{"id":171575,"date":"2023-09-08T06:26:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T11:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/how-water-could-make-safer-batteries"},"modified":"2023-09-08T06:26:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T11:26:17","slug":"how-water-could-make-safer-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/how-water-could-make-safer-batteries","title":{"rendered":"How water could make safer batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-water-could-make-safer-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alternative chemistries could address one of the greatest concerns about lithium-ion batteries.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d be willing to bet that you probably haven\u2019t spent much time thinking about the liquid that sloshes around inside batteries.<\/p>\n<p>But this liquid\u2014called the electrolyte\u2014is one of their key ingredients, and it dictates a lot about how they work, as well as how safe they are. And I\u2019ve seen a growing number of alternative battery makers talk about using an interesting ingredient in their electrolyte: water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative chemistries could address one of the greatest concerns about lithium-ion batteries. I\u2019d be willing to bet that you probably haven\u2019t spent much time thinking about the liquid that sloshes around inside batteries. But this liquid\u2014called the electrolyte\u2014is one of their key ingredients, and it dictates a lot about how they work, as well as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171575","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}