{"id":147879,"date":"2022-10-10T01:26:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T06:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/how-biological-batteries-can-generate-renewable-energy-from-soil"},"modified":"2022-10-10T01:26:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T06:26:27","slug":"how-biological-batteries-can-generate-renewable-energy-from-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/how-biological-batteries-can-generate-renewable-energy-from-soil","title":{"rendered":"How biological batteries can generate renewable energy from soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-biological-batteries-can-generate-renewable-energy-from-soil3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> circa 2021.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Think about where our energy comes from: drilling rigs and smokestacks, windmills and solar panels. Lithium-ion battery packs might even come to mind.<\/p>\n<p>We probably<em> <\/em>don\u2019t<em> <\/em>think about the farms that comprise over one-third of Earth\u2019s total land area. But farms can also be an energy source. Barcelona-based battery company Bioo is generating electricity from the organic matter in soil and creating biological batteries that can power agricultural sensors, a growing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/en\/news-release\/2021\/04\/26\/2216864\/0\/en\/Global-Agricultural-Sensors-Market-Size-Share-Will-Grow-to-USD-2-63-Billion-by-the-End-Of-2026-Facts-Factors.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CAccording%20to%20the%20research%20report,%25%20from%202019%20to%202026%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\">1.36 billion dollar<\/a> global market.<\/p>\n<p>Bioo\u2019s tech eliminates the need for single-use chemical batteries, which have to be replaced frequently. The company will work with large players such as Bayer Crop Science to pilot its sensor tech on farms, while also experimenting with using bio-batteries to power lighting installations. Eventually, Bioo envisions a future where biology<em> <\/em>may even help power our largest cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>face_with_colon_three circa 2021. Think about where our energy comes from: drilling rigs and smokestacks, windmills and solar panels. Lithium-ion battery packs might even come to mind. We probably don\u2019t think about the farms that comprise over one-third of Earth\u2019s total land area. But farms can also be an energy source. Barcelona-based battery company Bioo is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,1506,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-food","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147879","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}