{"id":9744,"date":"2014-01-04T20:34:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T04:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9744"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:11:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:11:33","slug":"darpa-is-building-a-vanishing-battery-this-post-will-self-destruct-in-5-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/darpa-is-building-a-vanishing-battery-this-post-will-self-destruct-in-5-seconds","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Is Building A Vanishing Battery: This Post Will Self Destruct In 5 Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"user\"><a class=\"exit_trigger_set\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/williampentland\/\">William Pentland<\/a><span class=\"desc\">, Contributor \u2014 Forbes<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"user\">Considering that batteries are typically designed for maximum longevity, it may seem odd to learn that the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is ramping up research into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militaryaerospace.com\/articles\/2014\/01\/sri-darpa-vapr.html\">self-destructing batteries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"user\">Odd or not, DARPA awarded a $4.7 million contract last week to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sri.com\">SRI International<\/a>, an independent research organization based in Menlo Park, <a class=\"exit_trigger_set\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/companies\/ca\/\">CA<\/a> <span class=\"quotecard_hook initialized\" data-ticker=\"CA\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" data-type=\"organization\" data-naturalid=\"fred\/company\/742\" data-quotes-closing=\"33.14\" data-quotes-now=\"33.1101\"><span class=\"wrapper decrease\"><a class=\"exit_trigger_set\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/companies\/ca\/\"><span class=\"ticker\">CA<\/span> <span class=\"change\">-0.09%<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>, to develop a transient power supply that, when triggered, becomes unobservable to the human eye.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/williampentland\/2014\/01\/02\/darpa-is-building-a-vanishing-battery-this-post-will-self-destruct-in-5-seconds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"user\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Pentland, Contributor \u2014 Forbes Considering that batteries are typically designed for maximum longevity, it may seem odd to learn that the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is ramping up research into self-destructing batteries. Odd or not, DARPA awarded a $4.7 million contract last week to SRI International, an independent research organization based [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65077,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744\/revisions\/65077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}