{"id":26096,"date":"2019-09-21T22:20:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T03:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=26096"},"modified":"2019-09-21T22:20:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T03:20:17","slug":"think-your-wind-turbine-electricity-is-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/09\/21\/think-your-wind-turbine-electricity-is-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Your Wind Turbine Electricity Is Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have to think again. Courtesy my Arts Editor, the <em><strong>BBC<\/strong><\/em> has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-49567197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> on the use of potent climate gas <em>SF6<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sulphur hexafluoride, or SF6, is widely used in the electrical industry to prevent short circuits and accidents.<\/p>\n<p>But leaks of the little-known gas in the UK and the rest of the EU in 2017 were the equivalent of putting an extra 1.3 million cars on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Levels are rising as an unintended consequence of the green energy boom.<\/p>\n<p>Cheap and non-flammable, SF6 is a colourless, odourless, synthetic gas. It makes a hugely effective insulating material for medium and high-voltage electrical installations. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>However, the significant downside to using the gas is that it has the highest global warming potential of any known substance. It is 23,500 times more warming than carbon dioxide (CO2).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And they claim it takes quite a while to breakdown. Which all goes to prove it&#8217;s not as easy as we might wish to switch over to renewable energy sources.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have to think again. Courtesy my Arts Editor, the BBC has an article on the use of potent climate gas SF6: Sulphur hexafluoride, or SF6, is widely used in the electrical industry to prevent short circuits and accidents. But leaks of the little-known gas in the UK and \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/09\/21\/think-your-wind-turbine-electricity-is-green\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26097,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26096\/revisions\/26097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}