{"id":188084,"date":"2024-04-25T06:24:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T11:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/revolutionizing-renewable-energy-innovative-salt-battery-efficiently-harvests-osmotic-power"},"modified":"2024-04-25T06:24:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T11:24:47","slug":"revolutionizing-renewable-energy-innovative-salt-battery-efficiently-harvests-osmotic-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/revolutionizing-renewable-energy-innovative-salt-battery-efficiently-harvests-osmotic-power","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionizing Renewable Energy: Innovative Salt Battery Efficiently Harvests Osmotic Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/revolutionizing-renewable-energy-innovative-salt-battery-efficiently-harvests-osmotic-power2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new semipermeable membrane doubles the osmotic energy output in estuaries, showing potential for sustainable power generation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Estuaries \u2014 where freshwater rivers meet the salty sea \u2014 are great locations for birdwatching and kayaking. In these areas, waters containing different salt concentrations mix and may be sources of sustainable, \u201cblue\u201d osmotic energy. In the journal <em>ACS Energy Letters<\/em>, researchers report creating a semipermeable membrane that harvests osmotic energy from salt gradients and converts it to electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The new design had an output power density more than two times higher than commercial membranes in lab demonstrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new semipermeable membrane doubles the osmotic energy output in estuaries, showing potential for sustainable power generation. Estuaries \u2014 where freshwater rivers meet the salty sea \u2014 are great locations for birdwatching and kayaking. In these areas, waters containing different salt concentrations mix and may be sources of sustainable, \u201cblue\u201d osmotic energy. In the journal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188084","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}