{"id":118388,"date":"2021-01-11T21:30:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/solar-flow-battery-efficiently-stores-renewable-energy-in-liquid-form"},"modified":"2021-01-11T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:30:05","slug":"solar-flow-battery-efficiently-stores-renewable-energy-in-liquid-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/solar-flow-battery-efficiently-stores-renewable-energy-in-liquid-form","title":{"rendered":"Solar flow battery efficiently stores renewable energy in liquid form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-flow-battery-efficiently-stores-renewable-energy-in-liquid-form.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Capturing energy from the Sun with solar panels is only half the story \u2013 that energy needs to be stored somewhere for later use. In the case of flow batteries, storage is relegated to vats of liquid. Now, an international team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists has created a new version of these solar flow batteries that\u2019s efficient and long-lasting.<\/p>\n<p>To make the new device, the team combined several existing technologies. It\u2019s a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/energy\/tandem-perovskite-silicon-solar-cell-efficiency-record\/\">silicon\/perovskite tandem solar cell<\/a>, paired with a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/energy\/iron-aqds-flow-battery-usc\/\">redox flow battery<\/a>, which the team says will allow people to harvest and store renewable energy in one device. Not only is it efficient, but it should be inexpensive and simple enough to scale up for home use.<\/p>\n<p>The energy-harvesting part of the equation combines the long-time industry-leading material \u2013 silicon \u2013 with a promising young upstart called perovskite. These tandem solar cells have proved better than either material alone, since the two materials capture different wavelengths of light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capturing energy from the Sun with solar panels is only half the story \u2013 that energy needs to be stored somewhere for later use. In the case of flow batteries, storage is relegated to vats of liquid. Now, an international team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists has created a new version of these solar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118388","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=118388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}