{"id":859,"date":"2014-03-28T13:34:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T20:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/?p=859"},"modified":"2014-03-28T13:47:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T20:47:30","slug":"solar-farm-cooked-migratory-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/?p=859","title":{"rendered":"Solar Farm = Cooked Birds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Laufer took on mega-solar-energy farms in this op-ed for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcn.org\/wotr\/the-tortoise-is-collateral-damage-in-the-mojave-desert?searchterm=Peter+Laufer%5C\">High Country News<\/a><\/em> that promotes rooftop solar. \u00a0&#8220;Which should come first,&#8221; he asks, &#8220;protecting the threatened desert tortoise or creating expensive electricity for an already overpopulated California?&#8221; \u00a0In addition to the fowl (foul?), endangered Desert Tortoises are victims of the world&#8217;s largest solar plant along the Nevada-California border.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_0044.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-860\" title=\"DSC_0044\" src=\"https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_0044-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_0044-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_0044-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Laufer took on mega-solar-energy farms in this op-ed for High Country News that promotes rooftop solar. \u00a0&#8220;Which should come first,&#8221; he asks, &#8220;protecting the threatened desert tortoise or creating expensive electricity for an already overpopulated California?&#8221; \u00a0In addition to the fowl (foul?), endangered Desert Tortoises are victims of the world&#8217;s largest solar plant along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}