{"id":13885,"date":"2013-06-20T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenbuildingelements.com\/?p=9819"},"modified":"2013-06-20T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T15:05:08","slug":"a-battery-made-of-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/a-battery-made-of-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"A Battery Made of Wood?"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But don&#8217;t try it at home yet&ndash; the components in the battery tested by scientists at the University of Maryland are a thousand times thinner than a piece of paper. Using sodium instead of lithium, as many rechargeable batteries do, makes the battery environmentally benign. Sodium doesn&#8217;t store energy as efficiently as lithium, so you won&#8217;t see this battery in your cell phone &#8212; instead, its low cost and common materials would make it ideal to store huge amounts of energy at once &ndash; such as solar energy at a power plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[10897,2903,442,10898,10899,10900,3062,10901,2906,3008,10902,10903,3001,395],"class_list":["post-13885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leed-news","tag-a-battery-made-of-wood","tag-energy","tag-energy-storage","tag-energy-storage-discoveries","tag-hongli-zhu","tag-maryland-nano-center","tag-materials","tag-nanoscale-batteries","tag-news","tag-press-releases","tag-science-news","tag-sodium-instead-of-lithium","tag-sustainable-business","tag-university-of-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}