{"id":2769,"date":"2014-07-15T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=sand-power-a-better-battery"},"modified":"2014-07-15T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T16:32:00","slug":"sand-power-a-better-battery","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=sand-power-a-better-battery","title":{"rendered":"Sand Power: A Better Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology of the future is hard to see coming \u2013 sometimes because you can&#8217;t see it. <\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                            Advances in nanotechnology are the driving force behind longer lasting Lithium-ion batteries.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                            Currently, Lithium-ion batteries are used to power every-day technologies like cell phones, computers, cameras and cars. Their energy source is a carbon-based graphite anode, which is nothing short of polarizing. Battery life has always been a major concern with Li-ion batteries.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                            The solution is the most abundant compound in the earth&#8217;s crust: SiO2, &#8211; or \u2013 more commonly \u2013 sand. The next generation of battery technology is using sand as a source for the production of nano-silicon, an anode material for Li-ion batteries.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/EnvironmentalNewsNetwork\/~4\/ubkyKRSJL-8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2769","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sand Power: A Better Battery - Revolution<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Technology of the future is hard to see coming \u2013 sometimes because you can&#039;t see it. 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