{"id":511596,"date":"2022-08-04T10:44:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T05:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=511596"},"modified":"2022-08-04T10:44:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T05:14:26","slug":"low-cost-sustainable-alternative-to-lithium-ion-batteries-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/low-cost-sustainable-alternative-to-lithium-ion-batteries-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-cost, sustainable alternative to lithium-ion batteries found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calcium ions could be used as a greener, more efficient, and less expensive energy storage alternative to lithium-ions in batteries because of its abundance and low cost, according to a study. The researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the US noted that long-term use of lithium-ion batteries comes with issues such as scarcity, high prices, and safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vast majority of rechargeable battery products are based on lithium-ion technology, which is the gold standard in terms of performance,&#8221; said Nikhil Koratkar, a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calcium ions could be used as a greener, more efficient, and less expensive energy storage alternative to lithium-ions in batteries because of its abundance and low cost, according to a study. The researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the US noted that long-term use of lithium-ion batteries comes with issues such as scarcity, high prices, and safety concerns. &#8220;The vast majority of rechargeable battery products are based on lithium-ion technology, which is the gold standard in terms of performance,&#8221; said Nikhil Koratkar, a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}