{"id":12773,"date":"2015-04-07T07:32:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T11:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=12773"},"modified":"2015-04-07T08:14:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T12:14:51","slug":"stanford-aluminum-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/stanford-aluminum-battery.html","title":{"rendered":"Stanford aluminum battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAnother entrant in the battery race to clean energy storage.<\/p>\n<p>\nMark Shwartz, Stanford PR, 6 April 2015,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/news\/2015\/march\/aluminum-ion-battery-033115.html\"><br \/>\nAluminum battery from Stanford offers safe alternative to conventional batteries:<br \/>\nThe new aluminum-ion battery could replace many of the lithium-ion and alkaline batteries in wide use today.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZKIcYk7E9lU\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ZKIcYk7E9lU\/mqdefault.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nStanford University scientists have invented the first<br \/>\nhigh-performance aluminum battery that&#8217;s fast-charging, long-lasting<br \/>\nand inexpensive. Researchers say the new technology offers a safe<br \/>\nalternative to many commercial batteries in wide use today.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;We have developed a rechargeable aluminum battery that may replace<br \/>\nexisting storage devices, such as alkaline batteries, which are bad<br \/>\nfor the environment, and lithium-ion batteries, which occasionally<br \/>\nburst into flames,&#8221; said Hongjie Dai, a professor of chemistry at<br \/>\nStanford. &#8220;Our new battery won&#8217;t catch fire, even if you drill<br \/>\nthrough it.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAlthough drilling would produce aluminum dust, which isn&#8217;t exactly benign.<br \/>\nHowever, point taken.<\/p>\n<p>\nPersonally, I still prefer<!--more--><\/p>\n<p> the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/organic-battery-with-no-metals-harvard-seas.html\">Harvard inorganic aqueous flow battery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut the main point is that projects like this and<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/tesla-opening-market-for-home-solar-batteries.html\">Tesla&#8217;s home-sized battery<\/a><br \/>\nare opening an energy storage research and sales market<br \/>\nthat will produce much better (cheaper, cleaner, faster)<br \/>\nstorage methods than we have now,<br \/>\nand thus facilitate converting from fossil fuels to sun, wind, and wave power<br \/>\neven faster.<\/p>\n<p>\nPS: Thanks to John Pate.<\/p>\n<p>\n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another entrant in the battery race to clean energy storage. Mark Shwartz, Stanford PR, 6 April 2015, Aluminum battery from Stanford offers safe alternative to conventional batteries: The new aluminum-ion battery could replace many of the lithium-ion and alkaline batteries in wide use today. Stanford University scientists have invented the first high-performance aluminum battery that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,289,24],"tags":[8387,2092,8704,8705,8701,8702,12,7,8758,8714,1582,6],"class_list":["post-12773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-education","category-science","category-solar","tag-aluminum","tag-battery","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-georgia","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-science","tag-solar","tag-stanford","tag-valdosta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12775,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773\/revisions\/12775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}