{"id":100316,"date":"2019-12-31T01:24:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T09:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/tesla-batteries-help-power-new-solar-water-desalination-plant-in-africa"},"modified":"2019-12-31T01:24:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T09:24:28","slug":"tesla-batteries-help-power-new-solar-water-desalination-plant-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/tesla-batteries-help-power-new-solar-water-desalination-plant-in-africa","title":{"rendered":"Tesla batteries help power new solar water desalination plant in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P9I0CJSHd1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2019\/12\/21\/climate-crisis-weekly-5-eco-friendly-holiday-gift-ideas-billboard-eats-pollution\/\">GivePower<\/a> has deployed a new water desalination plant in Africa using Tesla batteries and solar power that is now providing clean water to thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>The system has been deployed in Kiunga, a rural village in Kenya where the lack of clean water had people sometimes rely on saltwater wells or even contaminated water.<\/p>\n<p>Desalination is a power-consuming process that is hard to implement in a place where power is already scarce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GivePower has deployed a new water desalination plant in Africa using Tesla batteries and solar power that is now providing clean water to thousands of people. The system has been deployed in Kiunga, a rural village in Kenya where the lack of clean water had people sometimes rely on saltwater wells or even contaminated water. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}