{"id":6369,"date":"2021-10-18T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T11:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6369"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T11:45:16","slug":"why-the-us-isnt-ready-for-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6369","title":{"rendered":"Why the US isn\u2019t ready for clean energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“In the near future, the energy made in the US is going to be much greener. The country\u2019s current goal is for solar plants alone to make nearly half of US electricity by 2050. But we can\u2019t just build solar plants where coal and gas plants used to be. They have to be built where it\u2019s \u2026 sunny. And wind turbines have to be built where it\u2019s windy. But that\u2019s not always where the people who need the power are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The distance from energy source to energy need is about to get a lot bigger. And the US is going to need more high-voltage transmission lines. A lot more. As soon as possible. While solar plants can be built relatively fast, high-voltage transmission projects can take up to 10 years. So experts say we need to start proactively building them, right now.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/videos\/22685707\/climate-change-clean-energy-high-voltage-transmission-lines<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In the near future, the energy made in the US is going to be much greener. The country\u2019s current goal is for solar plants alone to make nearly half of US electricity by 2050. But we can\u2019t just build solar plants where coal and gas plants used to be. They have to be built where it\u2019s \u2026 sunny. And wind turbines have to be built where it\u2019s windy. But that\u2019s not always where the people who need the power are.<\/p>\n

The distance from energy source to energy need is about to get a lot bigger. And the US is going to need more high-voltage transmission lines. A lot more. As soon as possible. While solar plants can be built relatively fast, high-voltage transmission projects can take up to 10 years. So experts say we need to start proactively building them, right now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[237,105,235,104,1247],"class_list":["post-6369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-clean-energy","tag-climate-change","tag-energy","tag-global-warming","tag-infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6370,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6369\/revisions\/6370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}