{"id":599,"date":"2017-05-11T15:34:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T19:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=599"},"modified":"2017-05-11T15:34:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T19:34:57","slug":"from-the-web-higher-cheaper-sleeker-wind-turbines-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/05\/11\/from-the-web-higher-cheaper-sleeker-wind-turbines-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Higher, cheaper, sleeker: wind turbines of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-600\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-11-at-1.41.20-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1732\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-11-at-1.41.20-PM.png 1732w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-11-at-1.41.20-PM-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-11-at-1.41.20-PM-768x352.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-11-at-1.41.20-PM-1024x469.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-11-at-1.41.20-PM-500x229.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>With the UK government ending subsidies for onshore wind and the Trump administration pushing for a return to coal, you might think the wind power revolution had run out of puff.<\/p>\n<p>Far from it.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of energy from offshore wind in Britain has fallen by a third since 2012, and wind accounts for over 40% of new capacity in the US, representing an annual investment of $13 billion. Now next-generation wind technologies promise to make wind energy safer and more affordable \u2013 if they can make the difficult jump from research prototypes to commercial products.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sustainable-business\/gallery\/2017\/may\/08\/renewables-wind-energy-turbines-tech-kites-drones-in-pictures\"><strong>Learn more<\/strong><\/a><em> (via The Guardian)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the UK government ending subsidies for onshore wind and the Trump administration pushing for a return to coal, you might think the wind power revolution had run out of puff. Far from it. The cost of energy from offshore wind in Britain has fallen by a third since 2012, and wind accounts for over &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/05\/11\/from-the-web-higher-cheaper-sleeker-wind-turbines-of-the-future\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Higher, cheaper, sleeker: wind turbines of the future&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425622],"tags":[41478,4433],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-renewables","tag-innovation","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-9F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}