{"id":145719,"date":"2022-09-06T01:25:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T06:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/new-technique-significantly-increases-lifetimes-of-fuel-cells-and-other-devices"},"modified":"2022-09-06T01:25:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T06:25:37","slug":"new-technique-significantly-increases-lifetimes-of-fuel-cells-and-other-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/new-technique-significantly-increases-lifetimes-of-fuel-cells-and-other-devices","title":{"rendered":"New technique significantly increases lifetimes of fuel cells and other devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-technique-significantly-increases-lifetimes-of-fuel-cells-and-other-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The adoption rate of fuel cells has increased owing to the rising need for clean energy.<\/p>\n<p>In a research that could jump-start the work on a range of technologies, including fuel cells, which are key to storing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/solar-energy\/\">solar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/wind-turbine\/\">wind energy<\/a>, MIT researchers have found a simple way to significantly increase the lifetimes of fuel cells and other devices \u2013 changing the pH of the system.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel\/electrolysis cells made of materials known as solid metal oxides are in interest for several reasons. In electrolysis mode, they are very efficient at converting electricity from a renewable source into a storable fuel like hydrogen or methane. This storable fuel can be used in the fuel cell mode to generate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/electricity\/\">electricity<\/a> when the sun is not shining, or the wind isn\u2019t blowing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The adoption rate of fuel cells has increased owing to the rising need for clean energy. In a research that could jump-start the work on a range of technologies, including fuel cells, which are key to storing solar and wind energy, MIT researchers have found a simple way to significantly increase the lifetimes of fuel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145719","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=145719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}