{"id":12465,"date":"2014-12-07T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12465"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:03:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:03:28","slug":"moss-can-power-a-radio-and-could-eventually-charge-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/moss-can-power-a-radio-and-could-eventually-charge-your-phone","title":{"rendered":"Moss can power a radio, and could eventually charge your phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a class=\"url fn\" title=\"Posts by Sarah Laskow\" href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/author\/sarah-laskow\/\" rel=\"author\">Sarah Laskow<\/a> \u2014 Grist<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/moss.jpg?w=320&amp;h=180&amp;crop=1<\/a>, (default)], [<a href=\"http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/moss.jpg?w=480&amp;h=270&amp;crop=1\">http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/moss.jpg?w=480&amp;h=270&amp;crop=1<\/a>, (only screen and (min-width: 1px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5))], [<a href=\"http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/moss.jpg?w=640&amp;h=360&amp;crop=1\">http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/moss.jpg?w=640&amp;h=360&amp;crop=1<\/a>, (only screen and (min-width: 321px))], [<a href=\"http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/moss.jpg?w=960&amp;h=540&amp;crop=1\">http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/moss.jpg?w=960&amp;h=540&amp;crop=1<\/a>, (only screen and (min-width: 321px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5))], [<a href=\"http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/moss.jpg?w=1024&amp;h=576&amp;crop=1\">http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/moss.jpg?w=1024&amp;h=576&amp;crop=1<\/a>, (only screen and (min-width: 641px))], [<a href=\"http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/moss.jpg?w=1024&amp;h=681&amp;crop=1, (only screen and (min-width: 641px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5))\">http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/moss.jpg?w=1024&amp;amp\u2026PACE#1.5))<\/a>]\u201d \/&gt;<\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists over in Europe have decided to take the idea of \u201cgreen\u201d power very, very literally: They have developed a system to harness the energy generated by moss.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2014\/02\/moss-power-homes\/\">Modern Farmer<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Along with two scientists from the University of Cambridge, Felder developed a way to use moss as a \u201cbiological solar panel.\u201d Put simply, moss creates surplus electrons during photosynthesis. Felder\u2019s collaborators have tapped into this electricity on a small scale \u2014 they\u2019ve built a functional, moss-powered radio. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>The radio only runs for a couple minutes at a time. \u2026 But it\u2019s early yet \u2014 the scientists have only figured how to harness about 0.1% of moss\u2019s energy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/list\/moss-can-power-a-radio-and-could-eventually-charge-your-phone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Laskow \u2014 Grist http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/moss.jpg?w=320&amp;h=180&amp;crop=1, (default)], [http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/moss.jpg?w=480&amp;h=270&amp;crop=1, (only screen and (min-width: 1px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5))], [http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/moss.jpg?w=640&amp;h=360&amp;crop=1, (only screen and (min-width: 321px))], [http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/moss.jpg?w=960&amp;h=540&amp;crop=1, (only screen and (min-width: 321px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5))], [http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/moss.jpg?w=1024&amp;h=576&amp;crop=1, (only screen and (min-width: 641px))], [http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/moss.jpg?w=1024&amp;amp\u2026PACE#1.5))]\u201d \/&gt; A team of scientists over in Europe have decided to take the idea of \u201cgreen\u201d power [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12465","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64864,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12465\/revisions\/64864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}