{"id":152931,"date":"2022-12-15T23:24:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T05:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/new-lantern-is-better-than-solar-and-can-be-charged"},"modified":"2022-12-15T23:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T05:24:23","slug":"new-lantern-is-better-than-solar-and-can-be-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/new-lantern-is-better-than-solar-and-can-be-charged","title":{"rendered":"New Lantern Is Better Than Solar and Can Be Charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sOycx_TV53A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Colombian renewable energy startup E-Dina developed a wireless lantern, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.waterlight.com.co\/\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\">called WaterLight<\/a>, that converts salt water into electricity and is more reliable than solar-powered lamps, a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2021\/04\/23\/waterlight-edina-wunderman-thompson-colombia\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dezeen<\/em> article explains<\/a>. And it can also be charged by urine in emergency situations.<\/p>\n<p>The portable device acts as a mini generator that produces light using ionization \u2014 by filling it with 500 milliliters of seawater, the salt in the water reacts with magnesium and copper plates inside the device, converting it into electrical energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombian renewable energy startup E-Dina developed a wireless lantern, called WaterLight, that converts salt water into electricity and is more reliable than solar-powered lamps, a Dezeen article explains. And it can also be charged by urine in emergency situations. The portable device acts as a mini generator that produces light using ionization \u2014 by filling [\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-152931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152931","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=152931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}