{"id":11708,"date":"2012-06-01T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=11708"},"modified":"2012-05-30T14:41:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T19:41:47","slug":"1-21-gigawatts-a-look-at-energy-in-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/06\/01\/1-21-gigawatts-a-look-at-energy-in-film\/","title":{"rendered":"1.21 Gigawatts! A Look at Energy in Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d0fS4avGf20?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of the wide-eyed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emmett_Brown\">Doc Brown<\/a> in <em>Back to the Future<\/em> or the type who&#8217;s curious how many megawatts it took to <a href=\"http:\/\/starwars.wikia.com\/wiki\/Destruction_of_Alderaan\">blow up Alderaan<\/a> in <em>Star Wars<\/em>, you&#8217;ll want to check out a special show airing on public television in Austin tonight, <a href=\"http:\/\/energyatthemovies.com\/\">Energy at the Movies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Webber, who leads the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webberenergygroup.com\/\">Webber Energy Group <\/a>at the University of Texas at Austin, takes a look at the last seventy years of film and how they portray issues of energy. It&#8217;s a lecture he&#8217;s been giving for several years, and is now even a class at UT. On the list of films are classics like <em>Deliverance<\/em> (which involves\u00a0hydroelectric\u00a0power) and<em> Zoolander<\/em> (coal mining) and <em>Syriana<\/em> (oil).<\/p>\n<p>You can catch Energy at the Movies tonight in Austin at 8 p.m. on KLRU (Channel 255, Time Warner Cable; Channel 284, Grande Communications; Channel 18-3 Over the Air), and again Sunday at 1 a.m. and 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?s=webber+energy+group\">read previous stories on the Webber Energy Group here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of the wide-eyed Doc Brown in Back to the Future or the type who&#8217;s curious how many megawatts it took to blow up Alderaan in Star Wars, you&#8217;ll want to check out a special show airing on public television in Austin tonight, Energy at the Movies. Michael Webber, who leads the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[22,21],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}