{"id":17600,"date":"2019-07-12T15:25:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T19:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=17600"},"modified":"2019-07-12T15:25:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T19:25:13","slug":"giant-batteries-and-cheap-solar-power-are-shoving-fossil-fuels-off-the-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/giant-batteries-and-cheap-solar-power-are-shoving-fossil-fuels-off-the-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sciencemag.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_main_large\/public\/ca_0712NID_Solar_Farm_California_online.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Power at 2\u00a2\/kwhr. This is how you create an economic boom&#8230;cheap, clean power.<\/p>\n<p>Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid.<\/p>\n<p>The Article &#8216;Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid&#8217; originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2019\/07\/giant-batteries-and-cheap-solar-power-are-shoving-fossil-fuels-grid\">https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2019\/07\/giant-batteries-and-cheap-solar-power-are-shoving-fossil-fuels-grid<\/a><br \/>\nJamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power at 2\u00a2\/kwhr. This is how you create an economic boom&#8230;cheap, clean power. Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid. The Article &#8216;Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid&#8217; originally appeared on https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2019\/07\/giant-batteries-and-cheap-solar-power-are-shoving-fossil-fuels-grid Jamie&#8217;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-17600","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":16217,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/are-hydrogen-cars-the-next-big-thing-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":17600,"position":0},"title":"Are Hydrogen Cars the Next Big Thing Again?","date":"April 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I still think hydrogen is the right answer...when you convert hydrogen to energy, you get pure WATER as an exhaust (which could be captured and reconverted to hydrogen and oxygen to be reused). 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