{"id":26172,"date":"2013-12-23T08:56:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T13:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=26172"},"modified":"2013-12-28T09:41:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T14:41:53","slug":"harlem-startup-featured-scientific-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=26172","title":{"rendered":"Harlem based battery startup featured in Scientific American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-23-at-10.23.50-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26174\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-23-at-10.23.50-AM.png\" width=\"305\" height=\"93\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-23-at-10.23.50-AM.png 305w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-23-at-10.23.50-AM-300x91.png 300w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-23-at-10.23.50-AM-100x30.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"line-height: 1.7;\" href=\"http:\/\/urbanelectricpower.com\/\">Urban Electric Power<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444; line-height: 1.7;\">\u00a0is a Harlem based battery startup located 10 blocks from City College and which has received funding from the\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.7;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=arpa-e-keep-us-lead-in-clean-energy-revolution\">Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444; line-height: 1.7;\">\u00a0(ARPA\u2013E). <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company hopes to turn the familiar alkaline battery into a cheap way to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=energy-storage-role-in-electric-grid\">store the electricity<\/a>\u00a0from massive wind farms.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444; line-height: 1.7;\">What sets Urban Electric apart from other similarly focussed startups is\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #444444; line-height: 1.7;\">the safety of the underlying materials, which are not\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #444444; line-height: 1.7;\">caustic, volatile or otherwise dangerous. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Urban Electric and other like startups funded by ARPA-E a trying to build a big battery costing less than $100 per kilowatt-hour of storage which would lower the cost of stored making it more available. \u00a0Says Urban Electric:\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Storage gives you massive flexibility,&#8221; Moniz notes, adding that it can help improve reliability and resilience as well by providing backup power. &#8220;The issue has been the cost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more details: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=alkaline-batteries-for-renewable-energy-storage-at-urban-electric-power\">http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=alkaline-batteries-for-renewable-energy-storage-at-urban-electric-power<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Electric Power\u00a0is a Harlem based battery startup located 10 blocks from City College and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12756786,186,6,124716316,124715920],"tags":[77809719,124718158,13611479,124716322,44368477,124716044,124715961,93470272,124715498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26172"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26190,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26172\/revisions\/26190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}