{"id":2052,"date":"2024-11-02T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2024-10-22T16:39:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T20:39:53","slug":"can-trees-solve-our-battery-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/can-trees-solve-our-battery-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Trees Solve our Battery Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People use lithium batteries for a virtually endless number of reasons, but one key component of lithium batteries is graphite, and therein lies a problem. Graphite is largely supplied by China, which gets almost 60 percent of its electricity from burning coal, which creates toxic pollution that can cause extreme weather\u00a0events\u00a0and harm plants,\u00a0animals, the economy\u00a0and\u00a0our health.\u00a0 But a factory in Finland has found a way to replace graphite with a material from an abundantly available source:\u00a0 trees!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Factory in Finland replaces component of lithium batteries with new material from trees: &#8216;Abundantly available&#8217;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-tech\/lignode-battery-anode-material-sustainable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-tech\/lignode-battery-anode-material-sustainable\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781620978740\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People use lithium batteries for a virtually endless number of reasons, but one key component of lithium batteries is graphite, and therein lies a problem. Graphite is largely supplied by China, which gets almost 60 percent of its electricity from burning coal, which creates toxic pollution that can cause extreme weather\u00a0events\u00a0and harm plants,\u00a0animals, the economy\u00a0and\u00a0our&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/can-trees-solve-our-battery-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Can Trees Solve our Battery Problem?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,41,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global","category-news","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}