{"id":11265,"date":"2012-09-28T13:20:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T19:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=11265"},"modified":"2012-10-02T14:15:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T20:15:14","slug":"wind-as-energy-wind-as-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/09\/28\/wind-as-energy-wind-as-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind As Energy, Wind As Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, in reporting, you stumble across something that is just plain great.\u00a0 Lately I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/09\/21\/after-the-wind-boom-a-fight-over-idahos-energy-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">focused on wind development<\/a>, and this wind map is one of those awesome things I happened to find.\u00a0 Go ahead: click on it.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11267\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hint.fm\/wind\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11267\" title=\"9-26 Wind Map\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/09\/9-26-Wind-Map-620x422.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/09\/9-26-Wind-Map-620x422.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/09\/9-26-Wind-Map-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/09\/9-26-Wind-Map.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/hint.fm\/wind\/\" target=\"_blank\">live wind map<\/a> is an art project, as the site explains.\u00a0 It&#8217;s based on data from the National Digital Forecast Database, and it&#8217;s updated hourly.<\/p>\n<p>My recent <a title=\"After The Wind Boom, A Fight Over Idaho\u2019s Energy Future\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/09\/21\/after-the-wind-boom-a-fight-over-idahos-energy-future\/\">reporting<\/a> has given me an excuse talk to landowners and lawyers and utility reps and folks at the Idaho Public Utility Commission.\u00a0 Those are fascinating conversations, but it&#8217;s complex stuff.\u00a0 That is to say: this mesmerizing, real-time representation of winds blowing all across the U.S. came as a breath of fresh air.\u00a0 Pun intended.\u00a0 Couldn&#8217;t resist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, in reporting, you stumble across something that is just plain great.\u00a0 Lately I&#8217;ve been focused on wind development, and this wind map is one of those awesome things I happened to find.\u00a0 Go ahead: click on it.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll see. The live wind map is an art project, as the site explains.\u00a0 It&#8217;s based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":11267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[68,100,43],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}