{"id":214435,"date":"2025-05-21T13:07:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/water-based-flow-battery-could-break-solar-storage-barrier-for-homeowners"},"modified":"2025-05-21T13:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:07:56","slug":"water-based-flow-battery-could-break-solar-storage-barrier-for-homeowners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/water-based-flow-battery-could-break-solar-storage-barrier-for-homeowners","title":{"rendered":"Water-based flow battery could break solar storage barrier for homeowners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/water-based-flow-battery-could-break-solar-storage-barrier-for-homeowners2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers have developed a water-based battery that could help Australian households store rooftop solar energy more safely, cheaply and efficiently than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>Their next-generation \u201cflow battery\u201d opens the door to compact, high-performance battery systems for homes and is expected to be much cheaper than current $10,000 lithium-ion systems.<\/p>\n<p>Flow batteries have been around for decades but have traditionally been used in large-scale energy storage due to their large size and slow charge speeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers have developed a water-based battery that could help Australian households store rooftop solar energy more safely, cheaply and efficiently than ever before. Their next-generation \u201cflow battery\u201d opens the door to compact, high-performance battery systems for homes and is expected to be much cheaper than current $10,000 lithium-ion systems. Flow batteries have been around for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214435","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\/214435","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}