{"id":17189,"date":"2018-11-04T16:05:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T22:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17189"},"modified":"2018-11-04T16:05:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T22:05:39","slug":"a-powerful-new-battery-could-give-us-electric-planes-that-dont-pollute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17189","title":{"rendered":"A powerful new battery could give us electric planes that don\u2019t pollute"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Planes are\u00a0rarely\u00a0used for regional travel,\u00a0representing less than\u00a01% of trips under 500 miles, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bts.gov\/archive\/publications\/america_on_the_go\/long_distance_transportation_patterns\/entire\">US Bureau of Transportation Statistics<\/a>. Airlines have shied away from shorter flights largely because most of the fuel is burned during takeoff, meaning longer routes are far more economical. And given the high costs and hassles of flying, consumers largely opt for cars, trains, or buses instead for this travel range.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/612351\/top-battery-scientists-have-a-plan-to-electrify-flight-and-slash-airline-emissions\/\">A powerful new battery could give us electric planes that don\u2019t pollute &#8211; MIT Technology Review<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planes are\u00a0rarely\u00a0used for regional travel,\u00a0representing less than\u00a01% of trips under 500 miles, according to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Airlines have shied away from shorter flights largely because most of the fuel is burned during takeoff, meaning longer routes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[790,776,633],"class_list":["post-17189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-batteries","tag-green-tech","tag-market-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17190,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17189\/revisions\/17190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}