{"id":1686,"date":"2005-10-18T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/10\/18\/renewables-to-the-rescue\/"},"modified":"2005-10-18T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T18:12:00","slug":"renewables-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/renewables-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewables to the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"
From the US Department of Energy, a brief report<\/a> on the role renewable energy technologies, particularly solar panels and biodiesel, are playing in the post-Katrina recovery effort. Among the details: DOE and the Florida Solar Energy Center<\/a> are “providing solar electric charging stations to the town of Kiln, Mississippi, to help residents recover from Hurricane Katrina,” police in Louisiana are using solar-powered lights, and coastal towns south of New Orleans are using biodiesel provided by the Veggie Van Organization<\/a>, West Central<\/a> and the Naples, FL, City Council<\/a>. Solar power systems in particular proves a life saver in disaster situations: “They provide a source of power when the power grid is down, and they don’t require any fuel.”<\/p>\n Categories: renewable<\/a>, energy<\/a>, solar<\/a>, biodiesel<\/a>, disaster<\/a>, Katrina<\/a>, Mississippi<\/a>, Louisiana<\/a>, Florida<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the US Department of Energy, a brief report on the role renewable energy technologies, particularly solar panels and biodiesel, are playing in the post-Katrina recovery effort. Among the details: [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n