{"id":12721,"date":"2022-07-21T23:28:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T03:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=12721"},"modified":"2022-07-21T23:34:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T03:34:58","slug":"hawt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/hawt\/","title":{"rendered":"HAWT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_12722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12722\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220720bw-PA-windmills-farmhouse.jpg\" alt=\"wind turbines\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220720bw-PA-windmills-farmhouse.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220720bw-PA-windmills-farmhouse-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220720bw-PA-windmills-farmhouse-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220720bw-PA-windmills-farmhouse-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">view from PA 36, north of Patton, looking east.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nLarge three-bladed horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWT) with the blades upwind of the tower produce the overwhelming majority of wind power in the world today. These turbines have the main rotor shaft and electrical generator at the top of a tower, and must be pointed into the wind.<br \/>\nIn 2009, for every bird killed by a wind turbine in the US, nearly 500,000 were killed by cats and another 500,000 by buildings.&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wind_turbine#Horizontal_axis\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large three-bladed horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWT) with the blades upwind of the tower produce the overwhelming majority of wind power in the world today. These turbines have the main rotor shaft and electrical generator at the top of a tower, and must be pointed into the wind. In 2009, for every bird killed by a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/hawt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HAWT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"YIMBY!","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastoral"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12724,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12721\/revisions\/12724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}