{"id":71398,"date":"2017-07-31T08:32:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T15:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/alphabets-moonshot-lab-has-a-new-project-to-store-renewable-energy"},"modified":"2017-08-02T21:01:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T04:01:36","slug":"alphabets-moonshot-lab-has-a-new-project-to-store-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/alphabets-moonshot-lab-has-a-new-project-to-store-renewable-energy","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet\u2019s \u2018moonshot\u2019 lab has a new project to store renewable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alphabets-moonshot-lab-has-a-new-project-to-store-renewable-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(A rendering of what X\u2019s renewable energy storage plant would look like. X) X, the \u201cmoonshot\u201d division of Google\u2019s parent company Alphabet that has worked on everything from self-driving cars and delivery drones, has a new public project: storing renewable energy so it doesn\u2019t go to waste.<\/p>\n<p>The team working on the project is codenamed \u201cMalta,\u201d and it aims to efficiently store energy from solar and wind using salts. That way, renewable energy can still be used even if solar panels or wind turbines can\u2019t collect energy.<\/p>\n<p>Malta is part of X\u2019s Foundry, which explores early-stage projects. It\u2019s not an \u201cofficial\u201d project like Project Wing (drone delivery) or Project Loon (high-altitude balloons that beam the internet to the surface). X is announcing Malta now because it wants to build a prototype plant for testing how storing renewable energy can feed a power grid. It\u2019s accepting applications for potential partners <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.company\/contact\/?utm_source=malta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/alphabets-moonshot-lab-project-store-145127999.html?utm_content=bufferfa4b6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=yahoofinance\">https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/alphabets-moonshot-lab-projec...hoofinance<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(A rendering of what X\u2019s renewable energy storage plant would look like. X) X, the \u201cmoonshot\u201d division of Google\u2019s parent company Alphabet that has worked on everything from self-driving cars and delivery drones, has a new public project: storing renewable energy so it doesn\u2019t go to waste. The team working on the project is codenamed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,418,6,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-internet","category-robotics-ai","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71398","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71586,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71398\/revisions\/71586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}