{"id":144783,"date":"2022-08-25T11:25:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T16:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/a-new-concept-for-low-cost-batteries"},"modified":"2022-08-25T11:25:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T16:25:13","slug":"a-new-concept-for-low-cost-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/a-new-concept-for-low-cost-batteries","title":{"rendered":"A new concept for low-cost batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-concept-for-low-cost-batteries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the world builds out ever larger installations of wind and solar power systems, the need is growing fast for economical, large-scale backup systems to provide power when the sun is down and the air is calm. Today\u2019s lithium-ion batteries are still too expensive for most such applications, and other options such as pumped hydro require specific topography that\u2019s not always available.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a new kind of battery, made entirely from abundant and inexpensive materials, that could help to fill that gap.<\/p>\n<p>The new battery architecture, which uses aluminum and sulfur as its two electrode materials, with a molten salt electrolyte in between, is described today in the journal <em>Nature<\/em>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-04983-9\" target=\"_blank\">a paper<\/a> by MIT Professor Donald Sadoway, along with 15 others at MIT and in China, Canada, Kentucky, and Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world builds out ever larger installations of wind and solar power systems, the need is growing fast for economical, large-scale backup systems to provide power when the sun is down and the air is calm. Today\u2019s lithium-ion batteries are still too expensive for most such applications, and other options such as pumped hydro [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144783","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\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}