{"id":11963,"date":"2014-08-02T13:35:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T20:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11963"},"modified":"2017-04-26T12:59:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:59:42","slug":"how-a-solar-powered-water-wheel-can-clean-50000-pounds-of-trash-per-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/how-a-solar-powered-water-wheel-can-clean-50000-pounds-of-trash-per-day","title":{"rendered":"How a Solar-Powered Water Wheel Can Clean 50,000 Pounds of Trash Per Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Baker \u2014 Nation of Change<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A large wheel has been strolling the Baltimore Inner Harbor the past month, doing its best to clean the trash that has littered a city landmark and tourist attraction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It\u2019s called the <a href=\"http:\/\/healthyharborbaltimore.org\/whats-happening-now\/water-wheel\"><span class=\"s1\">Inner Harbor Water Wheel<\/span><\/a>, and though it moves slow, it has the capability to collect 50,000 pounds of trash. The timing for John Kellett\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/03\/06\/states-solar-energy-monumental-year\/\"><span class=\"s1\">solar-powered<\/span><\/a> creation is crucial\u2014hands and crab nets simply can\u2019t keep up with the growing amount of wrappers, cigarette butts, bottles and other debris carried from storm drains into the harbor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationofchange.org\/how-solar-powered-water-wheel-can-clean-50000-pounds-trash-day-1405609241\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Baker \u2014 Nation of Change A large wheel has been strolling the Baltimore Inner Harbor the past month, doing its best to clean the trash that has littered a city landmark and tourist attraction. It\u2019s called the Inner Harbor Water Wheel, and though it moves slow, it has the capability to collect 50,000 pounds [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1633,1508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-solar-power","category-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56252,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963\/revisions\/56252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}