{"id":574,"date":"2011-05-14T18:20:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T17:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=574"},"modified":"2011-05-14T18:20:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T17:20:38","slug":"watts-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/05\/14\/watts-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Watts Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After much research and deliberation, we decided to ignore the doubters (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monbiot.com\/\">George Monbiot<\/a>, perhaps), and are now helping out the National Grid by generating photo-voltaic electricity. \u00a0We went on line last week, so don't hesitate to have that extra-hot shower as the grid's capacity to support your needs and wants is just that little bit greater (and \"greener\"). \u00a0As for me, well, in future, when the \u00a0Paddington train crawls past Didcot's designer power station, I shall gaze at its gazillion tonnes of coal with a superior, zero-emissions, sort of stare \u2013 even if it is producing slightly more electricity than we are \u2013 and at night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After much research and deliberation, we decided to ignore the doubters (George Monbiot, perhaps), and are now helping out the National Grid by generating photo-voltaic electricity. \u00a0We went on line last week, so don't hesitate to have that extra-hot shower...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}