{"id":138075,"date":"2022-04-13T13:05:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T18:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/these-plastic-batteries-could-help-store-renewable-energy-on-the-grid"},"modified":"2022-04-13T13:05:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T18:05:31","slug":"these-plastic-batteries-could-help-store-renewable-energy-on-the-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/these-plastic-batteries-could-help-store-renewable-energy-on-the-grid","title":{"rendered":"These plastic batteries could help store renewable energy on the grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-plastic-batteries-could-help-store-renewable-energy-on-the-grid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new type of battery made from electrically conductive polymers\u2014basically plastic\u2014could help make energy storage on the grid cheaper and more durable, enabling a greater use of renewable power.<\/p>\n<p>The batteries, made by Boston-based startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polyjoule.com\/\">PolyJoule<\/a>, could offer a less expensive and longer-lasting alternative to lithium-ion batteries for storing electricity from intermittent sources like wind and solar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new type of battery made from electrically conductive polymers\u2014basically plastic\u2014could help make energy storage on the grid cheaper and more durable, enabling a greater use of renewable power. The batteries, made by Boston-based startup PolyJoule, could offer a less expensive and longer-lasting alternative to lithium-ion batteries for storing electricity from intermittent sources like wind [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138075","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}