{"id":16445,"date":"2016-08-19T12:42:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T17:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16445"},"modified":"2016-08-19T12:42:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T17:42:30","slug":"ge-is-building-americas-first-offshore-wind-farm-with-turbines-twice-as-tall-as-the-statue-of-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16445","title":{"rendered":"GE is building America&#8217;s first offshore wind farm with turbines twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>GE and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjDw_LAhsnOAhXCJ8AKHe9nBNcQFggeMAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fdwwind.com%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNGOJ_5tEXCsHWTPgW_eyHwfX-hrKg\">Deepwater Wind<\/a>, a developer of\u00a0offshore turbines, are installing\u00a0five massive wind turbines in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0They will make up the first offshore wind farm\u00a0in North America, called the Block Island Wind Farm.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past several weeks, the teams have\u00a0worked to\u00a0install the turbines 30 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, and are expected to\u00a0finish by the end of August 2016. The farm will be fully operational by\u00a0November 2016.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ge-building-wind-turbine-farm-at-block-island-2016-8\">GE is building America&#8217;s first offshore wind farm with turbines twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GE and\u00a0Deepwater Wind, a developer of\u00a0offshore turbines, are installing\u00a0five massive wind turbines in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0They will make up the first offshore wind farm\u00a0in North America, called the Block Island Wind Farm. Over the past several weeks, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16445\">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":[737],"tags":[922,776,822],"class_list":["post-16445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-big-ideas","tag-green-tech","tag-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445","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=16445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16446,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445\/revisions\/16446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}