{"id":133714,"date":"2022-01-07T11:23:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T19:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/ocean-battery-targets-renewable-energy-dilemma"},"modified":"2022-01-07T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T19:23:21","slug":"ocean-battery-targets-renewable-energy-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/ocean-battery-targets-renewable-energy-dilemma","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ocean battery\u2019 targets renewable energy dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ocean-battery-targets-renewable-energy-dilemma.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A wind turbine sitting idle on a calm day or spinning swiftly when power demand is already met poses a problem for renewables, and is one researchers think can be tackled under the sea.<\/p>\n<p>In one vision, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/offshore+wind+farms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">offshore wind farms<\/a> could use seawater to essentially store <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy<\/a> until it\u2019s needed, helping wean humanity off fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came up with a solution that we call the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/ocean\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ocean<\/a> battery,\u201d Frits Bliek, CEO of Dutch startup Ocean Grazer told AFP while showing off the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/system\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">system<\/a> at the CES tech fair in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wind turbine sitting idle on a calm day or spinning swiftly when power demand is already met poses a problem for renewables, and is one researchers think can be tackled under the sea. In one vision, offshore wind farms could use seawater to essentially store energy until it\u2019s needed, helping wean humanity off fossil [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133714","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\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}