{"id":9214,"date":"2013-01-31T23:22:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T05:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9214"},"modified":"2013-01-31T23:22:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T05:22:34","slug":"supersized-wind-turbines-head-out-to-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9214","title":{"rendered":"Supersized Wind Turbines Head Out to Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The new turbines generate six megawatts of power in good wind. Several companies are designing 10- and even 15-megawatt machines with 100-meter blades. These blades would reach two-thirds of the way to the roof of the Empire State Building. The push to supersize wind turbines is part of an effort to <strong>reduce installation and maintenance costs<\/strong>, which can be far higher than the cost of the turbines themselves. The pictures in this slideshow give a sense of just why installation is so costly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/510566\/supersized-wind-turbines-head-out-to-sea\/\">Supersized Wind Turbines Head Out to Sea | MIT Technology Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new turbines generate six megawatts of power in good wind. Several companies are designing 10- and even 15-megawatt machines with 100-meter blades. These blades would reach two-thirds of the way to the roof of the Empire State Building. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9214\">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-9214","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\/9214","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=9214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}