{"id":17392,"date":"2019-03-20T22:18:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T02:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=17392"},"modified":"2019-03-20T22:18:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T02:18:32","slug":"chile-tests-floating-solar-power-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/chile-tests-floating-solar-power-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile tests floating solar power island"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Solar island…Chile. Experimental. But hey, let’s burn some more coal, oil and gas instead, because Trump. Still… very cool idea. (Not the coal burning)<\/p>\n

The Article ‘Chile tests floating solar power island’ originally appeared on https:\/\/www.smart-energy.com\/industry-sectors\/distributed-generation\/chile-tests-floating-solar-power-island\/<\/a>
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Solar island…Chile. Experimental. But hey, let’s burn some more coal, oil and gas instead, because Trump. Still… very cool idea. (Not the coal burning) The Article ‘Chile tests floating solar power island’ originally appeared on https:\/\/www.smart-energy.com\/industry-sectors\/distributed-generation\/chile-tests-floating-solar-power-island\/ Jamie’s comments are his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-17392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16261,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/electric-vehicles-to-clean-up-beijing-depends-on-how-theyre-charged\/","url_meta":{"origin":17392,"position":0},"title":"Electric vehicles to clean up Beijing? 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