{"id":122746,"date":"2021-05-20T20:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T03:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/cement-batteries-could-let-your-whole-house-store-electricity"},"modified":"2021-05-20T20:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T03:22:40","slug":"cement-batteries-could-let-your-whole-house-store-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/cement-batteries-could-let-your-whole-house-store-electricity","title":{"rendered":"Cement Batteries Could Let Your Whole House Store Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cement-batteries-could-let-your-whole-house-store-electricity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Home batteries are becoming increasingly popular ways to store solar energy to power houses at night, but what if one could make the whole house a battery? Rechargeable cement batteries prove the idea is possible, even if it has a long way to go to be affordable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cision.com\/chalmers\/i\/emma-zhang-, c2910440\">Dr Emma Zhang<\/a> of Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, mixed 0.9 percent carbon fibers into cement and poured it over a metal-coated carbon fiber mesh to make concrete blocks. In the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2075-5309\/11\/3\/103\">Buildings<\/a>, Zhang and colleagues report that with iron anodes and nickel cathodes these blocks become rechargeable batteries.<\/p>\n<p>At 0.8 Watthours per liter, Zhang\u2019s battery is hundreds of times less energy-dense than a lithium-ion battery, and completely useless for transportation purposes. However, it stores about ten times more energy than previous rechargeable concrete batteries. These, Zhang said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2021-05\/cuot-wfc051721.php\">statement<\/a>; \u201cShowed very low performance,\u201d forcing her and colleagues to seek new ideas on how to produce the electrodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home batteries are becoming increasingly popular ways to store solar energy to power houses at night, but what if one could make the whole house a battery? Rechargeable cement batteries prove the idea is possible, even if it has a long way to go to be affordable. Dr Emma Zhang of Chalmers University of Technology, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122746","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}