{"id":34421,"date":"2017-02-11T10:23:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T18:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/this-new-material-can-turn-sunlight-heat-and-movement-into-electricity"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:31:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:31:24","slug":"this-new-material-can-turn-sunlight-heat-and-movement-into-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/this-new-material-can-turn-sunlight-heat-and-movement-into-electricity","title":{"rendered":"This New Material Can Turn Sunlight, Heat, and Movement Into Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-new-material-can-turn-sunlight-heat-and-movement-into-electricity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered that a certain type of mineral has the right properties to extract energy from multiple sources at the same time \u2014 turning solar, heat, and kinetic energy into electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The mineral is a type of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perovskite_structure\">perovskite<\/a> \u2014 a family of minerals with a specific crystal structure \u2014 and this is the first time researchers have identified one that can convert energy from all three sources at room temperature.<\/p>\n<p>Since the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/low-cost-perovskite-solar-cell-sets-efficiency-record\">perovskite solar cell<\/a> was invented back in 2009, these minerals have been positioned as the \u2018next big thing\u2019 in renewable energy technology.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-new-material-can-turn-sunlight-heat-and-movement-into-electricity-all-at-once\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-new-material-can-turn-sunli...ll-at-once<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered that a certain type of mineral has the right properties to extract energy from multiple sources at the same time \u2014 turning solar, heat, and kinetic energy into electricity. The mineral is a type of perovskite \u2014 a family of minerals with a specific crystal structure \u2014 and this is the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34421","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\/34421","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58762,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34421\/revisions\/58762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}