{"id":770,"date":"2012-11-13T16:35:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T16:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/?p=770"},"modified":"2012-11-13T16:36:06","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T16:36:06","slug":"grist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Grist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grist<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/list\/99-red-balloons-can-power-4500-homes\/\" target=\"_blank\">99 red balloons can power 4,500 homes<\/a><br \/>\nby Sarah Laskow<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This wins for most charming solar concept based on a one-hit wonder from the \u201880s, and maybe most charming solar concept ever: a power generating system inspired by the song \u201c99 Red Balloons.\u201d (But not by the [superior] German version, \u201c99 Luftballons,\u201d because that doesn\u2019t specify color.) Ninety-nine red balloons float over New York City\u2019s Freshkills Park, once a landfill, and create energy by using \u201ctransparent organic solar cells,\u201d according to Design Taxi. The system theoretically could power 4,500 houses.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian team that came up with this idea submitted it to the Land Art Generator Initiative Competition for Freshkills Park, a contest seeking conceptual ideas that show \u201cRenewable energy can be beautiful.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/list\/99-red-balloons-can-power-4500-homes\/\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grist 99 red balloons can power 4,500 homes by Sarah Laskow &#8220;This wins for most charming solar concept based on a one-hit wonder from the \u201880s, and maybe most charming solar concept ever: a power generating system inspired by the song \u201c99 Red Balloons.\u201d (But not by the [superior] German version, \u201c99 Luftballons,\u201d because that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40","category-press-and-articles-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}