{"id":688,"date":"2009-03-12T22:29:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T22:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2009-03-12T22:29:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T22:29:16","slug":"batteries-as-good-as-petrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/batteries-as-good-as-petrol\/","title":{"rendered":"Batteries as good as petrol."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have come up with a battery design that appears to have the charactistics required for rapid charging, thus allowing fast refuelling at refuelling stations.\u00a0 There may remain issues of weight and recycling but in the balance they are looking like a good energy replacement for petrol in the transport industry.\u00a0 Clean too.\u00a0 (Though humanity still uses far more energy than than the\u00a0 sun offers so we must cut consumption anyway.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/science\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13277371\">Batteries now included by The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have come up with a battery design that appears to have the charactistics required for rapid charging, thus allowing fast refuelling at refuelling stations.\u00a0 There may remain issues of weight and recycling but in the balance they are looking like a good energy replacement for petrol in the transport industry.\u00a0 Clean too.\u00a0 (Though humanity &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/batteries-as-good-as-petrol\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Batteries as good as petrol.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-b6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}