{"id":691,"date":"2011-07-13T10:55:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T09:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=691"},"modified":"2011-07-13T10:55:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T09:55:11","slug":"update-on-the-output-from-semington-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/07\/13\/update-on-the-output-from-semington-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the output from Semington A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We raised a modest glass yesterday\u00a0to mark a generating milestone as the village's only solar generator [ <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/05\/14\/watts-up\/\">Semington<\/a> A ] passed the 1 MWh mark. \u00a0It has taken 60 days to reach this amount of energy output and it is a sobering thought that Didcot A's coal burners produce this amount in about 2 seconds \u2013 even when it's cloudy, or the sun's not shining at all. \u00a0Of course, there are about 45,000 solar generators now making a contribution, which means, (if you make some heroic assumptions about average outputs, and perform some cavalier roundings up &amp; down of figures), that, together, they produce about what I shall call a <em>Didcot Day<\/em>'s worth of electricity. \u00a0So all we need are 365 x 45,000 more Semington As, and we can close Didcot down (at least during the day). \u00a0Onwards; upwards; ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We raised a modest glass yesterday\u00a0to mark a generating milestone as the village's only solar generator [ Semington A ] passed the 1 MWh mark. \u00a0It has taken 60 days to reach this amount of energy output and it is...<\/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-691","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\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}