{"id":211294,"date":"2025-04-13T05:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T10:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/carbon-battery-startup-aims-to-make-energy-storage-circular"},"modified":"2025-04-13T05:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T10:02:22","slug":"carbon-battery-startup-aims-to-make-energy-storage-circular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/carbon-battery-startup-aims-to-make-energy-storage-circular","title":{"rendered":"Carbon battery startup aims to make energy storage circular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/carbon-battery-startup-aims-to-make-energy-storage-circular.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian startup SorbiForce said they\u2019ve created the world\u2019s first sustainable battery using four key ingredients: carbon, water, salt and agricultural waste.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the current way energy storage systems and batteries are designed, they have really big sustainability implications for the planet,\u201d Kevin Drolet, SorbiForce\u2019s CMO, told pv magazine USA. He explained that material scientist Serhii Kaminskyi, SorbiForce\u2019s CEO and co-founder, had long been bothered by those environmental ramifications.<\/p>\n<p>Kaminskyi pulled together a team of experts in the late 2010s to work on solving the problem. This ultimately landed them a spot in the University of Arizona Center for Innovation startup incubator following the start of the Russia-Ukraine war through the U.S. Department of State\u2019s Global Innovation through Science and Technology initiative.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SorbiForce, a Ukrainian energy storage company now in Arizona, has developed metal-free organic batteries made entirely from agricultural waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian startup SorbiForce said they\u2019ve created the world\u2019s first sustainable battery using four key ingredients: carbon, water, salt and agricultural waste. \u201cWith the current way energy storage systems and batteries are designed, they have really big sustainability implications for the planet,\u201d Kevin Drolet, SorbiForce\u2019s CMO, told pv magazine USA. He explained that material scientist Serhii [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211294","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}