{"id":155054,"date":"2026-03-08T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=155054"},"modified":"2026-03-08T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:46:09","slug":"wind-power-the-power-available-to-us-which-cannot-be-undone-by-world-calamities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/03\/08\/wind-power-the-power-available-to-us-which-cannot-be-undone-by-world-calamities\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind power: The Power available to us which cannot be undone by world calamities."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Garvin Karunaratne\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;It is very likely that coal and oil will reach a high price due to political turmoil that has already commenced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka is blessed with wind power and I have been writing papers and even a book detailing how we can develop wind power overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May the authorities consider what I have said in my endless articles that are available in Lanka Web and Muck Rack.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I enclose one of my papers for kind reading by the authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you cannot find anyone to commence action, I will volunteer to establish a programme that will produce all the power we need within&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garvin Karunaratne&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>former SLAS,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ph D. Michigan State University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I established the Youth Self Employment Programme of Bangladesh in eighteen months. This Programme is bringing thousands to be self employed even today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lankaweb-com wp-block-embed-lankaweb-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"081qDHrbvp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/12\/16\/wind-power-that-abounds-in-our-hills\/\">Wind Power that abounds in our hills<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Wind Power that abounds in our hills&#8221; &#8212; LankaWeb.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/12\/16\/wind-power-that-abounds-in-our-hills\/embed\/#?secret=iIeX38XWnY#?secret=081qDHrbvp\" data-secret=\"081qDHrbvp\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garvin Karunaratne\u00a0 &nbsp;It is very likely that coal and oil will reach a high price due to political turmoil that has already commenced. Sri Lanka is blessed with wind power and I have been writing papers and even a book detailing how we can develop wind power overnight. May the authorities consider what I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155054","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\/155054","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=155054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155055,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155054\/revisions\/155055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}