u2019s Nobel prize. It resides in devices ranging from very small wearable electronics, through mobile [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,17,1491,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-sustainability","category-transportation","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116053","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=116053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}