{"id":173870,"date":"2023-10-09T20:24:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T01:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/giant-wind-turbine-erected-in-just-30-hours-signifies-major-engineering-feat-this-can-save-about-500000-tons-of-standard-coal"},"modified":"2023-10-09T20:24:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T01:24:34","slug":"giant-wind-turbine-erected-in-just-30-hours-signifies-major-engineering-feat-this-can-save-about-500000-tons-of-standard-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/giant-wind-turbine-erected-in-just-30-hours-signifies-major-engineering-feat-this-can-save-about-500000-tons-of-standard-coal","title":{"rendered":"Giant wind turbine erected in just 30 hours signifies major engineering feat: \u2018This can save about 500,000 tons of standard coal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/giant-wind-turbine-erected-in-just-30-hours-signifies-major-engineering-feat-this-can-save-about-500000-tons-of-standard-coal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wind turbines are a feat of engineering. The massive structures are visually impressive and generate vast amounts of clean energy via a natural and pollution-free source.<\/p>\n<p>Because of that, you\u2019d think they take a long time to install \u2014 especially when placed far out at sea.<\/p>\n<p>However, at an offshore wind farm in Zhangpu, China, the state-owned China Three Gorges power company managed to get one up and running in just over a day, Electrek <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2023\/09\/04\/14-3-mw-offshore-wind-turbine-30-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind turbines are a feat of engineering. The massive structures are visually impressive and generate vast amounts of clean energy via a natural and pollution-free source. Because of that, you\u2019d think they take a long time to install \u2014 especially when placed far out at sea. However, at an offshore wind farm in Zhangpu, China, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173870","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}