{"id":518134,"date":"2018-09-06T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ce0fb38b92a7ef137e3297a72c3160eb"},"modified":"2018-09-06T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T18:00:10","slug":"large-wind-and-solar-farms-in-the-sahara-would-increase-heat-rain-vegetation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=518134","title":{"rendered":"Large wind and solar farms in the Sahara would increase heat, rain, vegetation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wind and solar farms are known to have local effects on heat, humidity and other factors that may be beneficial\u2014or detrimental\u2014to the regions in which they are situated. A new climate-modeling study finds that a massive wind and solar installation in the Sahara Desert and neighboring Sahel would increase local temperature, precipitation and vegetation. Overall, the researchers report, the effects would likely benefit the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind and solar farms are known to have local effects on heat, humidity and other factors that may be beneficial&mdash;or detrimental&mdash;to the regions in which they are situated. A new climate-modeling study finds that a massive wind and solar installation in the Sahara Desert and neighboring Sahel would increase local temperature, precipitation and vegetation. Overall, the researchers report, the effects would likely benefit the region.<\/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-518134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518134","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=518134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518135,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518134\/revisions\/518135"}],"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=518134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}