{"id":122175,"date":"2022-01-16T16:20:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T23:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122175"},"modified":"2022-01-16T16:20:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T23:20:18","slug":"to-remind-our-leaders-what-we-need-today-wind-power-to-save-forex-spent-on-fuel-imports-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/16\/to-remind-our-leaders-what-we-need-today-wind-power-to-save-forex-spent-on-fuel-imports-2\/","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>Today it is reported that we do not have enough dollars tro buy coal and oil to produce electricty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All we\nneed is a few thousand wind turbines sited at Madugoda, at Ramboda, at Ohiya.\nat Haputale- at places where there is ample wind power, not sited on the coast\nto run with the evening breeze.&nbsp; It will create employment for hundreds\nand all with little foreign exchange to import only the turbine mechanism. Even\nthat I am dead cert that Jinasena Pumps can make it locally. It can all be done\nwithin a year if we work at the pace our men&nbsp; worked&nbsp; at the GODB-\nGal Oya Development Board in the early Fifties<br>\nI repeat my earlier message:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Message from\nthe Wind that howls and blows<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Posted\non December 12th, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>By Garvin\nKarunaratne &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\ndecades 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\nGarvin Karunaratne, author of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wind Power for Sri Lanka\u2019s Energy\nRequirements(2019)<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Garvin Karunaratne Today it is reported that we do not have enough dollars tro buy coal and oil to produce electricty. 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 [&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-122175","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\/122175","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=122175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}