{"id":191380,"date":"2024-06-18T00:24:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T05:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/stanford-unveils-game-changing-liquid-fuel-technology-for-grid-energy-storage"},"modified":"2024-06-18T00:24:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T05:24:20","slug":"stanford-unveils-game-changing-liquid-fuel-technology-for-grid-energy-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/stanford-unveils-game-changing-liquid-fuel-technology-for-grid-energy-storage","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Unveils Game-Changing Liquid Fuel Technology for Grid Energy Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stanford-unveils-game-changing-liquid-fuel-technology-for-grid-energy-storage3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stanford scientists are enhancing liquid fuel storage methods by developing new catalytic systems for isopropanol production to optimize energy retention and release.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As California transitions rapidly to renewable fuels, it needs new technologies that can store power for the electric grid. Solar power drops at night and declines in winter. Wind power ebbs and flows. As a result, the state depends heavily on natural gas to smooth out the highs and lows of renewable power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe electric grid uses energy at the same rate that you generate it, and if you\u2019re not using it at that time, and you can\u2019t store it, you must throw it away,\u201d said Robert Waymouth, the Robert Eckles Swain Professor in Chemistry in the School of Humanities and Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford scientists are enhancing liquid fuel storage methods by developing new catalytic systems for isopropanol production to optimize energy retention and release. As California transitions rapidly to renewable fuels, it needs new technologies that can store power for the electric grid. Solar power drops at night and declines in winter. Wind power ebbs and flows. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191380","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=191380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}