{"id":122995,"date":"2021-05-25T07:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/eternally-five-years-away-no-batteries-are-improving-under-your-nose"},"modified":"2021-05-25T07:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:22:48","slug":"eternally-five-years-away-no-batteries-are-improving-under-your-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/eternally-five-years-away-no-batteries-are-improving-under-your-nose","title":{"rendered":"Eternally five years away? No, batteries are improving under your nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eternally-five-years-away-no-batteries-are-improving-under-your-nose.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have also long been chasing <a href=\"http:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=100098X1555750&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLithium%25E2%2580%2593air_battery&sref=rss\">lithium-air batteries<\/a> that could realize a huge jump in energy density. And beyond lithium, there are other <a href=\"http:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=100098X1555750&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fqz.com%2F1302711%2Fto-hit-climate-goals-bill-gates-and-his-billionaire-friends-are-betting-on-energy-storage%2F&sref=rss\">entirely different<\/a> chemistries in development out there. At some point, one of them should click for one application or another.<\/p>\n<p>Lithium-ion or not, an explosion of grid-scale battery installations is coming as prices continue to fall. The nascent art of lithium-ion battery recycling is also sure to mature and expand, improving the sustainability of these batteries by recovering and resetting their chemical building blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Adopt cold-fusion-like skepticism of any of these future-looking statements as you please, but today\u2019s batteries aren\u2019t those of 20 or even 10 years ago. The same thing is bound to be true in another 10 years\u2014even if that progress doesn\u2019t come in a single, giant leap with global fanfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have also long been chasing lithium-air batteries that could realize a huge jump in energy density. And beyond lithium, there are other entirely different chemistries in development out there. At some point, one of them should click for one application or another. Lithium-ion or not, an explosion of grid-scale battery installations is coming as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122995","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}