{"id":25549,"date":"2024-08-03T09:18:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T03:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25549"},"modified":"2025-04-07T18:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:16:26","slug":"metal-air-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/metal-air-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal-air batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Metal-air batteries:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>energy storage<\/strong> system based on electrochemical charge\/discharge reactions that occur between a positive <strong>\u201cAir Electrode<\/strong>\u201d (cathode) and a negative \u201c<strong>Metal Electrode<\/strong>\u201d (anode).<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>negative electrode<\/strong> is typically made of metals such as Li, Zn, Al, Fe, or Na, while the <strong>positive <\/strong>usually contains some form of <strong>porous carbon material<\/strong> and a catalyst.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advantages :<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>These batteries <strong>have higher energy density<\/strong> than a lithium-ion battery.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Accessibility:<\/strong> Metal-air batteries <strong>use readily available metals<\/strong> in India, making them more accessible than lithium-ion batteries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cost-Effective<\/strong>: Producing these batteries locally reduces imports.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Environment-Friendly:<\/strong> Metal-air batteries <strong>are recyclable<\/strong>, offering a safer alternative to lithium-ion batteries that pose environmental hazards.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lightweight:<\/strong> Metals like aluminum are lightweight and can provide comparable or even higher energy density than lithium-ion batteries, making them an attractive choice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Applications: <\/strong>Due to their high scalability and energy density, M-Air batteries can be used in a large variety of applications:\n<ul>\n<li>It is used in large-scale stationary <strong>energy storage applications<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Transportation<\/li>\n<li>Renewable generation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Lithium?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a chemical element with the symbol Li and atomic number 3. Classified as an alkali metal, lithium is a solid at room temperature. It is the lightest of the solid elements. It is soft, white, and lustrous. It reacts vigorously with water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2039699#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Durable efficient battery for energy solutions in remote sub-zero conditions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metal-air batteries is an energy storage system based on electrochemical charge\/discharge reactions that occur between a positive \u201cAir Electrode\u201d (cathode) and a negative \u201cMetal Electrode\u201d (anode).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}