{"id":80960,"date":"2018-07-26T08:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/tesla-others-help-puerto-ricans-go-solar-amid-power-turmoil"},"modified":"2018-07-26T08:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T15:02:22","slug":"tesla-others-help-puerto-ricans-go-solar-amid-power-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/tesla-others-help-puerto-ricans-go-solar-amid-power-turmoil","title":{"rendered":"Tesla, others help Puerto Ricans go solar amid power turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-others-help-puerto-ricans-go-solar-amid-power-turmoil.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ten months after Hurricane Maria, Adjuntas still loses power any time a heavy rain or wind pounds the rickety power lines feeding this town high in the central mountains of Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves its 20,000 people once again in the dark, without light, fresh water or air conditioning\u2014except for a handful of homes and businesses glowing in the night thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The people of Adjuntas call those places \u201ccucubanos,\u201d an indigenous Puerto Rican firefly. They\u2019re part of a small but growing movement to provide the U.S. territory with sustainable, renewable energy independent of the decrepit <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/power\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">power<\/a> grid.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-07-tesla-puerto-ricans-solar-power.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;07-tesla-puerto-ricans-solar-power.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten months after Hurricane Maria, Adjuntas still loses power any time a heavy rain or wind pounds the rickety power lines feeding this town high in the central mountains of Puerto Rico. That leaves its 20,000 people once again in the dark, without light, fresh water or air conditioning\u2014except for a handful of homes and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,493,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-climatology","category-habitats","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80960","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=80960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}