{"id":168825,"date":"2023-08-01T08:25:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T13:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/engineers-create-an-energy-storing-supercapacitor-from-ancient-materials"},"modified":"2023-08-01T08:25:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T13:25:06","slug":"engineers-create-an-energy-storing-supercapacitor-from-ancient-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/engineers-create-an-energy-storing-supercapacitor-from-ancient-materials","title":{"rendered":"Engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-create-an-energy-storing-supercapacitor-from-ancient-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two of humanity\u2019s most ubiquitous historical materials, cement and carbon black (which resembles very fine charcoal), may form the basis for a novel, low-cost energy storage system, according to a new study. The technology could facilitate the use of renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, and tidal power by allowing energy networks to remain stable despite fluctuations in renewable energy supply.<\/p>\n<p>The two materials, the researchers found, can be combined with water to make a supercapacitor\u2014an alternative to batteries\u2014that could provide storage of electrical <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As an example, the MIT researchers who developed the system say that their supercapacitor could eventually be incorporated into the concrete foundation of a house, where it could store a full day\u2019s worth of energy while adding little (or no) to the cost of the foundation and still providing the needed structural strength. The researchers also envision a concrete roadway that could provide contactless recharging for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electric+cars\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric cars<\/a> as they travel over that road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of humanity\u2019s most ubiquitous historical materials, cement and carbon black (which resembles very fine charcoal), may form the basis for a novel, low-cost energy storage system, according to a new study. The technology could facilitate the use of renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, and tidal power by allowing energy networks to remain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168825","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}