{"id":77276,"date":"2018-03-30T08:41:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/understanding-how-society-will-change-as-we-move-to-renewable-energy-sources"},"modified":"2018-04-03T12:13:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:13:45","slug":"understanding-how-society-will-change-as-we-move-to-renewable-energy-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/understanding-how-society-will-change-as-we-move-to-renewable-energy-sources","title":{"rendered":"Understanding how society will change as we move to renewable energy sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/understanding-how-society-will-change-as-we-move-to-renewable-energy-sources.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine waking up tomorrow in a world that doesn\u2019t depend on oil.<\/p>\n<p>That might seem far-fetched, but as engineers and scientists come up with new ways to harness renewable energy, those new sources of energy may soon shape the way our societies function and how we live our daily lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to stop depending on oil long before we run out of it, so we really need to exercise our imaginations about what other futures are possible,\u201d explains University of Alberta associate professor Sheena Wilson, who heads the Future Energy Systems energy humanities theme.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-03-society-renewable-energy-sources.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;03-society-renewable-energy-sources.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine waking up tomorrow in a world that doesn\u2019t depend on oil. That might seem far-fetched, but as engineers and scientists come up with new ways to harness renewable energy, those new sources of energy may soon shape the way our societies function and how we live our daily lives. \u201cWe\u2019re going to stop depending [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77276","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77279,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77276\/revisions\/77279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}