{"id":35594,"date":"2017-03-25T23:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T06:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/liquid-energy-storage-system-gets-the-most-out-of-the-sun"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:04:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:04:25","slug":"liquid-energy-storage-system-gets-the-most-out-of-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/liquid-energy-storage-system-gets-the-most-out-of-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"Liquid energy storage system gets the \u201cMOST\u201d out of the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/liquid-energy-storage-system-gets-the-most-out-of-the-sun.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solar power is potentially the greatest single energy source outside of controlled nuclear fusion, but the Sun is literally a fair weather source that relies on daytime and clear skies. To make solar energy a reliable, 24-hour source of energy, a team of scientists at Sweden\u2019s Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg is developing a liquid energy storage medium that can not only release energy from the Sun on demand, but is also transportable.<\/p>\n<p>The Chalmers team has been working on variants of its system, called a MOlecular Solar Thermal (MOST), for over six years, with a conceptual demonstration in 2013. It differs from other attempts to store solar energy in things like <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/pratt--whitney-rocketdyne-solar-tower\/19014\/\" target=\"_blank\">heated salts<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/renewable-energy-heat-storage-empa\/47334\/\" target=\"_blank\">reversing exothermic reactions<\/a> in that the MOST system stores the energy directly in the bonds of an organic chemical.<\/p>\n<p>Join more than 500 New Atlas Plus subscribers who read our newsletter and website without ads.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/most-transportable-solar-energy-storage\/48596\/\">http:\/\/newatlas.com\/most-transportable-solar-energy-storage\/48596\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar power is potentially the greatest single energy source outside of controlled nuclear fusion, but the Sun is literally a fair weather source that relies on daytime and clear skies. To make solar energy a reliable, 24-hour source of energy, a team of scientists at Sweden\u2019s Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg is developing a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35594","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56349,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35594\/revisions\/56349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}