{"id":1621,"date":"2006-10-18T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2006-10-18T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T16:43:00","slug":"google-to-use-solar-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/google-to-use-solar-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to use solar energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/17\/technology\/17solar.html?ex=1318737600&#038;en=9d5dd6d7acdd5d7d&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">Google has announced plans<\/A> to install 9,200 solar cells \u00e2\u20ac\u201d capable of powering 1,000 average California homes at their California headquarters to power 30 percent of the company&#8217;s energy needs.<br \/>\nI applaud them.<br \/>\nOutsiders estimate the solar cells will cost nearly $10 million to install, but should pay for themselves within the next 5-10 years.<br \/>\nWe talked about solar power while we were in Nigeria.<br \/>\nThe national electric company is so up and down that there&#8217;s no real reliable energy source unless you can afford a large generator yourself.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m hoping to do more research and see if solar power might be a viable alternative for some of the boys homes or ministries there.<br \/>\nWith as little electricity as they use, it may be a worthwhile investment.<br \/>\nWho knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced plans to install 9,200 solar cells \u00e2\u20ac\u201d capable of powering 1,000 average California homes at their California headquarters to power 30 percent of the company&#8217;s energy needs. I applaud them. Outsiders estimate the solar cells will cost nearly $10 million to install, but should pay for themselves within the next 5-10 years. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/google-to-use-solar-energy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google to use solar energy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-q9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}