{"id":364625,"date":"2020-07-25T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T05:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=364625"},"modified":"2020-07-25T11:06:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T05:36:21","slug":"in-the-future-solar-and-wind-will-be-everywhere-you-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/in-the-future-solar-and-wind-will-be-everywhere-you-look\/","title":{"rendered":"In the future, solar and wind will be everywhere you look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my four-year-old son, electricity must seem magic\u2014this invisible stuff that comes out of the wall sockets to power the fridge, to light up the TV, or run his favorite toy, an electric piano. He has no personal experience of where it comes from, even if he does see the wires on which it travels.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us never see how electricity is made. This is because most of it is generated in a relatively small number of very large power plants, situated miles away from where we live and work. However as we transition to a zero-carbon economy, wind and solar power is going to get a whole lot more visible. In time, power stations are likely to become as ubiquitous and familiar as gas stations are today.<\/p>\n<p>Wind and photovoltaic systems are modular technologies, composed of many identical panels or turbines. This means, for renewables, bigger is not always better. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my four-year-old son, electricity must seem magic\u2014this invisible stuff that comes out of the wall sockets to power the fridge, to light up the TV, or run his favorite toy, an electric piano. He has no personal experience of where it comes from, even if he does see the wires on which it travels. Many of us never see how electricity is made. This is because most of it is generated in a relatively small number of very large power plants, situated miles away from where we live and work. However as we transition to a zero-carbon economy, wind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}