{"id":16124,"date":"2016-01-18T13:52:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T18:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=16124"},"modified":"2016-01-18T13:52:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T18:52:23","slug":"watch-a-40-storey-wind-turbine-get-built-in-3-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/watch-a-40-storey-wind-turbine-get-built-in-3-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"watch a 40-storey wind turbine get built in 3 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is essentially an ad for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.midamericanenergy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MidAmerican Energy<\/a> but it shows the work that takes place over 3 weeks to install a 40-storey (442 feet tall!) wind turbine &#8211; and it compresses it all into a 3 minute video digest:<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3\";  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"1\" data-href=\"\/250931438277026\/videos\/vb.250931438277026\/832676033435894\/?type=3\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/250931438277026\/videos\/832676033435894\/\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/250931438277026\/videos\/832676033435894\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This video explains how a wind farm is built. It takes around 3 weeks to install a turbine. A wind turbine with 30 years working life will return its investment within 3 to 4 years.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Engineering-World-250931438277026\/\">Engineering World<\/a> on Tuesday, May 5, 2015<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is essentially an ad for MidAmerican Energy but it shows the work that takes place over 3 weeks to install a 40-storey (442 feet tall!) wind turbine &#8211; and it compresses it all into a 3 minute video digest: This video explains how a wind farm is built. It takes around 3 weeks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1312,185],"series":[],"class_list":["post-16124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuffs","tag-engineering","tag-windmill"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wind-turbine.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-4c4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16393,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16124\/revisions\/16393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16124"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=16124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}