{"id":373142,"date":"2017-09-14T07:50:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T11:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=352ac3497f97b3fade42a554d6cb05e2"},"modified":"2017-09-14T07:50:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T11:50:02","slug":"how-solar-power-can-protect-the-us-military-from-threats-to-the-electric-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=373142","title":{"rendered":"How solar power can protect the US military from threats to the electric grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the U.S. military increases its use of drones in surveillance and combat overseas, the danger posed by a threat back at home grows. Many drone flights are piloted by soldiers located in the U.S., even when the drones are flying over Yemen or Iraq or Syria. Those pilots and their control systems depend on the American electricity grid \u2013 large, complex, interconnected and very vulnerable to attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the U.S. military increases its use of drones in surveillance and combat overseas, the danger posed by a threat back at home grows. Many drone flights are piloted by soldiers located in the U.S., even when the drones are flying over Yemen or Iraq or Syria. Those pilots and their control systems depend on the American electricity grid &ndash; large, complex, interconnected and very vulnerable to attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373143,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373142\/revisions\/373143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}