{"id":189513,"date":"2024-05-16T07:27:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/revolutionizing-renewable-energy-scientists-develop-new-low-cost-battery-with-over-8000-uses"},"modified":"2024-05-16T07:27:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:27:37","slug":"revolutionizing-renewable-energy-scientists-develop-new-low-cost-battery-with-over-8000-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/revolutionizing-renewable-energy-scientists-develop-new-low-cost-battery-with-over-8000-uses","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionizing Renewable Energy: Scientists Develop New Low-Cost Battery With Over 8000 Uses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/revolutionizing-renewable-energy-scientists-develop-new-low-cost-battery-with-over-8000-uses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/linkoping-university\/\">Link\u00f6ping University<\/a> in Sweden have developed a battery constructed from zinc and lignin that can be recharged over 8,000 times. This innovation aims to offer an affordable and eco-friendly battery alternative, especially for regions with limited electricity access. The findings are detailed in the journal <em><i>Energy &amp; Environmental Materials<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSolar panels have become relatively inexpensive, and many people in low-income countries have adopted them. However, near the equator, the sun sets at around 6 PM, leaving households and businesses without electricity. The hope is that this battery technology, even with lower performance than the expensive Li-ion batteries, will eventually offer a solution for these situations,\u201d says Reverant Crispin, professor of organic electronics at Link\u00f6ping University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Link\u00f6ping University in Sweden have developed a battery constructed from zinc and lignin that can be recharged over 8,000 times. This innovation aims to offer an affordable and eco-friendly battery alternative, especially for regions with limited electricity access. The findings are detailed in the journal Energy &amp; Environmental Materials. \u201cSolar panels have become [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189513","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=189513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}