{"id":3574,"date":"2009-04-16T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2009-04-16T11:55:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:55:59","slug":"nice-ideabut-you-need-to-think-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/3574","title":{"rendered":"Nice Idea&#8230;But You Need To Think Bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Slashdot&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"generaltitle\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<h3>Florida To Build Solar-Powered City<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"topic\"><strong>Posted by \t \tsamzenpus  \ton Thursday April 16, @07:57AM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>from the <strong>sunny-side-of-the-street<\/strong> dept.<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=232\"><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=126\"> \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"intro\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/\">Mike<\/a> writes <em>&quot;The sunny state of Florida just announced that they will begin construction this year on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/2009\/04\/15\/florida-announces-worlds-first-solar-powered-city\/\">world&#8217;s first solar-powered city<\/a>. A collaboration between Florida Power &amp; Light and development firm Kitson &amp; Partners, the 17,000 acre city will generate all of its electrical needs via a 75 megawatt, $300 million solar-powered generator. The city will also use smart grid technology to manage its power and allow all inhabitants of the community to monitor their energy consumption.&quot;<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice idea.&nbsp; Sounds&#8230;vaguely familiar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Experimental_Prototype_Community_of_Tomorrow_(concept)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"224\" width=\"550\" alt=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/images\/epcot_conceptual_rendering-sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">It&#8217;s not just about how the energy is produced.&nbsp; It&#8217;s about how it is used.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Slashdot&#8230; Florida To Build Solar-Powered City Posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 16, @07:57AM from the sunny-side-of-the-street dept. &nbsp; Mike writes &quot;The sunny state of Florida just announced that they will begin construction this year on the world&#8217;s first solar-powered city. A collaboration between Florida Power &amp; Light and development firm Kitson &amp; Partners, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[107,119,85],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-disney","tag-epcot","tag-tech-geeking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}