{"id":136634,"date":"2014-08-13T19:52:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T19:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=136634"},"modified":"2014-08-13T19:52:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T19:52:04","slug":"cannabis-based-batteries-charge-phone-seconds-change-way-store-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/cannabis-based-batteries-charge-phone-seconds-change-way-store-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis-Based Batteries Could Charge Your Phone in Seconds &#8211; And Change the Way We Store Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">Scientists are using industrial hemp for futuristic &#8216;supercapacitor&#8217; batteries.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>April M. Short<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On top of its vast medicinal benefits and a \u201chigh\u201d that\u2019s safer and mellower than alcohol, what if cannabis could also power a cheap, sustainable super battery and forever change the energy game? It sounds like a far-fetched dream cooked up by Cheech and Chong after a bong rip or three, but it\u2019s possible, according to a team of researchers at the University of Alberta.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">During the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acs.org\/content\/acs\/en\/pressroom\/newsreleases\/2014\/august\/could-hemp-nanosheets-topple-graphene-for-making-the-ideal-supercapacitor.html\">American Chemical Society&#8217;<\/a>s national meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday, engineering professor David Mitlin (who now works at Clarkson University in New York) presented the findings. The study he led investigates the potential for industrial hemp (the non-psychoactive cannabis plant closely related to marijuana) to aid in the creation of extremely efficient batteries called supercapacitors, or \u201csupercaps.\u201d By heating hemp fibers, the researchers were able to rearrange the plant&#8217;s carbon atoms to create thin, two-dimensional sheets, or nanosheets. Those nanosheets are then used as electrodes (electrical conductors) in the supercaps.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Prior research into supercaps broke ground using\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/innovation\/5-reasons-graphene-will-change-your-gadgets-forever-n81236\">graphene<\/a>, rather than hemp, to create the nanosheets with unmatched results for energy storage. Since then, scientists have been looking for ways to use \u201cgraphene\u2019s unique properties to build better solar cells, water filtration systems, touch-screen technology, as well as batteries and supercapacitors. The problem is it\u2019s expensive,\u201d ACS reported in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acs.org\/content\/acs\/en\/pressroom\/newsreleases\/2014\/august\/could-hemp-nanosheets-topple-graphene-for-making-the-ideal-supercapacitor.html\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/environment\/cannabis-based-batteries-could-charge-your-phone-seconds-and-change-way-we-store-energy?paging=off&amp;current_page=1#bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are using industrial hemp for futuristic &#8216;supercapacitor&#8217; batteries. April M. Short On top of its vast medicinal benefits and a \u201chigh\u201d that\u2019s safer and mellower than alcohol, what if cannabis could also power a cheap, sustainable super battery and forever change the energy game? It sounds like a far-fetched dream cooked up by Cheech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-136634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-sicence-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}