{"id":78947,"date":"2018-05-23T08:02:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T15:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/single-system-solar-tech-cuts-clean-energy-costs-in-half"},"modified":"2018-05-26T07:06:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:06:53","slug":"single-system-solar-tech-cuts-clean-energy-costs-in-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/single-system-solar-tech-cuts-clean-energy-costs-in-half","title":{"rendered":"Single-system solar tech cuts clean energy costs in half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/single-system-solar-tech-cuts-clean-energy-costs-in-half.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Generating power from the sun isn\u2019t the problem. The technology has been there for decades. Storing that power efficiently, however, has been a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why the Department of Energy has awarded $3 million to engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin to overcome the Achilles\u2019 heel of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+power\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar power<\/a> story since Day One: how to store its energy.<\/p>\n<p>To date, most major <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar energy<\/a> systems are bulky and expensive, with inefficient storage capacity. Energy coming from existing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+power+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar power systems<\/a> must be housed in storage systems outside of the generators that create the power. In other words, two separate systems are required to ensure successful operation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-05-single-system-solar-tech-energy.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;05-single-system-solar-tech-energy.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generating power from the sun isn\u2019t the problem. The technology has been there for decades. Storing that power efficiently, however, has been a challenge. That\u2019s why the Department of Energy has awarded $3 million to engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin to overcome the Achilles\u2019 heel of the solar power story since [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78947","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79040,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78947\/revisions\/79040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}