{"id":83108,"date":"2018-09-27T10:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T17:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/device-that-integrates-solar-cell-and-battery-could-store-electricity-outside-the-grid"},"modified":"2018-09-27T10:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T17:02:23","slug":"device-that-integrates-solar-cell-and-battery-could-store-electricity-outside-the-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/device-that-integrates-solar-cell-and-battery-could-store-electricity-outside-the-grid","title":{"rendered":"Device that integrates solar cell and battery could store electricity outside the grid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scientists in the United States and Saudi Arabia have harnessed the abilities of both a solar cell and a battery in one device\u2014a \u201csolar flow battery\u201d that soaks up sunlight and efficiently stores it as chemical energy for later on-demand use. Their research, published September 27 in the journal Chem<\/i>, could make electricity more accessible in remote regions of the world.<\/p>\n

While sunlight has increasingly gained appeal as a clean and abundant energy<\/a> source, it has one obvious limitation\u2014there is only so much sunlight per day, and some days are a lot sunnier than others. In order to keep solar energy practical, this means that after sunlight is converted to electrical energy, it must be stored. Normally this takes two devices\u2014a solar cell and a battery<\/a>\u2014but the solar flow battery is designed to perform like both.<\/p>\n

\u201cCompared with separated solar energy conversion and electrochemical energy storage devices, combining the functions of separated devices into a single, integrated device<\/a> could be a more efficient, scalable, compact, and cost-effective approach to utilizing solar energy,\u201d says Song Jin, a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jin and his team developed the device in collaboration with Jr-Hau He, a professor of electrical engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

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Scientists in the United States and Saudi Arabia have harnessed the abilities of both a solar cell and a battery in one device\u2014a \u201csolar flow battery\u201d that soaks up sunlight and efficiently stores it as chemical energy for later on-demand use. Their research, published September 27 in the journal Chem, could make electricity more accessible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83108","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\/83108","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=83108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}