{"id":81940,"date":"2018-08-21T13:24:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/supersized-solar-farms-are-sprouting-around-the-world-and-maybe-in-space-too"},"modified":"2018-08-21T13:24:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:24:01","slug":"supersized-solar-farms-are-sprouting-around-the-world-and-maybe-in-space-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/supersized-solar-farms-are-sprouting-around-the-world-and-maybe-in-space-too","title":{"rendered":"Supersized solar farms are sprouting around the world (and maybe in space, too)"},"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\/kJYmrmYap0k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a quest to cut the cost of clean electricity, power utilities around the world are supersizing their solar farms.<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere is that more apparent than in southern Egypt, where what will be the world\u2019s largest solar farm \u2014 a vast collection of more than 5 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/see-through-solar-panels-will-put-untapped-energy-work-ncna813836\">photovoltaic panels<\/a> \u2014 is now taking shape. When it\u2019s completed next year, the $4 billion Benban solar park near Aswan will cover an area 10 times bigger than New York\u2019s Central Park and generate up to 1.8 gigawatts of electricity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/supersized-solar-farms-are-sprouting-around-world-maybe-space-too-ncna901666\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/supersized-solar-farms-...ncna901666<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a quest to cut the cost of clean electricity, power utilities around the world are supersizing their solar farms. Nowhere is that more apparent than in southern Egypt, where what will be the world\u2019s largest solar farm \u2014 a vast collection of more than 5 million photovoltaic panels \u2014 is now taking shape. When [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81940","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=81940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}