{"id":79836,"date":"2018-06-20T07:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T14:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/sodium-and-potassium-based-batteries-could-be-key-for-smart-grid-of-the-future"},"modified":"2018-06-21T13:01:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T20:01:48","slug":"sodium-and-potassium-based-batteries-could-be-key-for-smart-grid-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/sodium-and-potassium-based-batteries-could-be-key-for-smart-grid-of-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Sodium- and potassium-based batteries could be key for smart grid of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sodium-and-potassium-based-batteries-could-be-key-for-smart-grid-of-the-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From electric cars that travel hundreds of miles on a single charge to chainsaws as mighty as gas-powered versions, new products hit the market each year that take advantage of recent advances in battery technology.<\/p>\n<p>But that growth has led to concerns that the world\u2019s supply of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/lithium\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lithium<\/a>, the metal at the heart of many of the new rechargeable batteries, may eventually be depleted.<\/p>\n<p>Now researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found new evidence suggesting that batteries based on <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/sodium\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sodium<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/potassium\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">potassium<\/a> hold promise as a potential alternative to lithium-based batteries.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-06-sodium-potassium-based-batteries-cheap-energy.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018&#45;06-sodium-potassium-bas...nergy.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From electric cars that travel hundreds of miles on a single charge to chainsaws as mighty as gas-powered versions, new products hit the market each year that take advantage of recent advances in battery technology. But that growth has led to concerns that the world\u2019s supply of lithium, the metal at the heart of many [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79836","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=79836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79854,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79836\/revisions\/79854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}