{"id":183516,"date":"2024-02-24T10:58:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T16:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/mit-scientists-may-have-found-a-cheap-way-of-storing-huge-amounts-of-energy-in-cement"},"modified":"2024-02-24T10:58:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T16:58:30","slug":"mit-scientists-may-have-found-a-cheap-way-of-storing-huge-amounts-of-energy-in-cement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/mit-scientists-may-have-found-a-cheap-way-of-storing-huge-amounts-of-energy-in-cement","title":{"rendered":"MIT Scientists May Have Found a Cheap Way of Storing Huge Amounts of Energy in Cement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-scientists-may-have-found-a-cheap-way-of-storing-huge-amounts-of-energy-in-cement2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of MIT researchers has figured out a way to create a supercapacitor simply by mixing cement, the binding ingredient of concrete, and a fine charcoal product called carbon black together with water.<\/p>\n<p>Better yet, this mixture could allow a home to store a full day\u2019s worth of energy in its foundation, potentially paving the way to an efficient renewable energy storage solution that doesn\u2019t rely on mining rare Earth metals.<\/p>\n<p>Roads made up of the material could even power electric cars wirelessly, the researchers say, or windmills could store their generated energy in their base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of MIT researchers has figured out a way to create a supercapacitor simply by mixing cement, the binding ingredient of concrete, and a fine charcoal product called carbon black together with water. Better yet, this mixture could allow a home to store a full day\u2019s worth of energy in its foundation, potentially paving [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183516","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\/183516","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}