{"id":87339,"date":"2019-02-02T21:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T05:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/sun-in-a-box-a-new-way-to-store-renewable-energy-for-the-grid"},"modified":"2019-02-02T21:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T05:42:21","slug":"sun-in-a-box-a-new-way-to-store-renewable-energy-for-the-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/sun-in-a-box-a-new-way-to-store-renewable-energy-for-the-grid","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSun in a Box\u201d: A New Way to Store Renewable Energy for the Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sun-in-a-box-a-new-way-to-store-renewable-energy-for-the-grid2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new design stores heat generated by excess electricity from solar or wind power in large tanks of white-hot molten silicon, and then converts the light from the glowing metal back into electricity when it\u2019s needed. The researchers estimate that such a system would be much more affordable than lithium-ion batteries, which have been proposed as a viable, though expensive, method to store renewable energy. They also estimate that the system would cost about half as much as pumped hydroelectric storage\u2014the cheapest form of grid-scale energy storage so far.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Delivering solar- or wind-generated power on demand, the system, which uses molten silicon, should be cheaper than other leading options.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicdesign.com\/power\/sun-box-new-way-store-renewable-energy-grid\">https:\/\/www.electronicdesign.com\/power\/sun-box-new-way-store...nergy-grid<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new design stores heat generated by excess electricity from solar or wind power in large tanks of white-hot molten silicon, and then converts the light from the glowing metal back into electricity when it\u2019s needed. The researchers estimate that such a system would be much more affordable than lithium-ion batteries, which have been proposed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87339","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\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}