{"id":45278,"date":"2026-05-15T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=45278"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:28:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:28:01","slug":"nearly-80-times-cheaper-than-lithium-china-is-working-on-ultra-affordable-iron-battery-that-can-run-16-years-without-degrading-using-one-of-the-most-abundant-elements-on-earth-to-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=45278","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nearly 80 times cheaper than lithium&#8217;: China is working on ultra affordable iron battery that can run 16 years without degrading \u2014 using one of the most abundant elements on Earth to store power and a water-based electrolyte system that cannot explode"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/pro\/nearly-80-times-cheaper-than-lithium-china-is-working-on-ultra-affordable-iron-battery-that-can-run-16-years-without-degrading-using-one-of-the-most-abundant-elements-on-earth-to-store-power-and-a-water-based-electrolyte-system-that-cannot-explode?ICID=ref_fark\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GuGKTLN2F2nCGCtzUm3AfJ.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:170px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This could be a solution to the world&#8217;s growing energy storage needs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/pro\/nearly-80-times-cheaper-than-lithium-china-is-working-on-ultra-affordable-iron-battery-that-can-run-16-years-without-degrading-using-one-of-the-most-abundant-elements-on-earth-to-store-power-and-a-water-based-electrolyte-system-that-cannot-explode\">&#8216;Nearly 80 times cheaper than lithium&#8217;: China is working on ultra affordable iron battery that can run 16 years without degrading \u2014 using one of the most abundant elements on Earth to store power and a water-based electrolyte system that cannot explode<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This could be a solution to the world&#8217;s growing energy storage needs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1144,150,2257],"class_list":["post-45278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-batteries","tag-china","tag-iron","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45281,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45278\/revisions\/45281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}