{"id":119779,"date":"2021-10-30T16:32:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T23:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=119779"},"modified":"2021-10-30T16:32:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T23:32:11","slug":"to-remind-our-leaders-what-we-need-today-wind-power-to-save-forex-spent-on-fuel-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/30\/to-remind-our-leaders-what-we-need-today-wind-power-to-save-forex-spent-on-fuel-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"To remind our leaders what we need today: Wind Power to save forex spent on fuel imports."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Garvin Karunaratne<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>All we need is a few thousand wind turbines sited at Madugoda, at Ramboda, at Ohiya. at Haputale- at places where there is ample wind power, not sited on the coast to run with the evening breeze.\u00a0 It will create employment for hundreds and all with little foreign exchange to import only the turbine mechanism. Even that I am dead cert that Jinasena Pumps can make it locally. It can all be done within a year if we work at the pace our men\u00a0 worked\u00a0 at the GODB- Gal Oya Development Board in the early Fifties<br>I repeat my earlier message:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Message from the Wind that howls and blows<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Posted on December 12th, 2020 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>By Garvin Karunaratne &nbsp;<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/clericalchick.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/strong-winds.jpg\" alt=\"See the source image\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Two decades ago,<br>\nMotoring up Altamont Pass in California<br>\nI gazed at thousands of Wind Turbines.<br>\nIt was the Californian Wind churning power for the USA.<br>\nI could hardly believe my eyes.<br>\nOnce five centuries ago,<br>\nIt was the&nbsp; Wind that took Vas Co de Gama across the Cape of Good Hope,<br>\nBut not in Sri Lanka<br>\nWhere at Ramboda, Madugoda, at Hayes<br>\nThe wind howls blowing us off the roads<br>\nOnce in the Fifties, living in Hambantota<br>\nMy evening walks were all to enjoy the sea breeze<br>\nThe Winds wafted and soothed me; never blew me off<br>\nIt is this evening breeze that wafts the turbines at Mannar and Puttlam<br>\nOur big wigs are happy with 100MW<br>\nIt is sad that we do not site our turbines<br>\nWhere the Wind howls and blows<br>\nInstead, let the wind blow through<br>\nLet Sri Lanka import fuel for power<br>\nContinue getting more and more into foreign debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Garvin Karunaratne, author\nof<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wind Power for Sri Lanka&#8217;s Energy Requirements(2019)<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Garvin Karunaratne All we need is a few thousand wind turbines sited at Madugoda, at Ramboda, at Ohiya. at Haputale- at places where there is ample wind power, not sited on the coast to run with the evening breeze.\u00a0 It will create employment for hundreds and all with little foreign exchange to import only [&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-119779","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\/119779","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=119779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}