{"id":109657,"date":"2020-12-12T16:12:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T23:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109657"},"modified":"2020-12-12T16:13:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T23:13:45","slug":"a-message-from-the-wind-that-howls-and-blows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/12\/a-message-from-the-wind-that-howls-and-blows\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message from the Wind that howls and blows"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Garvin Karunaratne \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/clericalchick.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/strong-winds.jpg\" alt=\"See the source image\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Two decades ago, <br>Motoring up Altamont Pass in California <br>I gazed at thousands of Wind Turbines. <br>It was the Californian Wind churning power for the USA.<br>I could hardly believe my eyes.<br>Once five centuries ago,<br>It was the\u00a0 Wind that took Vas Co de Gama across the Cape of Good Hope,<br>But not in Sri Lanka<br>Where at Ramboda, Madugoda, at Hayes <br>The wind howls blowing us off the roads<br>Once in the Fifties, living in Hambantota<br>My evening walks were all to enjoy the sea breeze<br>The Winds wafted and soothed me; never blew me off<br>It is this evening breeze that wafts the turbines at Mannar and Puttlam<br>Our big wigs are happy with 100MW<br>It is sad that we do not site our turbines<br>Where the Wind howls and blows<br>Instead, let the wind blow through<br>Let Sri Lanka import fuel for power<br>Continue getting more and more into foreign debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Garvin Karunaratne, author of <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wind Power for Sri Lanka.s Energy\nRequirements(2019)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>11\/12\/2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Garvin Karunaratne \u00a0 Two decades ago, Motoring up Altamont Pass in California I gazed at thousands of Wind Turbines. It was the Californian Wind churning power for the USA.I could hardly believe my eyes.Once five centuries ago,It was the\u00a0 Wind that took Vas Co de Gama across the Cape of Good Hope,But not in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-garvin-karunaratne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}