{"id":319,"date":"2009-05-22T13:14:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T21:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2009-05-22T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T21:14:13","slug":"wind-farms-hot-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wind-farms-hot-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind farms &#8212; hot air?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The media has a fascination with &#8220;alternative&#8221; and &#8220;renewable&#8221; energy, such as wind power. What if wind power is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-1172230\/Are-wind-farms-lot-hot-air--windy.html\">bunch of hot air<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>> &#8230;if we wanted to go totally green, we&#8217;d have to carpet the [United Kingdom] with more windmills than exist in the whole world.<\/p>\n<p>Undoubtedly, we need more power plants in the future. Utilizing windmills here and there sounds okay, but I don&#8217;t want to see an entire countryside covered with them. I believe that nuclear power will be the most cost effective form of mass power, the cleanest and [the safest](http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=nuclear+power+safest) in terms of the cost of human life &#8212; compared to coal and hydro electric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media has a fascination with &#8220;alternative&#8221; and &#8220;renewable&#8221; energy, such as wind power. What if wind power is a bunch of hot air? > &#8230;if we wanted to go totally green, we&#8217;d have to carpet the [United Kingdom] with more windmills than exist in the whole world. Undoubtedly, we need more power plants in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wind-farms-hot-air\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wind farms &#8212; hot air?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}