{"id":2152,"date":"2010-07-02T08:14:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T12:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:52:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:52:35","slug":"national-geographic-looks-at-the-future-of-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/national-geographic-looks-at-the-future-of-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic looks at the future of energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_2154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2154\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/going-off-the-grid-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/going-off-the-grid-1-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"going-off-the-grid-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/going-off-the-grid-1-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/going-off-the-grid-1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> Peter Essick\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>The July issue of the National Geographic magazine approaches a very important topic: <a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2010\/07\/power-grid\/achenbach-text\">energy<\/a>. In the face of the Gulf oil spill tragedy, it has become more pressing than ever to seek out green, clean alternatives to fossil fuel.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The grid, they say, is an old-fashioned thing. &#8220;The electrical grid is still basically 1960s technology,&#8221; says physicist Phillip F. Schewe, author of The Grid. &#8220;The Internet has passed it by. The meter on the side of your house is 1920s technology.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--adsense#300--><\/p>\n<p>The magazine looks at the proposed upgrades that will allow the current electrical grid to incorporate clean energy and improve reliability. It also looks at the ideas to create a smarter grid that will enable us to become more aware of our electricity consumption and, consequently, more energy-efficient.<\/p>\n<p>The article includes an<a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2010\/07\/power-grid\/grid-interactive\"> interactive map<\/a> that shows locations across the country where renewable energy has the most potential. For example, Texas has more wind-generation capacity than the grid can handle. Therefore, proposed new transmission lines could help Texas deliver its wind energy to cities in the East and West.<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The July issue of the National Geographic magazine approaches a very important topic: energy. In the face of the Gulf oil spill tragedy, it has become more pressing than ever to seek out green, clean alternatives to fossil fuel. Related Posts:No Related Posts Found! Go find some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,224,39,394],"tags":[1738,396,395],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-energy","category-clean-energy","category-energy-efficiency","category-grid","tag-clean-energy","tag-grid-2","tag-national-geographic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9562,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/9562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}