{"id":1208,"date":"2003-08-16T20:55:40","date_gmt":"2003-08-17T00:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/16\/world-wide-grid-within-reach\/"},"modified":"2003-08-16T20:55:40","modified_gmt":"2003-08-17T00:55:40","slug":"world-wide-grid-within-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/16\/world-wide-grid-within-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"World-Wide Grid Within Reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a657'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"43\">\n<div align=\"justify\">      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/11.09\/start.html?pg=17\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/elecmap.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"10\">\n<p>\n      <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"470\">\n<p>30 years ago, Buckminster Fuller came up with a plan to<br \/>\n        plug all the world&#8217;s continents into the same electrical grid.<br \/>\n      Energy companies dismissed the notion as pie in the sky &#8211; and then proceeded<br \/>\n      to build such a grid. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/11.09\/start.html?pg=17\">Patrick<br \/>\n          Di Justo argues in Wired<\/a> that the world-wide grid is already in place, but that what is needed is a vision, and a plan, and<br \/>\n        political muscle to make it work.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/11.09\/start.html?pg=17\">with<br \/>\n        a great &quot;Infoporn&quot; pdf graphic<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 years ago, Buckminster Fuller came up with a plan to plug all the world&#8217;s continents into the same electrical grid. Energy companies dismissed the notion as pie in the sky &#8211; and then proceeded to build such a grid. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/16\/world-wide-grid-within-reach\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}