{"id":3199,"date":"2010-08-09T21:47:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T04:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2010-08-09T21:47:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T04:47:50","slug":"silvio-the-renewable-energy-rich-playboys-of-portugal-await-your-electric-ferraris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/08\/09\/silvio-the-renewable-energy-rich-playboys-of-portugal-await-your-electric-ferraris\/","title":{"rendered":"Silvio, the renewable energy rich playboys of Portugal await your electric Ferraris."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/10\/science\/earth\/10portugal.html?ref=world&#038;pagewanted=print\">NYT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nearly 45 percent of the electricity in Portugal\u2019s grid will come from renewable sources this year, up from 17 percent just five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Land-based wind power \u2014 this year deemed \u201cpotentially competitive\u201d with fossil fuels by the International Energy Agency in Paris \u2014 has expanded sevenfold in that time. And Portugal expects in 2011 to become the first country to inaugurate a national network of charging stations for electric cars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen all the smiles \u2014 you know: It\u2019s a good dream. It can\u2019t compete. It\u2019s too expensive,\u201d said Prime Minister Jos\u00e9 S\u00f3crates, recalling the way Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, mockingly offered to build him an electric Ferrari. Mr. S\u00f3crates added, \u201cThe experience of Portugal shows that it is possible to make these changes in a very short time.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT: Nearly 45 percent of the electricity in Portugal\u2019s grid will come from renewable sources this year, up from 17 percent just five years ago. Land-based wind power \u2014 this year deemed \u201cpotentially competitive\u201d with fossil fuels by the International Energy Agency in Paris \u2014 has expanded sevenfold in that time. And Portugal expects&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,12,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}